Chapbook Contest
Judge: Ross White
January 13, 2020 - April 6, 2020
Prize: $250, 20 Author copies, Blurbs
Winner:
Jason B Crawford
Summertime Fine
Editors' Pick:
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle
Black Wick: Selected Elegies
Finalists:
Alice Wickenden To Fall Fable
Iris Litt Dangerous Territory poems on aging
Mark MacAllister The Field
Ray Ball Lararium
All contest Winners and Editors' Picks will receive a contract for publication.
Variant Literature Inc will provide everything from copyright to cover art and beyond so that there is no out of pocket expense to the author.
Open Mss Call
Judges: The Editors
September 1, 2020- October 31, 2020
Prize: Publication
Selections:
Danielle Rose The History of Mountains
Taylor Byas Bloodwarm
Beth Gordon The Water Cycle
Kevin Risner Do Us a Favor
Carroll Susco Bean Spiller
Gail DiMaggio Ironwork
Cori Lohstroh Living Monstes/Damaged Ghosts
Longlist:
Michael Giddings Caricatures
Brendan Walsh coffee jokes
Elizabeth Bluth Learning to Reconcile with the Enemy I Have Come to Think of as My Body
Mathew Serback Set Fire to Everything You Love
Barbara Alfaro Catbird
John Leonard Hunting Season: Poems
Emily Banks Our Last Luxury
Deirdre Danklin How To Start A Coven
Stephen St. Francis Decky Make the Bear Be Nice
Lindsey Schaffer City of Contradiction
Ea Anderson I Want to be This Girl
Robert Detman Building The Perfect Wings
Frank William Finney Cobwebs in the Cadillac and Other Poems
Rajendra Shepherd Moonlight Summer
Alex Adams Ratcatcher
Peter Stavros (Mostly) True Tales from Birchwood Village
Shannon Wolf An Installation of What I Left Behind
Joe Baumann Orbit and Other Places I'd Rather Be
Richard-Yves Sitoski Essential Tremor
Jacqueline Bédard Human, Too
Sarah Kersey Anacrusis
Preston Smith Beneath Honeysuckle Rum
Paula Harris pussybroken
Lannie Stabile On Pennsylvania Road
Shannon Frost Greenstein The American Versailles
Microchap Contest
Judge: Lannie Stabile
June 1, 2021 - July 1, 2021
Prize: $150 + 150 limited print run