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NEWEST INFO AND LINKS TO CONTEST GUIDELINES & RESULTS:
The 2022 Chapbook Contest Results are in! Note that the 2023 contest will open up in late 2022 (and has an April 2023 deadline).
After a lot of manuscript reading and cogitating and conversating, we're thrilled to announce the 2022 Chapbook Contest winner is MINESWEEPER by Jed Munson. Congrats to Jed, who will receive $1000 and publication in next year's series.
We'll also publish two of our other finalists this year:
FUGUE: AN AURAL HISTORY by Julie Marie Wade and SIZZLE by Eric Burger.
A word about our reading process: every manuscript was read closely and anonymously by at least two readers. The readers' favorites were sent on to the semifinalist stage, and from those we selected our finalists. Here's the list of the other finalist manuscripts:
- COUNTRY SONGS FOR ALICE by Emma Binder
- TO DO by Marietta Brill
- PAST MY BEDTIME by Jim Daniels
- APOGEE/PERIGEE by Leesa Dean
- UNIDENTIFIED FOUND OBJECT SONG by AB Gorham
- VESSELARIUM by Helen Hoffling & Gabriella Santiago-Vancak
- TRACE by Richard Lyons
- WAVE, CITY by Calgary Martin
- NEXT DOOR by Vince Montague
- SUMMER'S HOTTEST FLICK WAS IT: CHAPTER TWO by Iliria Osum
- O DEATH by Jeffrey Skinner
- AGGREGATE: OF WINDOWS by Abigail Swoboda
- SOMEWHAT UNREAL by Curtis VanDonkelaar
- BIN 000 by Derek White
The 2023 Chapbook Contest is now open for submission!
2023 Chapbook Contest Guidelines (Deadline
April 28, 2023
The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM chapbook contest announces our guidelines for 2022! We select the majority of our chapbook list each year from the ranks of the chapbook contest finalists, so this is the best way to get your work read. And what's more, it's all read blind. Plus you get a free chapbook just for entering and you get to know that your entry helps us do what we do.
The Prize |
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$1000 plus 25 author copies AND of course publication; finalist chapbooks also considered for publication (we typically published 3-6). |
The Entry Fee |
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$24 |
The Mailing Deadline |
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April 28, 2023 |
What we want |
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Interesting, lovely unpublished work (unpublished as a whole; individual pieces may be published already of course), prose or poetry or some combination or something between genres, 18-44 manuscript pages (no more than one poem per page if you're sending poems unless they are very, very short). |
Images okay? |
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Yes, as long as you can obtain reprint rights for any images you include, unless they're in the public domain or qualify under the exemption for fair use. We do prefer images be in low-res for the manuscript to keep file size down (the submissions manager maxes out at around 9 megabytes), but we'll need high-res versions if your manuscript is selected for publication. ALSO: please don't send originals of anything, since we cannot return manuscripts. |
Other questions? |
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It's fine with us if individual works have
been published elsewhere, but the manuscript can't have been published
as a whole before. Please include specific acknowledgments if any of the works have appeared elsewhere: tell
us where individual pieces appeared, as we do sometimes consider submitted and unpublished individual pieces for possible publication in DIAGRAM.
We recommend that your manuscript
be as coherent--as much a project--as possible. Not to say everything needs to be thematic or narratively related, but most of our winning chapbooks have a feeling of aesthetic unity or connection or resonance: we think chapbooks should make sense as chapbooks, and be more than the sums of their parts. Chapbook manuscripts do not necessarily
have to be diagrammatic (though the diagrammers among us do enjoy
those).
Co-authored manuscripts are fine.
Submitting multiple manuscripts is fine with entry fees for each.
Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you let us know ASAP if a manuscript needs to be withdrawn.
Please don't put your name/identifying info on the piece itself. If you send electronically, it'll be in the submitter info only, and that doesn't get forward to our readers. If you send via the mail, include a detachable cover page.
Email contest--at--thediagram.com with further questions if you have them. |
How to Get Your Work to Us (electronic, preferred) |
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REQUIRED STEP ONE: Pay contest fee through Paypal* by filling out the form below with your last name and the manuscript title, then clicking on the [Buy Now] button just below this paragraph. You may use a credit card if you like (or a checking account etc.). No need to create an account. Once you complete step one it will click through to a page with step two on it (also copied below just in case).
