We are overjoyed to announce that the winner of our 2018 All-Genre Chapbook Contest has been chosen! We're very grateful to have read so many wonderful submissions this year, and to have the opportunity to publish work that continues encouraging feminist conversations of many sorts. We would like to extend our congratulations to this year's winner, runners-up, finalists, and semi-finalists, as well as our sincere thanks to all who submitted work. Look for our winning chapbook

We are thrilled to announce that the winners of the 2016 Poetry/Hybrid and Prose/Hybrid Chapbook Contests are in! We're very grateful to have read so many wonderful submissions this year, and to have the opportunity to publish work that continues encouraging feminist conversations of many sorts. This year, Gazing Grain Press will publish the winners of our prose and poetry chapbook contests, as well as the runner-up manuscript from our prose contest. Congratulations to this y

Thanks to everyone who submitted work to this year's contests! We are now closed to submissions, and we will be busily reading and discussing your work over the next few months. #Contests

This year, we have decided to extend the deadlines for both the Poetry/Hybrid and Prose/Hybrid Chapbook Contests for one week, until May 15th. We've received many exciting submissions so far, and we're looking forward to seeing what one last week of open contest submissions brings in. (And you're welcome, procrastinators!) You can submit your chapbook manuscripts online through Submittable; read more about the contest guidelines here. Thank you for considering Gazing Grain Pr

We've got great news: Gazing Grain Press is now open for submissions of your feminist chapbook manuscripts! This year, we're thrilled to announce that Rachel Eliza Griffiths will judge the 2016 Poetry/Hybrid Chapbook Contest and Lily Hoang will judge the 2016 Prose/Hybrid Chapbook Contest. You can read more about both judges below. This year's contests will be open until May 8, 2016. You can find our contest guidelines and submit through Submittable here. The GGP editors are

Kate Partridge: Your chapbook Sweet/Crude, which we're delighted to be publishing in 2016, responds to the impact of fracking and the ensuing population boom in North Dakota. The work parses many of the impacts of this “boom or bust,” including the dimensions of violence that have followed—not only ecological, but also public and domestic damage to women, children, safe housing, public safety, and Native Americans. The book is also highly associative, though, and makes intrig

Gazing Grain Press is delighted to announce the results of the 2015 feminist poetry and prose chapbook contests. Judge Natalie Diaz has selected Marisa Crawford as the winner of our 2015 poetry/hybrid contest, and her chapbook Big Brown Bag will be published in September. We’ll have a launch and celebratory reading during Fall for the Book. Judge Amber Sparks has chosen Heidi Czerwiec’s Sweet/Crude as the winner of the 2015 prose/hybrid contest, and her chapbook will be publi

Dear friends, We're delighted to announce the judges for this year's poetry chapbook contest and our inaugural prose chapbook contest: Natalie Diaz and Amber Sparks. Contest submissions will be open from March 1 through May 15, 2015; you can view the contest guidelines here. Poetry Judge: Natalie Diaz Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila

And with it, the GGP editors have some exciting announcements, including: an off-site reading at AWP 2015 Minneapolis the judges for 2015 our poetry and prose chapbook contests see above: OUR FIRST ANNUAL PROSE CHAPBOOK CONTEST Check back here soon for AWP and contest details, and in the meantime, get caught up with all of the current GGP titles by visiting our store. #Announcements #Contests #Prose #Poetry

We're now open to submissions for the 2014 Gazing Grain Press Chapbook Contest, sponsored by the Fall for the Book literary festival! We're accepting submissions of poetry and hybrid chapbook manuscripts from now until June 1, 2014. Dawn Lundy Martin is this year's contest judge. You can find full details about this year's contest, including info on our 2014 discounted submissions fees, here at our Guidelines page. The winner of our contest receives 10% of the print run in c