My first chapbook review of Heart Radicals by Les Kay, Sandra Marchetti, Allie Marini and Janeen Pergrin Rastall just went up on Yellow Chair Review! This love-ly chapbook was so much fun to read and write about. If you’re interested in writing reviews, browse through some of the reviews […]
Winning Writers FREE contest for humorous poetry is open until April 1, 2016! Read last year’s winners here. Winning Writers is a great resource for writers. You can find just about anything you might need and answers to many writing-related questions on their site. You can read details […]
I can’t believe I’m just now hearing about this amazing project! “The mission of the Origami Poems Projectâ„¢ is the encouragement of literature & the arts by bringing Free Poetry to everyone through the printing and distribution (world-wide) of free Origami micro-chapbooks as well as through poetry events, […]
The individual listings below are the chapbook publishers I found which do not charge submission fees, reading fees, or contest fees. The majority of chapbooks are published via contests and do typically require a fee from $10 – $25. Research each market thoroughly and make sure submitting is […]
Below are the details for five free poetry contests in the order of the upcoming deadlines in February and March. Also listed are links to other sites who list creative writing contests on a regular basis. Prospero Prizes DEADLINE: February 15, 2016 ELIGIBILITY: “This contest is open to everyone. However, […]
Zócalo Public Square is currently running a free poetry contest with the theme of “Place.” Poets may send up to three poems to poetry@zocalopublicsquare.org. Since 2012, the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize has been awarded annually to the U.S. poet whose poem best evokes a connection to place. "Place" […]
Below are the details for five free poetry contests in the order of the upcoming deadlines in December and January. Also listed are links to other sites who list creative writing contests on a regular basis. Amazon's Little A Poetry Contest DEADLINE: December 20, 2015 ELIGIBILITY: Open to legal […]
Mothers Always Write is currently running a free poetry contest with a holiday theme: Home for the Holidays. “Share your favorite (or most frustrating) holiday memories and family traditions. Send us your best holiday poems between November 1st and November 30th via Submittable, noting "Home for the Holidays […]
This contest slides in just at my $5 fee rule for low/no fee opportunities. The winner takes home up $200 plus 25 copies of their winning chapbook. This contest is sponsored by the up and coming online lit mag Yellow Chair Review and the judge is a fine poet and friend […]
Split Lip Magazine “is an online journal driven to help literature mingle with pop culture and to allow art to serve as an alternative means to mainstream journalism, which is filtered and reveals only surface-level truth. Split Lip is a punk rock publishing collective, and we are unfiltered, unrefined, […]