* You have three options for entering the chapbook contest: the entry fee is $24, but you may also choose to bundle that with a 2023 Chapbook Subscription (digital = $37; hardcopy =
$48). 1. Enter the contest & I want the 2023 chapbook subscription (digital + hardcopy, shipping incl. in US): $48
2. Enter the contest & I want the 2023 chapbook subscription (digital only): $37
3. Just the contest entry, ma'am: $24.
*If you have a hard time with paypal for any reason, drop us a line. We can take credit cards directly if you'll send us the info via email (card #, CVV (3 digit code on back), expiration date, billing address w/zipcode) at nmp--at--thediagram--dot--com, or we can give you a phone # to leave it on voicemail if you'd rather.
REQUIRED STEP TWO (COPIED FROM THE PAGE THAT PAYPAL WILL DIRECT YOU TO AFTER PAYMENT: submit your manuscript through our Submissions Manager system [here]. You'll have to create an account with the system if you haven't submitted to us before. Make SURE, SURE, that when you enter the submission's genre, you choose CHAPBOOK CONTEST ENTRY ONLY. Do NOT select "fiction," "poetry," or anything else. That way it gets read, processed, and responded-to properly (our contest submissions go through a different reading process than regular submissions). If you submit under something else things will get munged (though we are happy to read your non-contest submissions whenever, of course) and you'll have to resubmit. Please give us some kind of cover letter if you like. Or not.
Note: only one file may be submitted through the submissions manager. PDF preferred, or Word format (.doc, .docx), or .rtf is fine if necessary (we cannot read any other word processing formats; sorry). If your submission is more than one file, copy and paste it into one file or otherwise attach it. A zipfile would be acceptable if that's easier.
If you'd like your complimentary copy of the winning chapbook (or another chapbook in our series—please
specify which, if any, on the envelope), mail us a self-addressed 6" x 9"
envelope with $3 of postage (in USA—$7 is a safe bet if you're sending from overseas). If you do not care, there is no need for
this.
If you send electronically you'll be notified electronically by default. No SASE required unless you want a copy of the winning chapbook. If you'd like us to send you a hardcopy results letter, that's fine (then send us a SASE as specified below).
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How to Get Your Work to Us (old school hard copy postal mail: also OK) |
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If you'd rather send via the mail, fine. Mail your manuscript and check (made out to New Michigan Press--or pay online above if you'd rather and include the receipt) for $24 to: NMP/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest, English Department, P.O. Box 210067, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0067.
Make sure you send us a business-sized SASE with postage if you'd like notification of the results by mail in the USA. Manuscripts cannot be returned (sorry—please
don't send your only copy).
Optional: enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard
if you'd like confirmation that we received your manuscript.
Enclose a self-addressed 6" x 9"
envelope with $3 of postage (in USA—$7 is a safe bet if you're sending from overseas; no IRCs please) if you would like a complimentary
copy of the winning chapbook (or another chapbook in our series—please
specify which, if any, on the envelope; we'll honor requests if we have the chapbook in stock). If you do not care, there is no need for
this.
Please send your manuscripts via airmail. And please do not send submissions certified mail, express mail, or
anything we have to sign for; it's a pain and if we're not at the office, we're not going to be able to make a trip to the post office to pick up your manuscript. If you want to overnight
it, fine, just please check the "no signature req'd" box. |
Judge |
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We don't have a rotating celebrity judge for our chapbook contest. Since we pick the majority of our chapbooks from the submissions to the contest, we judge everything internally. The final judge is our editor, Ander Monson, and the preliminary readers change year to year and usually include some members of our editorial staff. We read anonymously and try to vary our aesthetic year to year. Still, we like what we like. To find out what we like, you should probably check out our books if you haven't already. |
Ethics |
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All contest entries are read and judged blind. Current and former students and close associates of the judge or the contest coordinator should steer clear of the contest for obvious reasons. |
Okay |
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That's it. Good luck! |
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The 2021 Chapbook Contest Results
07.06.21: We've finished our contest reading for this year and are pleased to announce the 2021 Contest results:
Our winner is Anney Bolgiano's Flat-Pack.
Congrats to her! She will receive the $1000 honorarium and publication of the chapbook as part of our series this coming year.
