2018 Subbed In Chapbook Prize finalists announced

We had an overwhelming response to the callout with more than 100 entries. We were staggered by the quality of the submissions received and after much deliberation managed to narrow the list of finalists down to 14.

Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, EssaySubbed In5 September 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, poems, experimental, chapbook prize, 2018, finalists, old1

City Exchange

Poetry ∙ "Twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five”

PoetryBrianna Bullen4 September 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, poems, Sheena Colquhoun, brianna bullen, city exchange, old1

Typeface Truths

Poetry ∙ Visual Art ∙ “The rain falls in ropes.”

Poetry, Visual ArtJordan Roux2 September 2018ibis house, subbed in, jordan roux, zine, typeface truths, poetry, visual art, art, blackout poem, old1

Grape Soup

Fiction ∙ "I hold air inside my hand, and I look very closely and try to see what is inside of it."

FictionLily Golightly28 August 2018ibis house, subbed in, short story, fiction, lily golightly, grape soup, old1

THE NEXT TRAIN TO DEPART IBIS HOUSE

Fiction ∙ Video Game ∙ "The Ghost House was on land that used to be an orchard, you're not sure if it's been developed yet but you know it wasn't when you were a kid."

Fiction, Video GameTegan Webb23 August 2018ibis house, subbed in, fiction, tegan webb, twine, video game, interactive, train, interactive story, old1

Terror Australis

Fiction ∙ "My company makes a killing sourcing out our sustainable, up-cycled crosses to the federal government."

At the Opening • Pantoum for Roadkill

2 Poems ∙ "Spend my days peeling stickers from glass / My eyes green spies when rash / I am only on call for collision”

A Hammer Will Fall

Fiction ∙ "He couldn’t say exactly when he’d had the idea of breaking in, but somewhere he’d been told that spark plugs could break a window without making a sound."

FictionMaris Depers15 August 2018ibis house, subbed in, short story, maris depers, a hammer will fall, wollongong, old1

Burrow of Peridot and Sunshine Magazine

Fiction ∙ "New variations on the traditional understanding of the universe are explored through a synergistic blend of spaghetti remnants on corrugated picked cat fur."

Flushing Frontiers

Non-Fiction ∙ "Equality never came."

Non-fictionKai Schweizer14 August 2018ibis house, subbed in, short story, kai schweizer, flushing frontiers, trans, perth, old1

Goths Just Wanna Have Fun • All The Small Things

2 Poems ∙ "I’m excited for all the small things / like wearing a floral dress outside / in the summer for the first time / and I’m not going to let something small / like a penis stop me from being a woman”

ravel rousers

Visual Art ∙ "ravel rousers"

Visual ArtPaula Abul31 July 2018ibis house, subbed in, paula abul, art, artwork, illustration, old1, old2

Au Naturel

Fiction ∙ "A naked woman, metaphor had taught me, was either a weakness or a strength. She might be a panther or a worm, depending on the book that you were reading, but a naked man just was, like a rock pool: as neutral as the Swiss."

FictionYen Radecki22 July 2018ibis house, subbed in, fiction, Yen Radecki, short story, au naturel, old1, old2

The other day I saw an old friend. She said, ‘How are you?’ I said, ‘I’m good. How are you?’ She said, ‘I’m good, too.’ Then we went our separate ways.

Fiction ∙ "A friend’s father’s moonshine rearranges my insides, makes me vomit up the sun."

FictionJennifer Nguyen8 July 2018ibis house, subbed in, fiction, jennifer nguyen, old1, old2

The girl of your dreams finds the god of death on the toilet • I boast about my strip club earnings just before I cry (Ghazal-esque)

Poetry ∙ "The oldest woman warns me: tell him nothing. She / would know, her lips pulled tight by the gray thread of age.”

PoetryRax King5 July 2018ibis house, subbed in, poetry, poem, poems, tonka, rax king, old1, old2

A Spell to Exorcise a Bad Housemate • Tonka • Musée des Frisson

Poetry ∙ "While you mix with your wand hand, call up your preferred real estate blog with the other. Invoke the well-lit corners: the warm and untouched homes of northside, east, west, southside, and Grand Designs.”

Open Letter To Whichever Able-Bodied Nerd Hacked My Cybernetic Leg Braces

Fiction ∙ "Dear Able-Bodied Nerd, I first suspected something was up when my cybernetic leg braces started playing “These Boots Are Made For Walking” by Nancy Sinatra every 100 steps I took."