Chapbook Competitions: Paper Nautilus

Paper Nautilus is holding their annual chapbook contests. The Vella contest seeks the following:
– Manuscripts between 16 – 24 pages. 

 

– Open to poetry, fiction, and mixed- or hybrid-genre works (prose poems, flash fiction, lyrical essays, short-shorts, a short story sandwiched between a dozen poems, one long-ish short story, 24 pages of poems, and any other combination that might be missing in this list).
– Please include a title page, a table of contents, and an acknowledgements page (not included in page count).
– Thematically-linked works are encouraged, but not required. Quality is the only criteria.
– Collection as a whole must be unpublished, but individual publications are fine.
– Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please withdraw it immediately if someone else snatches up your amazing work before we do.

 

– Prize: 100 perfect-bound copies of your winning chapbook, ISBN included, to use however you’d like (sell them, give them away, make a modern art installation in your living room, etc.) Paper Nautilus will be selling an additional limited number of copies through our website or at literary events - for which the winner will receive 10% royalties - but the rest are yours. 

 

– No pre-sale or purchase requirements; no sales pressure on the author to promote.

 

 – Entry fee: $11, payable through Submittable.
– Entry period: February 15th – May 15th, 2016.
– Expected announcement of winner: (approximately) August 1st, 2016.
– Expected date of publication: (approximately) January 2017.
– Recent winners include Jason McCall, Allie Marini, Stephanie McCarley Dugger, Charles Rafferty, and others. 

 

– Contest entries will be judged by Lisa Mangini, Paper Nautilus Editor in Chief.

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Paper Nautilus is holding their annual chapbook contests. The Debut Series contest seeks the following:
– Manuscripts between 16 – 24 pages from writers who have not yet published a full-length manuscript or chapbook in any genre. 

 

– Open to poetry, fiction, and mixed- or hybrid-genre works (prose poems, flash fiction, lyrical essays, short-shorts, a short story sandwiched between a dozen poems, one long-ish short story, 24 pages of poems, and any other combination that might be missing in this list). 

 

– Please include a title page, a table of contents, and an acknowledgements page (not included in page count).
– Thematically-linked works are encouraged, but not required. Quality is the only criteria.
– Collection as a whole must be unpublished, but individual publications are fine.
– Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please withdraw it immediately if someone else snatches up your amazing work before we do.

 

– Prize: 50 hand-bound copies of your winning chapbook, to use however you’d like (sell them, give them away, make a modern art installation in your living room, etc.) Paper Nautilus will be selling an additional limited number of copies through our website or at literary events - for which the winner will receive 10% royalties - but the rest are yours. 

 

– No pre-sale or purchase requirements; no sales pressure on the author to promote.

 

– Entry fee: $5, payable through Submittable (http://bit.ly/1VKiaB4).
– Entry period: February 15th – May 15th, 2016.
– Expected announcement of winner: (approximately) August 1st, 2016.
– Expected date of publication: (approximately) January 2017.
– Recent winners include Bernard Grant, Emily Moore, and Emily Webber. 

 

– Contest entries will be judged by Lisa Mangini, Paper Nautilus Editor inChief