New Michigan Press also intends to publish several of our finalists in this year's series:
Marcia Aldrich, Edge
Nancy Eimers, Human Figures
Stephen Ira, Chasers
Ryan Mihaly, B-Flat Clarinet Fingering Chart
Dujie Tahat, Balikbayan
And here are the other finalists, who each deserve a curtain call:
Emma Aylor, Hydronym
Cody Rose Clevidence, D E A R T H
Ryler Dustin, Another Sky
Eileen G'Sell, francofilaments
Kelly Gray, Historia
Rae Gouirand, Little Hour
Shawn Hoo, Of the Florids
Christine Hume and Laura Larson, All the Women I Know
Jasmine Khaliq, Facefull
Evan Lavender-Smith, Going to Peru
Jen Karetnick, What Forges Us Steel
Tucker Leighty-Phillips, Kid Logic
Kristine Langley Mahler, Teen Queen Training
Peter Mason, Floodwaters
Abby Minor, The Wickedest Woman in New York
Lena Moses-Schmitt, True Mistakes
Congratulations to them too. All are excellent manuscripts, and we wish we could publish more. We'll be rolling these out in late 2021 or early 2022. More info to be found here. The 2022 Chapbook Contest Guidelines will be live in October 21
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The 2022 Chapbook Contest Guidelines will be live in October 21
The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM chapbook contest announces our guidelines for 2020! We select the majority of our chapbook list each year from the ranks of the chapbook contest finalists, so this is the best way to get your work read. And what's more, it's all read blind. Plus you get a free chapbook just for entering and you get to know that your entry helps us do what we do.
The Prize |
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$1000 plus publication; finalist chapbooks also considered for publication (in 2020 we published five) |
The Entry Fee |
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$20 |
The Mailing Deadline |
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April 30, 2021 |
What we want |
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Interesting, lovely unpublished work (unpublished as a whole; individual pieces may be published already of course), prose or poetry or some combination or something between genres, 18-44 manuscript pages (no more than one poem per page if you're sending poems unless they are very, very short). |
Images okay? |
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Yes, as long as you can obtain reprint rights for any images you include, unless they're in the public domain or qualify under the exemption for fair use. We do prefer images be in low-res for the manuscript to keep file size down (the submissions manager maxes out at around 9 megabytes), but we'll need high-res versions if your manuscript is selected for publication. ALSO: please don't send originals of anything, since we cannot return manuscripts. |
Other questions? |
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It's fine with us if individual works have
been published elsewhere, but the manuscript can't have been published
as a whole before. Please include specific acknowledgments if any of the works have appeared elsewhere: tell
us where individual pieces appeared, as we do sometimes consider submitted and unpublished individual pieces for possible publication in DIAGRAM.
We recommend that your manuscript
be as coherent--as much a project--as possible. Not to say everything needs to be thematic or narratively related, but most of our winning chapbooks have a feeling of aesthetic unity or connection or resonance: we think chapbooks should make sense as chapbooks, and be more than the sums of their parts. Chapbook manuscripts do not necessarily
have to be diagrammatic (though the diagrammers among us do enjoy
those).
Co-authored manuscripts are fine.
Submitting multiple manuscripts is fine with entry fees for each.
Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you let us know ASAP if a manuscript needs to be withdrawn.
Please don't put your name/identifying info on the piece itself. If you send electronically, it'll be in the submitter info only, and that doesn't get forward to our readers. If you send via the mail, include a detachable cover page.
Email contest--at--thediagram.com with further questions if you have them. |
How to Get Your Work to Us (electronic, preferred) |
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REQUIRED STEP ONE: Pay contest fee through Paypal* by filling out the form below with your last name and the manuscript title, then clicking on the [Buy Now] button just below this paragraph. You may use a credit card if you like (or a checking account etc.). No need to create an account. Once you complete step one it will click through to a page with step two on it (also copied below just in case).
Option one: Enter the Chapbook Contest ($20)
[payment link deleted since deadline's passed]
Option two: Chapbook Contest Entry + Digital Chapbook Contest Subscription ($35). This includes your entry in the 2021 Chapbook Contest + digital downloads (pdfs) of all the 2020-2021 chapbooks (Abraham Smith, Ashley Chambers, Kell Connor, Lytton Smith, W. Todd Kaneko, and Julia Madsen).
[payment link deleted since deadline's passed]
Option three: Chapbook Contest Entry + Print Chapbook Subscription ($45 + $5 shipping). This includes your entry in the 2021 Chapbook Contest and print copies of all of the 2020-2021 chapbooks (Abraham Smith, Ashley Chambers, Kell Connor, Lytton Smith, W. Todd Kaneko, and Julia Madsen). It also includes the digital downloads (pdfs).
[payment link deleted since deadline's passed]
Great. Note that the payment goes to New Michigan Press, the publisher of DIAGRAM.
