2026 elsewhere chapbook prize

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judged this year by Kylan Rice

the prize: $1000 plus publication through elsewhere books

the rules: submit 15-30 manuscript pages of prose pieces (flash fiction, nonfiction, prose poetry, or something in between). we're looking for manuscripts with imagery, emotion, clarity, insight, narrative, and thematic or aesthetic unity. delight us, surprise us, break our hearts. 

please do not include name anywhere on manuscript. 

while some individual pieces may be published elsewhere, the manuscript as a whole must be unpublished.

We use Submittable to accept and review our submissions.