Saturday, February 18, 2023

Writing Competition: The Cow Creek Chapbook Prize

The Cow Creek Chapbook Prize is a poetry chapbook contest brought to you by Pittsburg State University. We're open to all styles and subjects. As long as the poems challenge and capture the imagination, we want to see them.

The winning poet will receive $1,000 and 25 author copies. The chapbook will be published as a perfect bound book and sold both online and in limited bookstores.

The winner will be announced in October of 2023.

​This year's judge is chad abushanab. Chad is the author of The Last Visit, which won the 2018 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Sewanee Review, Ecotone, The Believer, Best New Poets, Southern Poetry Review, and many other publications. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Bemidji State University located in the northwoods of Minnesota. www.chadabushanab.com 

Guidelines:

Submit 15-30 pages of poetry with a $15 entry fee by May 15, 2023.

Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if the chapbook is accepted elsewhere.

Multiple submissions are fine, but each chapbook must be submitted separately.

It’s fine if individual poems have been previously published or if one is accepted over the course of the contest, but the arrangement of poems must be an original work.

Submissions are read blind, so please don’t include your name or other identifying information anywhere on the manuscript.

Past or present students of Pittsburg State University and individuals directly connected to the judge are not eligible to submit.

Submission portal and more information here.

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