*If you have a hard time with paypal for any reason, drop us a line. We can take credit cards directly if you'll send us the info via email (card #, CVV (3 digit code on back), expiration date, billing address w/zipcode) at nmp--at--thediagram--dot--com, or we can give you a phone # to leave it on voicemail if you'd rather.
REQUIRED STEP TWO (COPIED FROM THE PAGE THAT PAYPAL WILL DIRECT YOU TO AFTER PAYMENT: submit your manuscript through our Submissions Manager system [here]. You'll have to create an account with the system if you haven't submitted to us before. Make SURE, SURE, that when you enter the submission's genre, you choose CHAPBOOK CONTEST ENTRY ONLY. Do NOT select "fiction," "poetry," or anything else. That way it gets read, processed, and responded-to properly (our contest submissions go through a different reading process than regular submissions). If you submit under something else things will get munged (though we are happy to read your non-contest submissions whenever, of course) and you'll have to resubmit. Please give us some kind of cover letter if you like. Or not.
Note: only one file may be submitted through the submissions manager. PDF preferred, or Word format (.doc, .docx), or .rtf is fine if necessary (we cannot read any other word processing formats; sorry). If your submission is more than one file, copy and paste it into one file or otherwise attach it. A zipfile would be acceptable if that's easier.
If you'd like your complimentary copy of the winning chapbook (or another chapbook in our series—please
specify which, if any, on the envelope), mail us a self-addressed 6" x 9"
envelope with $3 of postage (in USA—$7 is a safe bet if you're sending from overseas). If you do not care, there is no need for
this.
If you send electronically you'll be notified electronically by default. No SASE required unless you want a copy of the winning chapbook. If you'd like us to send you a hardcopy results letter, that's fine (then send us a SASE as specified below).
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How to Get Your Work to Us (old school hard copy postal mail: also OK) |
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If you'd rather send via the mail, fine. Mail your manuscript and check (made out to New Michigan Press--or pay online above if you'd rather and include the receipt) for $20 to: NMP/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest, English Department, P.O. Box 210067, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0067.
Make sure you send us a business-sized SASE with postage if you'd like notification of the results by mail in the USA. Manuscripts cannot be returned (sorry—please
don't send your only copy).
Optional: enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard
if you'd like confirmation that we received your manuscript.
Enclose a self-addressed 6" x 9"
envelope with $3 of postage (in USA—$7 is a safe bet if you're sending from overseas; no IRCs please) if you would like a complimentary
copy of the winning chapbook (or another chapbook in our series—please
specify which, if any, on the envelope; we'll honor requests if we have the chapbook in stock). If you do not care, there is no need for
this.
Please send your manuscripts via airmail. And please do not send submissions certified mail, express mail, or
anything we have to sign for; it's a pain and if we're not at the office, we're not going to be able to make a trip to the post office to pick up your manuscript. If you want to overnight
it, fine, just please check the "no signature req'd" box. |
Judge |
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We don't have a rotating celebrity judge for our chapbook contest. Since we pick the majority of our chapbooks from the submissions to the contest, we judge everything internally. The final judge is our editor, Ander Monson, and the preliminary readers change year to year and usually include some members of our editorial staff. We read anonymously and try to vary our aesthetic year to year. Still, we like what we like. To find out what we like, you should probably check out our authors if you haven't already. |
Okay |
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That's it. Good luck! |
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06.26.20: ANNNNNND we are announcing our 2020 Chapbook Contest Results!
Our winner is Lytton Smith's The Square.
Congrats to Lytton! He will receive the $1000 honorarium and publication of the chapbook as part of our series this coming year.
New Michigan Press will also be publishing three of our finalists in this year's series:
Ashley Chambers, The Exquisite Buoyancies
Kell Connor, Final Diaries
Julia Madsen, Home Movie, Nowhere
Here are the other fourteen finalists, who each deserve a curtain call:
Ali Black, If It Heals at All
AB Gorham, Pinwheel Winner Run
Krupa Harishankar, True Apothecary
Wren Hanks, Lily-Livered
Annie Kim, Cold But Sunny
Sara Luisa Kirk, Only All the Blood
J. I. Kleinberg, Emphatic Pajamas
Susannah Lodge-Rigal, Nowhere I Have Ever Been
Kelli Anne Noftle, My Teenage Gospel Hour
Varun Ravindran, Intermezzo
Laura Ring, Field Notes Recovered from the Expedition to Devil's Peak
Max Schleicher, Sonnets for an End of the Midwest
Gale Thompson, Hand Me My Leather
GC Waldrep, Elegy for the Polis as Proscribed National Park
Congratulations to them too. All are excellent manuscripts, and we wish we could publish more!
