Entries for 2018 Subbed In Chapbook Prize are now closed
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Thank you everyone who submitted to the 2018 Subbed In Chapbook Prize! We received almost 100 manuscripts and can't wait to dive in and read your work. We'll be announcing our new chapbook(s) in September π
Last year's winners
Here's a book that holds you close and says βitβs okay, things are weirdβ. Alli's poetry explores what it takes to be in and amongst bodies, to be loving and empathetic in the internet age. Hope glimmers and shakes as Alli entwines tenderness and heartache, surfing dogs and estrogen pills. A debut collection that is instantly loveable; as eviscerating as it is gentle.
This remarkable debut collection pulls apart the threads of liminality and traces their paths across culture, family, and environment. Shah Idilβs experimental sense provides a transformative frame for an uncompromising lyricism, pushing outwards beyond the pages and prodding at the edges of memory and oblivion. Shah Idilβs work is magical and relentless, brimming with love.
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Crocker complicates home and family in her debut book, Girls and Buoyant. With sensitivity and wry observation, Crocker explores old suburbs and new loves at the intersections of intimate moments and where late capitalism pokes at our lives. This striking debut poetry collection presents an unflinching examination of life outside the margins of the urbanised middle class.