2024 Oversound Chapbook Prize | $1000 and 50 Copies

Multiple submissions to this contest are acceptable, but each submission requires an entry fee.

2024 Oversound Chapbook Prize

Judge: Diana Khoi Nguyen

$1000 and 50 copies to winner.

$18 to enter. (or $21 to enter and receive a back issue or previously published chapbook)

March 1-April 30, 2024

Manuscript length: 15-30 pages. For a manuscript outside this range, please contact us prior to sending.

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Guidelines

Please do not include any identifying information on your manuscript.

No acknowledgments.

Manuscripts must be previously unpublished. (Individual poems may have been published.)

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable.

Multiple submissions to this contest are acceptable, but each submission requires an entry fee.

Past or present close friends or students of the judge or the editors are not eligible to enter.

Please do not submit revisions to your manuscript once it has been entered in the contest. Revisions are acceptable prior to publication.

No citizenship requirements or limitations. 

Translations are not eligible.

Electronic submissions only. Make sure to choose Chapbook Contest under Genre in the submission manager. Payment for your submission should be made via PayPal after you submit the manuscript. The submission manager will send you to a page that contains the PayPal link, but if you run into trouble contact us at oversoundpoetry (AT) gmail (DOT) com. (If you choose to pay $21, we’ll be in touch to confirm which chapbook or back issue you’d like at the end of the contest submission period.)

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