09.02.19: We have news on the Chapbook Contest at long last! Congrats to our winner Blanche Brown, for Consider the Oyster. She will receive $1000 and publication in 2019-2020. We also selected four of our finalists for publication this year:
- Sarah Bates, TENDER
- Loren Goodman and Pirooz Kalayeh, SHITTING ON ELVES & OTHER POEMS
- Benjamin Gucciardi, I ASK MY SISTER'S GHOST
- Patrick Whitfill, CURIOSITY
Here are the other ten finalists, who deserve a curtain call:
- Geoff Anderson, Sand House
- Geoff Bouvier, Transparent Inflatable Kayak
- Katherine Eulensen, Strictly Business
- Jean Gallagher, Every Little Iliad
- Adam Greenberg, Fortune
- Eric LeMay, Remember Me
- Michael Pontacoloni, Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
- Max Schleicher, Sonnets for an End of the Midwest
- Meredith Stricker, Blue, a Disturbance
- Terese Svoboda, 40 Days
Congratulations to them too. All are excellent manuscripts, and I wish we could publish more. If you sent us a manuscript, do send us a SASE with $3 in US postage and we'll send you the winner. Guidelines for 2020 will go up this fall sometime (with an April 2020 deadline).
08.01.19: We're getting close to announcing our results. It takes a while to read so many good manuscripts closely and carefully. Expect to have a winner to announce by 08.20.19!
04.29.19: alright, friends, Chapbok Contest deadline's passed. Thanks to all of you who entered, and best of luck. We'll get to the reading part. We usually can expect to announce a winner in July.
01.10.19: The 2019 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest is up and running. Deadline's 04.26.19. $1000 + publication to the winner + publication to a handful of finalists. Details here. We're doing something a little new this year, in that if you buy a print subscription to the 2019 series, we'll comp your Chapbook Contest Entry, which is quite a deal. The link to do so, however, is ONLY on this page.
08.11.18: AT LAST THE 2018 CHAPBOOK CONTEST RESULTS ARE IN. It's taken us such a long time since the work is hard, and we wanted to do it right, but here it is below. tl;dr: congrats to Andrew Dally!
11.11.17: Hey, so the 2018 Chapbook Contest [deadline: 04.27.2018] are live, and we are accepting submissions. Your entry comes with a free chapbook, so send us a SASE and let us know which one you'd like. ("Contest winner" is fine, or anything else that looks good to you in our catalog...)
07.13.17: The 2017 Chapbook Contest Results are below. Congratulations to Claire Wahmanholm for her winning manuscript Night Vision, which was selected as the winner out of more than 500 submitted manuscripts. In addition, we plan on publishing finalist chapbooks by Patricia Clark, Jacqueline Lyons, and Maya Popa. The 2018 Chapbook Contest are now online. Rock and roll!
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The 2019 Chapbook Contest Guidelines
The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM chapbook contest announces our guidelines for 2018. We pick the majority of our chapbook list each year from the ranks of the chapbook contest finalists, so this is the best way to get your work read by our eager readers. And what's more, it's all read blind. Plus you get a free chapbook for entering.
The Prize |
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$1000 plus publication; finalist chapbooks also considered for publication (in 2018 we published five) |
The Entry Fee |
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$20 |
The Mailing Deadline |
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April 26, 2019 |
What we want |
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Interesting, lovely unpublished work (unpublished as a whole; individual pieces may be published already of course), prose or poetry or some combination or something between genres, 18-44 manuscript pages (no more than one poem per page if you're sending poems unless they are very, very short). |
Images okay? |
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Yes, as long as you can obtain reprint rights for any images you include, unless they're in the public domain or qualify under the exemption for fair use. We do prefer images be in low-res for the manuscript to keep file size down (the submissions manager maxes out at around 9 meg), but we'll need high-res versions if your manuscript is selected for publication. ALSO: please don't send originals of anything, since we cannot return manuscripts. |
Other questions? |
|
It's fine with us if individual works have
been published elsewhere, but the manuscript can't have been published
as a whole before. Please include specific acknowledgments if any of the works have appeared elsewhere: tell
us where individual pieces appeared, as we do sometimes consider submitted and unpublished individual pieces for possible publication in DIAGRAM.
We recommend that your manuscript
be as coherent--as much a project--as possible. Not to say everything needs to be thematic or narratively related, but most of our winning chapbooks have a feeling of aesthetic unity or resonance: we think chapbooks should make sense as chapbooks, and be more than the sums of their parts. Chapbook manuscripts do not necessarily
have to be diagrammatic (though the diagrammers among us do enjoy
those).
