The Sarabande Chapbook prize

SUBMIT september 1 - 30

In celebration of Sarabande’s 30th anniversary, the inaugural Sarabande Chapbook Prize will be awarded to two winners from our 2024 submission period. The prize includes $1,000, publication, and a standard royalty contract.

Genre

We’re looking for traditional poetry chapbooks and hybrid/experimental projects. (For examples of hybrid projects we’ve loved, see Hotel Almighty, Team Photograph, Thot, Bright, White Bull, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause, and more.)

ELIGIBILITY

This Sarabande Chapbook Prize is open to any poet or writer of English. Employees and board members of Sarabande are not eligible. Translations and previously published collections are not eligible. Works that have previously appeared in part in magazines or in anthologies may be included.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

• Manuscript must be anonymous

• Manuscript must be typed, standard font, 12 pt., paginated

• Between 20-30 pages, single spaced

• Must be accompanied by a $25 submission fee

• Must be submitted electronically through Submittable

Multiple submissions are permitted if submitted separately, each with a submission fee. Edits to submissions will not be permitted, but any publications resulting from this contest will undergo a full editorial and copyedit. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are permitted, but please withdraw your manuscript if accepted elsewhere.