Atlanta Review is pleased to announce our first-ever poetry chapbook competition! As with our journal, we seek simply amazing poetry–poetry that delights, poetry that refreshes the spirit, that sparks curiosity, that intrigues the intellect, that fills the senses, that says something genuine about the world as well as the individual. We celebrate diversity and are open to many styles, forms, and kinds of poetry, about any and all subjects. Chapbooks with a clear theme are especially welcome. (We are not looking for visual/graphic poetry at this time.)
The chapbook will be saddle-stitched with a full-color cover. The prize is $500 plus 25 copies of the chapbook.
The entrance fee is $25 which includes a copy of the winning chapbook.
Guidelines
- 20 pages max, excluding cover sheet with title only, plus table of contents, and acknowledgements. Please do not put your name anywhere on the manuscript or file name. (Your file name should be the title of your manuscript.)
- Each poem single-spaced on its own page; indicate if there is a line break if the poem extends onto another page.
- Times New Roman or Arial font, 12 pt., with 1 inch margins.
- Poems may have been published individually, but not as a collection.
- Poems that have lines longer than 4-ish inches may need to wrap to the next line. If you use creative spacing, or long Whitman-esque lines that go to the right margin, please keep that in mind.
- Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please let us know if it’s taken elsewhere (and congrats!).
- Submit between Dec. 1-31, for publication in the following year. NB: We reserve the right to extend the contest into January if we have not received at least 100 submissions by Dec. 31st.