OutWrite holds an annual chapbook competition, in partnership with D.C.-based small press Neon Hemlock Press, which publishes the winning chapbooks. See the winners below.
2022
Our 2022 chapbook winners will be published by Neon Hemlock Press in December. Pre-order the 2022 winning chapbooks.
Fiction: The End, as Seen from the Tip of the Indian Peninsula by M.L. Krishnan
judged by Brent Lambert
Nonfiction: A Study in Our Selves by Max Pasakorn
judged by Joseph Osmundson
Poetry: Shakespeares in the Ghetto by Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
judged by Saida Agostini
2021
Purchase the 2021 winning chapbooks.
Fiction: Dancing in the Silver Lands by Mari Ness
judged by Darcie Little Badger
Nonfiction: For When the Shapes Keep Changing by Hannah Soyer
judged by Chris Gonzalez
Poetry: Good Boi by Jason B. Crawford
judged by Dena Rod
See the 2021 chapbook winners read below:
2020
Fiction: When We’re Done Here by Paula Molina Acosta
judged by Rivers Solomon
Nonfiction: Cross Cutting by Charles Jensen
judged by Tyrese Coleman
Poetry: Strange Furniture by Lannie Stabile
judged by Faylita Hicks
2019
Fiction: The West & Everything Above by Brendan Williams-Childs
judged by JY Yang
Nonfiction: Heretic to Housewife by Rahne Alexander
judged by Kristen Arnett
Poetry: boy if by Carlito Espudo
judged by Wo Chan Fiction