Essay Press 2021 Chapbook Contest Submissions are open until December 1.
Essay Press is hosting a chapbook contest through December 1, to be judged by Sasha Steensen! We’re particularly excited to publish chapbooks that extend or challenge the formal possibilities of prose, including but not limited to: lyric essays and prose poems or poetics; experimental biography and autobiography; innovative approaches to journalism; interdisciplinary historiography, criticism, scholarship, and philosophy. Simultaneous submissions, multiple submissions, collaborative manuscripts, translations, and digital and hybridized text/art manuscripts are all welcome. Submissions will ideally be between 15 and 40 pages, but slightly shorter or longer is fine. You are welcome to submit an excerpt from a longer work, a collection of texts, or a single essay that is too long for journal publication but too short for full-length book publication. You may include a brief author bio and/or cover letter along with your submission, but this is not required. Publication decisions are expected to be finished by the end of February, and accepted chapbooks will appear in 2022 or 2023. Authors will receive 25 author copies of their chapbook and a $250 honorarium. The reading fee is $10, or $15 to receive a copy of a previously published Essay Press book, for those in the United States. For those living internationally, if you would like to enter the contest and receive an EP book, please contact Meagan Wilson at m.essaypress@gmail.com. If the submission fee is prohibitive, particularly for LGBTQ+ and/or BIPOC writers who wish their work to be considered for this contest, please contact us at essaypress@gmail.com about a fee waiver. Questions about the contest can be sent to essaypress@gmail.com.
ABOUT THE JUDGE
Sasha Steensen is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Gatherest (Ahsahta Press) and Every Thing Awake (forthcoming Shearsman Press). Recent essays and hybrid work can be found at Essay Press, Interim, Tupelo Quarterly and Evening Will Come. She teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Colorado State University where she also serves as a poetry editor for Colorado Review. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her husband, two daughters, flock of chickens, two standard poodles and a very fierce barn cat. |
