Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize 2025
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Judge: Ellen Bass
Winner receives $1000 Chapbook published as print book 20 Author Copies An amethyst depression glass trophy (circa 1930). 2024 Winner: Zachary Kluckman for WHEN I SAY GHOST, I DON'T MEAN DEAD chosen by Oliver de la Paz (publication in Fall 2025) 2023 Winner: Andrew Robin for LETTERS, UNWRITTEN chosen by Eduardo C. Corral 2022 Winner: Majda Gama for THE CALL OF PARADISE chosen by Diane Seuss 2021 Winner: Saúl Hernández for AT NIGHT MY BODY WAITS chosen by Victoria Chang 2020 Winner: Meg Griffitts for HALLUCINATING A HOMESTEAD chosen by Traci Brimhall 2019 Winner: Christopher Salerno for DEATHBED SEXT chosen by Maggie Smith 2018 Winner: Stella Wong for AMERICAN ZERO chosen by Danez Smith 2017 Winner: Hiwot Adilow for IN THE HOUSE OF MY FATHER chosen by Kaveh Akbar 2016 Winner: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha for ARAB IN NEWSLAND chosen by January Gill O'Neil 2015 Winner: Jasmine An for NAMING THE NO-NAME WOMAN chosen by Keetje Kuipers 2014 Winner: Cecilia Woloch for EARTH chosen by Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
Ellen Bass’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A Chancellor Emerita of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz, California jails, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
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Two Sylvias Press 2025 Chapbook Prize GUIDELINES
Please read carefully and follow the guidelines as listed below:
Please read carefully and follow the guidelines as listed below:
- Electronic submissions only (by way of twosylviaschapbookprize@gmail.com - you will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. If you do not receive the confirmation, please resubmit. Don't forget to check your SPAM folder).
- Simultaneous submissions accepted. Please notify Two Sylvias Press immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
- Individual poems may be previously published.
- 17-24 pages of poetry (not including title page, table of contents, end notes).
- You may submit more than one manuscript for consideration. Submit additional manuscript(s) in a separate email(s) and include submission fee(s).
- In the body of email, include short bio, manuscript title, page length, author's name, address, email, and acknowledgements of previous published poems, if any.
- Attach your manuscript as an MS Word doc and email to: twosylviaschapbookprize@gmail.com
- Your name should not appear anywhere in or on the manuscript.
- Email subject line should include your last name, chapbook title, and the year, 2025.
- Reading Fee: $18.
- Payment method: Paypal (PayPal buttons below) or check payable to Two Sylvias Press (Two Sylvias Press, PO Box 1524, Kingston, WA 98346). Please include chapbook title on check.
- Entry Dates: February 1, 2025 – May 31, 2025 (Midnight Hawaiian Island time).
- Winner receives $1000, 20 author copies of print chapbook, and a 1930's depression glass trophy,
- The winning chapbook will be published in print format.
- Chapbooks published by Two Sylvias Press are perfect-bound with a high-quality matte finish (6 x 9). Please see the winning chapbooks from: 2022 (Majda Gama), 2021 (Saul Hernandez), 2020 (Meg Griffitts), 2019 (Christopher Salerno), 2018 (Stella Wong), 2017 (Hiwot Adilow), 2016 (Lena Khalaf Tuffaha), 2015 (Jasmine An), and 2014 (Cecilia Woloch).
- Winner will be announced by September, 2025
- All chapbook entries will be considered for publication.
- Also note, we do not disqualify manuscripts for errors or mistakes. We err on the side of the poet and if we have any questions about your manuscript (i.e. the formatting comes through incorrectly) or if you're missing something we need, we'll contact you.
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OR mail a check payable to Two Sylvias Press to: Two Sylvias Press, PO Box 1524, Kingston, WA 98346
Please include chapbook title on check.
Please include chapbook title on check.
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