We have teamed up with The Poets Corner and the Camden Festival of Poetry to offer the 2024 Chapbook Contest
with distinguished poet, Marie Howe, as the contest judge.
Submissions are OPEN and close on February 29th.
The winner of the 2024 Chapbook Contest will receive a $1,000 prize, and the winning chapbook will be designed, printed and published by Toad Hall Editions. The winner will also receive 20 copies of the printed edition. A reading with the contest winner is planned for The Poets Corner on Sunday, June 9th, with an introduction by our distinguished juror Marie Howe.
What is a chapbook you might ask? In poetry, a chapbook is smaller in size than a full-length manuscript (20-40 pages) and usually related around a theme. For this contest, it is limited to 28 pages of poems.
Contest Details:
Entries can be submitted from January 2 to February 29, through Submittable.
Contest is open to all submissions of a chapbook no more than 28 pages in length.
Submission fee is $28.00.
Poems may have previously been published in journals but not in a collection.
Submissions will be reviewed anonymously.
The winning chapbook will be designed, printed and published by Toad Hall Editions in a limited edition of 250 books. Toad Hall will maintain North American rights for publication.
The winner, selected by Marie Howe, will be announced at the Camden Festival of Poetry on May 18, 2024. A reading with the winner will take place on The Poets Corner on Zoom on June 9th.
Two additional chapbooks will be awarded an Honorable Mention and a prize of $250.
About Marie Howe
Marie Howe is the author of five volumes of poetry, New and Selected Poems, Magdalene: Poems, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, The Good Thief, and What the Living Do, and she is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. From 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State.
Listen to Marie Howe:
Reading Rilke Today: A Conversation with The Poets Corner
The Isolation Journals interview
The On Being interview
“Singularity (after Stephen Hawking)” by Marie Howe