Submissions of up to thirty pages of poems are invited from poets worldwide writing in English. All kinds of poetry are welcome; we set no formal or aesthetic requirements, and we invite manuscripts that still need polishing.
The winner will receive $2,000 and publication, which includes a free, downloadable digital chapbook on our website, fifty physical author copies to share and sell, and the option to enable drop-shipping sales at Amazon, Bookshop.org, and Barnes & Noble, earning 50% royalties. on your chapbook.
Additionally, tens of thousands of readers, editors, and magazines will receive chapbook access through our newsletter. This audience can be a formative springboard for your poetic career!
Our guest judge, Kemi Alabi, will select the winner this year from ten finalists curated by our editorial team.
$25 reading fee. Editorial Feedback options available.
The Poetry School have partnered with Frontier to offer everyone who submits to the Breakthrough Chapbook Contest a 20% off discount code to one of their online courses.
Find out more here
Deadline: 11 May 2023