The 2023 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest will open for submissions on Sept. 1 through Nov. 30. Poetry, short story collections, and works of creative nonfiction will be considered.
Important update!! The fiction judge has just been announced: Thisbe Nissen! Here’s her website http://www.thisbenissen.com Other genre Judges will be posted soon.
Further details.
To enter the contest, you must be a current member of Michigan Writers who has not had a full-length book of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction published. Authors of chapbooks published through presses other than Michigan Writers Cooperative Press (MWCP) are eligible to enter. Watch this space for a link to submit your work electronically.
Winners will be announced in the spring of 2023.
Here are the complete eligibility guidelines:
Eligible
• You were one of several contributors to an edited collection.
• You have a chapbook published through a press other than MWCP.
• You were the editor of an essay, story, or poetry collection published by a juried press.
• You have had one or more poems published in a regional or national literary journal.
• You have had one or more short stories published in a regional or national literary journal.
• You have a textbook published.
• You have never had anything published.
• You have self-published a book in a literary genre.
Not Eligible
• You were one of two co-authors of an essay collection published by a juried press.
• You have a full-length book of poems, short stories, or essays published by a juried, cooperative, commercial, or university press.
• You had a novel or memoir published by a press.
• You are a board member or the spouse or child of a MWCP or Michigan Writers, Inc. board member.
• You are an adjudicator or volunteer for MWCP or Michigan Writers, Inc.
• You have served on the Michigan Writers, Inc. board of directors within twelve months of the contest submission period closing.
