The Winner of the Seventh Annual Chapbook Contest Is...

...The Kind of Girl by Kim Henderson of Idyllwild, CA. Contest judge Deb Olin Unferth selected The Kind of Girl out of a field of 113 submissions, and the chapbook will be published this coming July. You can sign up to receive the chapbook automatically when it launches by becoming a supporter here. 

Thank you to all the authors who submitted--we had a terrific field of entrants this year.

Our five finalists include:

Runner-up:

River Traffic by Emma Torzs of Missoula, MT

Reprieve and Other Stories by Amy Bergen of New York, NY
The 28 Mansions of the Moon by Lydia Suarez of Verona, NJ

This Is All the Orientation You Are Gonna Get by John Jodzio of Minneapolis, MN

What to Say to Aliens by Marc Sheehan of Grand Haven, MI

And our five semi-finalists include:

Basically People by Anji Reyner of Missoula, MT

Factories by Brandi Wells of Tuscaloosa, AL

Only Tourists Get Their Shoes Shined by Tyler Gillespie of Chicago, IL

Patient by Erika Mikkalo of Chicago, IL

The Measure Everything Machine by Mark Wallace of San Diego, CA

Congratulations to all of them!