Co-authored manuscripts are fine.
Submitting multiple manuscripts is fine with entry fees for each.
Please don't put your name/identifying info on the piece itself. If you send electronically, it'll be in the submitter info only. If you send via the mail, include a detachable cover page.
Email nmp--at--thediagram.com with further questions if you have them. |
How to Get Your Work to Us (electronic, preferred) |
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REQUIRED STEP ONE: Pay contest fee through Paypal* by filling out the form below with your last name and the manuscript title, then clicking on the [Add to Cart] button just below this paragraph. You may use a credit card if you like (or a checking account etc.). No need to create an account. Once you complete step one it will click through to a page with step two on it (also copied below just in case).
Option one: Chapbook Contest entry fee ($20)
[paypal link's gone since the deadline's passed]
Option two: if you buy the 2019 Chapbook Contest Subscription ($35 + 5 shipping in USA), your entry is free...
[paypal link's gone since the deadline's passed]
Great. Note that the payment goes to New Michigan Press, the publisher of DIAGRAM.
*If you have a hard time with paypal for any reason, drop us a line. We can take credit cards directly if you'll send us the info via email (card #, CVV (3 digit code on back), expiration date, billing address w/zipcode) at nmp--at--thediagram--dot--com.
REQUIRED STEP TWO (COPIED FROM THE PAGE THAT PAYPAL WILL DIRECT YOU TO AFTER PAYMENT: submit your manuscript through our Submissions Manager system [here]. You'll have to create an account with the system if you haven't submitted to us before. Make SURE, SURE, that when you enter the submission's genre, you choose CHAPBOOK CONTEST ENTRY ONLY. Do NOT select "fiction," "poetry," or anything else. That way it gets read, processed, and responded-to properly (our contest submissions go through a different reading process than regular submissions). If you submit under something else things will get munged (though we are happy to read your non-contest submissions whenever, of course) and you'll have to resubmit. Please give us some kind of cover letter if you like. Or not.
Note: only one file may be submitted through the submissions manager. PDF preferred, or Word format (.doc, .docx), or .rtf is fine if necessary (we cannot read any other word processing formats; sorry). If your submission is more than one file, copy and paste it into one file or otherwise attach it. A zipfile would be acceptable if that's easier.
If you'd like your complimentary copy of the winning chapbook (or another chapbook in our series—please
specify which, if any, on the envelope), mail us a self-addressed 6" x 9"
envelope with $3 of postage (in USA—$7 is a safe bet if you're sending from overseas). If you do not care, there is no need for
this.
If you send electronically you'll be notified electronically by default. No SASE required unless you want a copy of the winning chapbook. If you'd like us to send you a hardcopy results letter, that's fine (then send us a SASE as specified below).
|
How to Get Your Work to Us (old school hard copy postal mail: also OK) |
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If you'd rather send via the mail, fine. Mail your manuscript and check (made out to New Michigan Press--or pay online above if you'd rather and include the receipt) for $20 to: NMP/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest, English Department, P.O. Box 210067, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0067.
So, make sure you send us a business-sized SASE with postage if you'd like notification of the results by mail in the USA. Manuscripts cannot be returned (sorry—please
don't send your only copy).
Optional: enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard
if you'd like confirmation that we received your manuscript.
Enclose a self-addressed 6" x 9"
envelope with $3 of postage (in USA—$7 is a safe bet if you're sending from overseas; no IRCs please) if you would like a complimentary
copy of the winning chapbook (or another chapbook in our series—please
specify which, if any, on the envelope; we'll honor requests if we have the chapbook in stock). If you do not care, there is no need for
this.
Please send your manuscripts via airmail for best results. And please do not send submissions certified mail, express mail, or
anything we have to sign for; it's a pain and if we're not at the office, we're not going to be able to make a trip to the post office, which is a drag in Arizona, to pick up your manuscript. If you want to overnight
it, fine, just please check the "no signature req'd" box. |
Judge |
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We don't have a rotating celebrity judge for our chapbook contest. Since we pick the majority of our chapbooks from the submissions to the contest, we judge everything internally. The final judge is our editor, Ander Monson. Readers change year to year. We read anonymously and try to vary our aesthetic year to year. Still, we like what we like. To find out what we like, you should probably check out our authors if you haven't already. |
Okay |
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That's it. Good luck! |
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2018 Chapbook Contest Results
Our 2018 Chapbook Contest results are in:
The winner is Andrew Dally, for All the Times We Passed McDonald's Between Chapel Hill and Tuxedo, North Carolina. He will receive $1000 and publication this coming year.
