2024 Debut Chapbook Prize
July 1, 2024, to September 1, 2024
At Frontier Poetry, our mission is to create a space for new and emerging poets to have their voice heard. One way we are aiming to uphold this mission is through our Debut Chapbook Contest. This contest is an opportunity for emerging poets to submit their unpublished chapbook or manuscript of up to thirty pages of poetry. We are excited to read through your wonderful contemplations, nuances, emotions, and truths. The way we see it, your poetry is like a puzzle and we look forward to seeing how you put the pieces together. All kinds of poetry are welcome; we set no formal or aesthetic requirements, and we invite manuscripts that still need polishing. Please follow the guidelines below. The contest is open from July 1, 2024, until September 1, 2024, and the winners will be announced sometime in late fall or early winter and published fall of 2025.
The winner will receive $2,000 and publication, which includes a free, downloadable digital chapbook on our website, fifty physical author copies to share and sell, and the option to enable drop-shipping sales at Amazon, Bookshop.org, and Barnes & Noble, earning 50% royalties on your chapbook. Additionally, tens of thousands of readers, editors, and magazines will receive chapbook access through our newsletter. We aim for this award to be a springboard for your poetic career.
Guest Judge Nancy Miller Gomez will select the winner this year from ten finalists curated by our editorial team.
Guidelines:
For this contest, we are specifically looking for poets with no prior chapbook, manuscript, or full-length collection of poetry published or forthcoming prior to this contest.
Writers from historically marginalized groups are welcome to submit for a reduced fee until we reach our cap of fifty. No additional fee waivers will be granted.
The manuscript should be fifteen to thirty pages of poems, not including front and back matter.
The manuscript should be unpublished as a whole, although individual poems may be previously published.
Do not include any identifying information in the manuscript itself or in the file name.
Please put any acknowledgements in the cover letter field of Submittable and not in the manuscript.
Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English. Inclusion of other languages, such as in code-switching/meshing, is welcome, as long as the poem is primarily in English.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please notify us immediately if the chapbook is accepted elsewhere.
Multiple submissions are allowed, but each manuscript must be submitted separately with the $25 reading fee.
Work generated by AI will be automatically disqualified.
Winners and finalists will be announced late fall or early winter of 2024.
Submit your entry here.
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