July, 2025

Event Details
Driftwood Press is accepting submissions for their 2025 ‘Adrift’ Adrift Chapbook Contest. Works written in English are accepted. Original poetry only. Prose poetry, experimental poetry, and poetry with a visual component
Event Details
Driftwood Press is accepting submissions for their 2025 ‘Adrift’ Adrift Chapbook Contest.
Works written in English are accepted. Original poetry only. Prose poetry, experimental poetry, and poetry with a visual component (color images accepted) are welcome. Poems may have been published individually, but not as a part or whole of a collection.
Finalists and winner will be announced by Driftwood editors in November 2025. The winning chapbook(s) will be published in 2026.
The winner will receive $750 dollars and 20 copies of their chapbook. The winner will also have the opportunity to be interviewed about their work; the interview will be published in the chapbook following the poems.
Each submitter will receive a free copy of a Driftwood Press poetry chapbook of their choosing in the mail.
Is this competition legit?YES! – Based on our research this event is legitimate and the organizer is well established. However, as with any event, please remember to do your own research before submitting your work.
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