NMP will also publish the following four finalists in this year's series:
Emily Viggiano Saland's Trajectory.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's Negative Money
Tara Roeder and Arman Safa's Every Bird is a Miracle
Nick Admussen's Stand Back, Don't Fear the Change
We received more than 500 entries this year, and it took us a very long time to read them all properly, which is to say seriously and anonymously. Each was read at least twice to generate a list of about 45 semifinalists, from which we selected 20 finalists:
Toby Altman, Every Hospital...
Melvin Bosworth and Ryan Ridge, A Month of Sundays
Chloe Firetto-Toomey, The Biography of Orange
Adam Greenberg, Cliffs of the Indian Southwest
Timston Johnston, Spurn Me
Brandon Krieg, The Magnifyer
Kelly Krumrie, The Frame of Formal Opens
Mary Kuryla, O Onawayans!
Nic Leigh, Biographies
Cameron McGill, Meridians
Lena Moses-Schmitt, True Mistakes
Kevin Oberlin, God of No Sky
Tolu Olorontoba, Mantis
Max C Schleicher, Dream of Low Houses Looks Back
Bret Shepard, Boiling Sand
Shenandoah Sowash, Start with the Tongue
Entrants: if you'd like a copy of the winning chapbook or one of the other finalists (or one of the other chapbooks we've published in the past), send us a SASE with about $2.80 of postage on it (in USA; overseas aim for about $7) and we'd be happy to send you the copy that comes with your entry fee.
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The 2018 Chapbook Contest Guidelines
The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM chapbook contest announces our guidelines for 2018. We pick the majority of our chapbook list each year from the ranks of the chapbook contest finalists, so this is the best way to get your work read by our eager readers. And what's more, it's all read blind. Plus you get a free chapbook for entering.
The Prize |
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$1000 plus publication; finalist chapbooks also considered for publication (in 2017 we published five) |
The Entry Fee |
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$20 |
The Mailing Deadline |
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April 27, 2018 -- and our deadline this year has passed! |
What we want |
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Interesting, lovely unpublished work (unpublished as a whole; individual pieces may be published already of course), prose or poetry or some combination or something between genres, 18-44 manuscript pages (no more than one poem per page if you're sending poems unless they are very, very short). |
Images okay? |
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Yes, as long as you can obtain reprint rights for any images you include, unless they're in the public domain or qualify under the exemption for fair use. We do prefer images be in low-res for the manuscript to keep file size down (the submissions manager maxes out at around 9 meg), but we'll need high-res versions if your manuscript is selected for publication. ALSO: please don't send originals of anything, since we cannot return manuscripts. |
Other questions? |
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It's fine with us if individual works have
been published elsewhere, but the manuscript can't have been published
as a whole before. Please include specific acknowledgments if any of the works have appeared elsewhere: tell
us where individual pieces appeared, as we do sometimes consider submitted and unpublished individual pieces for possible publication in DIAGRAM.
We recommend that your manuscript
be as coherent--as much a project--as possible. Not to say everything needs to be thematic or narratively related, but most of our winning chapbooks have a feeling of aesthetic unity or resonance: we think chapbooks should make sense as chapbooks, and be more than the sums of their parts. Chapbook manuscripts do not necessarily
have to be diagrammatic (though the diagrammers among us do enjoy
those).
Co-authored manuscripts are fine.
Submitting multiple manuscripts is fine with entry fees for each.
Please don't put your name/identifying info on the piece itself. If you send electronically, it'll be in the submitter info only. If you send via the mail, include a detachable cover page.
Email nmp--at--thediagram.com with further questions if you have them. |
How to Get Your Work to Us (electronic, preferred) |
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REQUIRED STEP ONE: Pay contest fee through Paypal* by filling out the form below with your last name and the manuscript title, then clicking on the [Add to Cart] button just below this paragraph. You may use a credit card if you like (or a checking account etc.). No need to create an account. Once you complete step one it will click through to a page with step two on it (also copied below just in case).
[form's gone since the deadline has passed]
Great. Note that the payment goes to New Michigan Press, the publisher of DIAGRAM.
*If you have a hard time with paypal for any reason, drop us a line. We can take credit cards directly if you'll send us the info via email (card #, CVV (3 digit code on back), expiration date, billing address w/zipcode) at nmp--at--thediagram--dot--com.
