Contest

Chapbook Prize 2024: Winners

October 28, 2024 by The Poetry Box

We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2024 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you in February 2025. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our seventh annual contest.

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Donna Hilbert!

Winners:

GRAND PRIZE
Flavian Mark Lupinetti (New Mexico) for The Pronunciation Part
(selected by Guest Judge, Donna Hilbert)

EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARD
Laura Foley (New Hampshire) for Ice Cream for Lunch: A Grandparents Handbook
(selected by Shawn Aveningo Sanders)

DESIGNER’S CHOICE AWARD
Allison Thorpe (Kentucky) for A Girl, Her Slipper and Yesterday’s Rainbow
(selected by Robert Sanders)

Finalists:

Amy Baskin (Oregon) for Skull

Abby Caplin (California) for Blue Marble

Meredith Kirkwood (Oregon) for Alertness Seems Called For

Robin Michel (California)
for Crossing a Threshold into the Marriage of Our Two Selves

Gus Peterson (Maine) for Undiagnosed

Shawn Pittard (California) for Witness

Stephen Reilly (Florida) for Widower

Trinity Tibe (Georgia)

for My Blood Must Have Something to Do with Me

(We will be open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2024)

Chapbook Prize 2023: Winners

January 2, 2024 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you in February. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our third annual contest.

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Andrea Hollander!

FIRST PLACE

Richard Jordan
of Massachusetts
for
The Squannacook at Dawn

Details about her book HERE

front book cover of The Squannacook at Dawn

cr: Greg Hoyle

SECOND PLACE

Kirsten Morgan
of Colorado
for
Inside Out

Details about her book HERE

image of woman outside wearing a hat — photo cr: Sarah Sargent

THIRD PLACE

Carol Barrett
of Bend, Oregon
for
Reading Wind

Details about her book HERE

Finalists:

The Mother/Daughter Papers by Gail Rudd Entrekin (CA)

Currents for Jellyfish by Briana Fischella (FL)

Journey of Trees by Susan Landgraf (WA)

The Last Angels by Richard Lyons (TN)

Now Is What Matters by Janet Steward (WA)

Beguiled by Ingrid Wendt (OR)

The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dogen by James K. Zimmerman (NY)

Rescue Dogs by Fred Zirm (MD)

(We will be open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2024)

Chapbook Prize 2022: Winners

July 10, 2022 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2022 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our third annual contest.

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, James Crews!

FIRST PLACE

Rosalie Sanara Petrouske
of Grand Ledge, Michigan
for
Tracking the Fox

Details about her book HERE

SECOND PLACE

Michael S. Glaser
of Hillsborough, North Carolina
for
Elemental Things

Details about her book HERE

front cover Elemental Things — Cover design: Robert Sanders

photo of Suzy Harris — photo by Mike Yonts

THIRD PLACE

Suzy Harris
of Portland, Oregon
for
Listening in the Dark

Details about her book HERE

front cover of Listening in the Dark — Cover design: Robert Sanders

Finalists:

Devon Balwit of Portland, OR for Teaching Is a Bloody Business

Luanne Castle of Phoenix, AZ for Our Wolves

Margaret Chula of Portland, OR for Weeding the Labyrinth

Mary Cronin of Harwich, MA for Unity Hospital

Matthew Farr of Centennial, CO for Endure Until Dead

Susan Johnson of Roslyn, WA for The Call Home

Becky Dennison Sakellariou of Petersborough, NH for Until the Tree Grows, Towering

Penelope Scambly Schott of Dufur, OR for gOD

(We will be open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2023)

Chapbook Prize 2021: Winners

July 1, 2021 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our third annual contest.

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Annie Lighthart!

Mary Warren Foulk_Headshot 2021(cr. Jay Miller-Foulk) — cr. Jay Miller-Foulk

FIRST PLACE

Mary Warren Foulk of Amherst, MA
for
Erasures of My Coming Out (letter)

Details about her book HERE

photo of Linda Ferguson — cr. Fiona Ferguson

SECOND PLACE

Linda Ferguson of Portland, OR
for
Of the Forest

Details about her book HERE

THIRD PLACE

Tricia Knoll of Williston, VT
for
Let’s Hear It for the Horses

Details about her book HERE

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Finalists:

Melissa Balmain of Rochester, NY
for Satan Talks to His Therapist: The Lighter Side of a Year in Hell

Beth Bonness of Portland, OR
for Transition Thunderstorms

Anne Coray of Port Alsworth, AK
for Late Fall Bucolics

Ann Farley of Beaverton, OR
for Tell Her Yes

Mimi German of Portland, OR
for Eyes of Horse Hair
retitled/published as Beneath the Gravel Weight of Stars

David Kann of Walnut Creek, CA
for Forward Spotter

Juan Pablo Mobili of Valley Cottage, NY
for Contraband

Penelope Scambly Schott of Dufur & Portland, OR
for Inside the Green Birdhouse

Ben Sloan of Charlottesville, VA
for The Snow in Poland, 1942

(We will be open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2022)

Chapbook Prize 2020: Winners

June 14, 2020 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Amy Miller!

