The annual Diode Editions Chapbook Contest is now open through August 15th, 2021. The contest is open to all poets over the age of 18 who write in English. Additionally, we welcome translations,* collaborations, hybrid works, and prose poetry.
Submission Guidelines
Please include:
- A title page with the title of your manuscript, your name, pronouns, address, telephone number and email.
- Your name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript.
- An acknowledgments page: poems included in your manuscript may be previously published as long as there is an acknowledgements page.
Additional Notes
- Length: 25-50 pages (front matter is not included in page count).
- Entries will be accepted between February 15th and August 15, 2021.
- A winner will be announced by August 30, 2021. We may publish more than one chapbook.
- The winning chapbook(s) will be published by March 1, and will be launched at the 2022 AWP Conference in Philadelphia.
- We accept simultaneous submissions, but if your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, please notify us as soon as possible.
*For manuscript submissions in languages other than English, please include an English translation for consideration.
There is an $18.00 reading fee. For those with financial constraints, please reach out to us at:
Winners will receive $500.00, 25 author copies, and select poems from the book will appear in Diode Poetry Journal. If the winner(s) can attend AWP, they will have an opportunity to participate in an off-site reading, and in signing sessions at the Diode Editions booth.
More information here.
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