The Frontier Poetry Debut Chapbook Prize is an opportunity for emerging poets to submit their unpublished chapbook or manuscript of up to thirty pages of poetry. All kinds of poetry are welcome; with no formal or aesthetic requirements. Manuscripts that still need polishing can also be submitted.

The contest is open from July 1, 2024, until September 1, 2024, and the winners will be announced sometime in late fall or early winter and published fall of 2025.

The winner will receive $2,000 and publication, 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. Additionally, tens of thousands of readers, editors, and magazines will receive access to your chapbook through the organizer’s newsletter.

Guest Judge Nancy Miller Gomez will select the winner this year from ten finalists.

Writers from historically marginalized groups are welcome to submit for a reduced fee. No additional fee waivers will be granted.

Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English. Inclusion of other languages, such as in code-switching/meshing, is welcome, as long as the poem is primarily in English.

Winners and finalists will be announced late fall or early winter of 2024.

We are keen to encourage quality, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and spelling check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.