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Chapbooks

Newfound is closed to new manuscripts until further notice while we steward the passing of our prizes and projects to another nonprofit press. We are excited to share our final 2024 catalog with you this fall. Our web store remains open with royalties continuing to support our authors.

Newfound publishes at minimum three chapbooks (two poetry, one prose) annually, handbound on FSC-certified paper. Excited to publish with us? Read the guidelines below to determine the category that best fits you and your manuscript.

Our chapbooks are sold at Powell’s, Open Books, Woodland Pattern, and many other independent bookstores across the US. Poetry titles are graciously archived by The University of Arizona Poetry Center, Poetry Foundation, and the UT Poetry Center at the Perry-Castañeda Library.

Newfound won the 2021 Eric Hoffer Micro Press Award. Reviews of our chapbooks have appeared in Ploughshares, Rain Taxi, Cleaver Magazine, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. We proudly nominate our chapbooks for the Eric Hoffer Award and Poetry Society of America’s Four Quartets Prize, for which our titles have been finalists.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize

(15 April–15 Aug)

Our annual poetry prize proudly honors poet, writer, and cultural theorist, Gloria E. Anzaldúa. The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize is awarded annually to a poet whose work explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. Special attention is given to poems that exhibit multiple vectors of thinking: artistic, theoretical, and social, which is to say, political.

  • Open to poets at any stage of their career.
  • $15 reading fee; Entries paneled and judged by a guest judge.
  • Winner receives $1,500, 25 contributor copies.
  • Winner receives royalties contract option (25% print/50% digital).

For details, visit the prize page.

Emerging Poets Chapbook Series

(1 Dec–31 Dec)

In December only, Newfound accepts unsolicited chapbook-length manuscripts from writers who have not yet published a full-length book. Our open submission period aims to advance the careers of emerging writers by printing their work in beautiful, hand-bound editions. Submissions are open to finalists, but not winners of Newfound prizes. One chapbook per year is selected by Newfound staff, more when our budget allows.

  • Only open to poets without a published full-length book.
  • No fee, no guest judge, no prize money.
  • Poet receives 25 contributor copies.
  • Poet receives royalties contract (25% print/50% digital).

For details, visit the submission page.

Newfound Prose Prize

(15 Sept–15 Mar)

The Newfound Prose Prize is awarded annually to a chapbook-length work of exceptional fiction or creative nonfiction. The work may be in the form of a long story or essay or a collection of short pieces (60 pages max). Other than the page limit, the only formal requirement is that some aspect of the work must inform or explore how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding.

  • Open to writers at any stage of their career.
  • $15 reading fee; Entries paneled and judged by a guest judge.
  • Winner receives $500, 25 contributor copies.
  • Winner receives royalties contract option (25% print/50% digital).

For details, visit the prize page.