Chapbook Prize 2018: Winners

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

SECOND PLACE

Tied for THIRD PLACE

&

Gudrun Bortman of Santa Barbara, CA
for
Fireweed

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

 

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