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Contests

The annual Diode Editions contests are currently closed.

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Guidelines

The Diode Editions Book & Chapbook contests are open to all poets who write in English. Patty Paine, Editor in Chief of Diode Editions & diode poetry journal welcomes collaborations and accepts simultaneous submissions. The press may select more than one book & chapbook for publication.

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Full guidelines are posted herein during contest periods.

 

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Contest Winners

 

2024

 

Full-length Book Prize Winners

All Is The Telling, Rosa Castellano

Tidying Up The House, Hind Shoufani

We Had Mansions: Poems, Mandy Shunnarah

 

Chapbook Prize Winners

Towards A Retreat, Samaa Abdurraqib   

Hindsight, Mack Rogers


Full-length Book Prize Finalists

Some Americans, Carolyn Guinzio 

PERISH / ABOLISH, Mia Kang   

Grappling, Eddie Kim

Bone Symphony, Michelle Phương Hồ

Direct and Unavoidable Consequences, Isaac Pickell

Artifacts, Heidi Seaborn 

Chrome Pig, Glenn Shaheen

 

Chapbook Prize Finalists

Redapples falling still, Sneha Subramanian Kanta     

John Wilkes Booth's Dream, David Kirby

Derecho Diary, Becca Klaver

Lessons on How to Become a Bee, Patrick Lawler  

Ceasefire Haiku, Faisal Mohyuddin

If I Call This Cave a Garden, Caroline New

What We've Become, darlene anita scott  

Catalog of Shadows, Jaz Sufi    

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2023

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Full-length Book Prize Winners

all children., Shabnam Piryaei

No Rest, Jason Koo

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Chapbook Prize Winners

Difficult, Rewa Zeinati

BOOT-less →, Trace DePass

Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, Koss

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Full-length Book Prize Finalists

Ofrenda, Anaïs Deal-Márquez

PERISH / ABOLISH, Mia Kang

Book Content to Breathe Inside the Tree, Patrick Lawler 

Between the Sun and The Moon, Xiaoly Li

Slowly Our Faces Come Into View, Lea Marshall

Devil Music, Charlie Clark 

 

Chapbook Prize Finalists

Occurrence of a Dream Translated by Animals, M. Cynthia Cheung

Dreams of Labrador, Christopher Brean Murray

My Abandoned Poems, Owen McLeod

Frankie's Daughter, Haro Lee

DIDA, Karan Kapoor

The Mariachi at the End of Time, Christopher Nelson

Landscape for the Lost, Aiden Heung

Beneath Salt, Anna Tomlinson

Tapestry, Kirun Kapur 

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2022

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Full-length Book Prize Winners

The Badass Brontës, Jane Satterfield 

A Glossary of Light and Shadow, Esther Ra

The Corrected Version, Rosanna Oh

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Chapbook Prize Winners

#stringofbeads, Lee Ann Roripaugh

Self-Portrait in Hospital as Camus, Schneider K. Rancy

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Full-length Book Prize Finalists

Little Iliads, Jean Gallagher

Visitation, Steven Gehrke

Grappling, Eddie Kim

Some Animal, Fay Dillof

Boneyard Heresies, Tina Schumann

Happy Poems & Other Lies, Jeddie Sophronius

The Alcestis Machine, Carolyn Oliver

ENSŌ CAROUSEL, Partridge Boswell

RITES OF THE DA CAPO, Stella Wong

Noctuary, Taylor Supplee

 

Chapbook Prize Finalists

Mediaeval Sentences, Kathleen Winter

The Bent Resemblant, Paula Cisewski

On Night, Christopher Nelson

COUNTERPOINT, Jasmine An

said the Frog to the Scorpion, Matthew E. Henry

In Arcadia, Craig Beaven

Smelling Static, Steffan Triplett

Prerecorded Weather, Noah Falck & Matt McBride

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2021

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Full-length Book Prize

Night Swim, Joan Kwon Glass

Yearn, Rage Hezekiah

Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke, Eric Tran

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Chapbook Prize

She Has Dreamt Again of Water, Stephanie Niu

Of the Florids, Shawn Hoo

Sandman, Huan He

Cancer Voodoo, Melissa Johnson

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2020

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Full-length Book Prize

Where the Wolf, Sally Rosen Kindred

The Enemy of My Enemy Is Me, Conor Bracken

GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, Shanta Lee Gander

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Chapbook Prize

Faraway Places, Teow Lim Goh
Low Budget Movie, Kendra DeColo & Tyler Mills
Special Delivery, Natasha Sajé
Body Facts, Joey S. Kim
Slash / Slash, Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko

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2019

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Full-length Book Prize

Wider than the Sky, Nancy Chen Long

The Minister of Disturbances, Zeeshan Khan Pathan

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Chapbook Prize

The Last Human Heart, Allison Joseph

Good Timing & Gertrude Stein: Inside Snoopy's snout maggots feast upon my blood, Julia Cohen

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2018

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Full-length Book Prize

Revenge of the Asian Woman, Dorothy Chan

American Samizdat, Jehanne Dubrow

We Call Them Beautiful, KC Trommer

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Chapbook Prize

Returning to Jaffa, Philip Metres

Smoke Girl, Simone Person

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2017

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Full-length Book Prize

Go Because I Love You, Jared Harél 

the empty season, Catherine Bresner

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Chapbook Prize

Our Lady of the Flood, Alison Pelegrin

Red//Jild//Prayer, Hazem Fahmy 

Adoption, Adam Falkner

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2016

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Full-length Book Prize

Starlight & Error, Remica Bingham-Risher

quitter, Paula Cisewski

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Chapbook Prize

Rare Birds, Shelley Wong

Requiem: A Patrimony of Fugues, Tina Schumann

For Filthy Women Who Worry About Disappointing God, Seema Yasmin

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2015

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Chapbook Prize

Straight, sam sax

The Goddess Monologues, Vandana Khanna

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2012

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Chapbook Prize

Bright Power, Dark Peace, Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito

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