REQUIRED STEP TWO (COPIED FROM THE PAGE THAT PAYPAL WILL DIRECT YOU TO AFTER PAYMENT: submit your manuscript through our Submissions Manager system [here]. You'll have to create an account with the system if you haven't submitted to us before. Make SURE, SURE, that when you enter the submission's genre, you choose CHAPBOOK CONTEST ENTRY ONLY. Do NOT select "fiction," "poetry," or anything else. That way it gets read, processed, and responded-to properly (our contest submissions go through a different reading process than regular submissions). If you submit under something else things will get munged (though we are happy to read your non-contest submissions whenever, of course) and you'll have to resubmit. Please give us some kind of cover letter if you like. Or not.
Note: only one file may be submitted through the submissions manager. PDF preferred, or Word format (.doc, .docx), or .rtf is fine if necessary (we cannot read any other word processing formats; sorry). If your submission is more than one file, copy and paste it into one file or otherwise attach it. A zipfile would be acceptable if that's easier.
If you'd like your complimentary copy of the winning chapbook (or another chapbook in our series—please
specify which, if any, on the envelope), mail us a self-addressed 6" x 9"
envelope with $3 of postage (in USA—$7 is a safe bet if you're sending from overseas). If you do not care, there is no need for
this.
If you send electronically you'll be notified electronically by default. No SASE required unless you want a copy of the winning chapbook. If you'd like us to send you a hardcopy results letter, that's fine (then send us a SASE as specified below).
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How to Get Your Work to Us (old school hard copy postal mail: also OK) |
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If you'd rather send via the mail, fine. Mail your manuscript and check (made out to New Michigan Press--or pay online above if you'd rather and include the receipt) for $20 to: NMP/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest, English Department, P.O. Box 210067, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0067.
So, make sure you send us a business-sized SASE with postage if you'd like notification of the results by mail in the USA. Manuscripts cannot be returned (sorry—please
don't send your only copy).
Optional: enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard
if you'd like confirmation that we received your manuscript.
Enclose a self-addressed 6" x 9"
envelope with $3 of postage (in USA—$7 is a safe bet if you're sending from overseas; no IRCs please) if you would like a complimentary
copy of the winning chapbook (or another chapbook in our series—please
specify which, if any, on the envelope; we'll honor requests if we have the chapbook in stock). If you do not care, there is no need for
this.
Please send your manuscripts via airmail for best results. And please do not send submissions certified mail, express mail, or
anything we have to sign for; it's a pain and if we're not at the office, we're not going to be able to make a trip to the post office, which is a drag in Arizona, to pick up your manuscript. If you want to overnight
it, fine, just please check the "no signature req'd" box. |
Judge |
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We don't have a celebrity judge for our chapbook contest. Since we pick the majority of our chapbooks from the submissions to the contest, we judge everything internally. The final judge is our editor, Ander Monson. Readers change year to year. We read anonymously and try to vary our aesthetic year to year. Still, we like what we like. To find out what we like, you should probably check out our authors if you haven't already. |
Okay |
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That's it. Good luck! |
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2017 Chapbook Contest Results
Oour 2017 Chapbook Contest results are in:
The winner is Claire Wahmanholm's Night Vision. She will receive $1000 and publication this coming year.
NMP will also publish the following three finalists in this year's series, along with planned chapbooks by Kathleen Peirce, Albert Goldbarth, and Craig Arnold:
Patricia Clark, Deadlifts: the Clark Obit Poems
Jacqueline Lyons
, Earthquake Daily
Maya Popa, You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave
We received more than 500 entries this year, and it took us a very long time to read them all properly, which is to say seriously and anonymously. Each was read at least twice to generate a list of 37 semifinalists, from which we selected 15 finalists, listed here:
S Brook Corfman, The Adversaria
C. D. DyVane, rhi(n.)oceros
John James, Futurisms
Blair Johnson, A Circle in the Proof
Colin-Uriah Johnson, On Philia, or My Fitness Pal
Christopher Munde, Obtaining Ether
Eric Pankey, Opus Posthumous
Christopher Phelps, Tremblem
Samuel Piccone, Pupa
Josie Sigler, The Feral
Karinne Keithley Syers, The Lydian Gale Parr
Entrants: if you'd like a copy of the winning chapbook or one of the other finalists (or one of the other chapbooks we've published in the past), send us a SASE with about $2.80 of postage on it (in USA; overseas aim for about $7) and we'd be happy to send you the copy that comes with your entry fee. Address below.
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On this page, find:
Contest Guidelines:
Contest Results:
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