FIRST PLACE

Tiel Aisha Ansari
of Portland, OR

for
The Day of My First Driving Lesson

Learn more about Tiel’s winning chapbook HERE

SECOND PLACE

Marcia B. Loughran
of Astoria, NY

for
My Mother Never Died Before & Other Poems

Learn more about Marcia’s winning chapbook HERE

THIRD PLACE

C.W. Emerson
of Palm Springs, CA

for
Off Coldwater Canyon

Learn more about C.W’s winning chapbook HERE

Other Finalists:

Kathy Ackerman of Rutherford, NC for Repeat After Me

Dan Clark of Kennewick, WA for Some Otherwhere

Michael S. Glaser of St. Mary’s City, MD for What the Ocean Knows

Marilyn Johnston of Salem, OR for When I Could Climb Free

Linda Johnston Muhlhausen of Red Bank, NJ for White

J.I. Kleinberg of Bellingham, WA for The Word for Standing Alone in a Field

Michelle Lerner of Flanders, NJ for Protection

Christopher Luna of Vancouver, WA for Secret Teacher
published as full-length collection, Exchanging Wisdom

Deborah Meltvedt of Sacramento, CA for California Girl-Woman
published as Building a Woman

Dianne Stepp of Portland, OR for Braced for Landing

(We will open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2021)

Chapbook Prize 2019: Winners

May 31, 2019 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

We are very excited to announce the winners and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our second annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions we received from all over the country, making our decision joyously difficult!

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Tricia Knoll!

FIRST PLACE

Lauren Tiven of St. Augustine, Florida for Moroccan Holiday

SECOND PLACE

Christine Higgins of Towson, Maryland for Hello, Darling

THIRD PLACE

Debbie Hall of Escondido, California for Falling Into the River

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Other Finalists:

Carie Juettner of Austin, Texas for Death Can’t Sleep

Julia Paul of Manchester, Connecticut for Staring Down the Tracks

Allison Thorpe of Lexington, Kentucky for By the Light of Women

Margaret Chula of Portland, Oregon for In the Shadows
published as Shadow Man

Zeina Azzam of Alexandria, Virginia for Bayna, Bayna

Nancy Hewitt of Swampscott, Massachusetts for This Slanted Scene

Martin Willits of Syracuse, New York for The Miles Before Sleep

Leonard Neufeldt of Gig Harbor, Washington for More-than-Human Nearness

John Davis of Bainbridge Island, Washington for Downhill Edge

Calvin Olsen of Chapel Hill, South Carolina for Grounded

Jed Myers of Seattle, Washington for Word of our Crossing

Victoria Nordlund of South Glastonbury, Connecticut for Homer Saw a Wine-Dark Sea

(We will open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2020)

2nd Annual Chapbook Prize Opens Today

February 1, 2019 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

Submissions Open Feb 1 thru Feb 28

Last year, we held our first Poetry Box Chapbook Prize competition and were blown away by a windfall of quality, thought-provoking, emotionally riveting poetry by writers from across the nation. Now, it’s time to do it all over again.

I’m thrilled to announce that this year’s judge will be Tricia Knoll, an amazing, award-winning poet who’s been a frequent contributor to The Poeming Pigeon and author of Broadfork Farm, published by The Poetry Box in 2017. You can learn more about what’s she’s been up to since moving to Vermont at TriciaKnoll.com.

Winners will receive the following:

1st Prize: $300 plus 20 copies of published chapbook
PLUS distribution of their winning title to all contest entrants.

2nd Prize: $100 plus 10 copies of their published chapbook.

3rd Prize: $50 plus 5 copies of their published chapbook.

See Last Year’s Winners & Complete Submission Details HERE

Chapbook Prize 2018: Winners

May 31, 2018 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

Looking for the current contest? Go to the link below:

https://thepoetrybox.com/the-poetry-box-chapbook-prize-2023

We are very excited to announce the winners and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our first annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions we received from all over the country, making our decision joyously difficult!

FIRST PLACE

Judy Mosher of Santa Fe, NM
for
Shrinking Bones

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SECOND PLACE

Penelope Scambly Schott of Portland, OR
for
November Quilt

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Tied for THIRD PLACE

Christopher Bogart of Eatontown, NJ
for
14: Antología del Sonoran

Gudrun Bortman of Santa Barbara, CA
for
Fireweed

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Other Finalists:

Clela Reed of Athens, Georgia
Silk

Dianne Avey of Anderson Island, Washington
Impossible Ledges

Lynn DeTurk of La Quinta, California
Kaddish: A Song for Two

Pamela R. Anderson of Munroe Falls, Ohio
Tap Dancing

Sally Zakariya of Arlington, Virginia
Other Voices, Other Lives
published as The Unknowable Lives of Other People

Tiel Aisha Ansari of Portland, Oregon
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare’s Stable

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Winners will receive the following:

See Last Year’s Winners & Complete Submission Details HERE

Looking for the current contest? Go to the link below:

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(We will open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2019)

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