This year The Poets Corner teamed up with Toad Hall Editions and the Camden Festival of Poetry to offer our 2024 Chapbook Contest with the distinguished poet, Marie Howe, as our contest judge.

Submissions are now closed. Winner will be announced at the Camden Festival of Poetry on May 18th.

What is a chapbook? In poetry, a chapbook is smaller in size than a full-length manuscript (20-40 pages) and usually related around a theme. For this contest, it is limited to 28 pages of poems.

The winner of the 2024 Chapbook Contest will receive a $1,000 prize, and the winning chapbook will be designed, printed and published by Toad Hall Editions. The winner will also receive 20 copies of the printed edition and the opportunity for a week-long retreat at Shannaghe in Belfast Maine. A reading with the contest winner is planned for The Poets Corner on Sunday, June 9th, with an introduction by our distinguished juror Marie Howe.

About Our Juror

Marie Howe is the author of five volumes of poetry, New and Selected Poems; Magdalene: Poems; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; The Good Thief; and What the Living Do, and she is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. From 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State.

Listen to Marie Howe: