Poetry Chapbook Contest

The Choeofpleirn Press Jonathan Holden Poetry Chapbook Contest

 

This chapbook contest exists for those poets who have not yet published a chapbook or a full-length collection of poems. 


To enter, send 25 to 40 pages of poetry to choeofpleirnpress@gmail.com saved as one file. In your email, provide a 100-word, third person biography to be published along with your chapbook.


Pay the $20 contest fee through the Paypal payment box appearing below. Otherwise, your manuscript will not be considered.


All submitters for the contest who pay the contest fee receive an ebook copy of the winning chapbook (a $15 value).



The winning poet will receive 10 copies of the printed chapbook and $250.

 

This chapbook contest will be open from January 1, 2023 to April 30, 2023.  Deadline: Sunday, April 30, 2023 by 11:59 PM Central time.


Important details are:

We are looking for strong, literary poems, so we are not dictating any poetic genres. Send us your best.

Please realize that Choeofpleirn Press does not publish written works produced by AI, which the U.S. Copyright Office has deemed non-copyrightable.

*We will remove identifying information from your chapbook manuscript, including your name, the Acknowledgements page, and Word macros (which identify the individual's computer and, often, her/his/xis name) before we submit the manuscripts to our judge in order to maintain a "blind" reading to achieve unbiased results.

Anita Skeen, author of Never the Whole Story, The Resurrection of the Animals, Outside the Fold, Outside the Frame, and Each Hand a Map, has agreed to serve as the judge for our 2023 poetry chapbook contest.