So incredibly thrilled to announce the winners of our 2023 chapbook contest!!!
Winner: MEANWHILE IN ARKANSAS by Carolyn Guinzio
Runner-Up: OKLAHOMA BESTIARY by Rachele Salvini
Judged by Jess Arndt
We've also just opened for prose submissions! There is a cap of 150 submissions, so act sooner rather than later. Full guidelines here. Can't wait to read your work! :)
We are officially open for Prose and Poetry submissions! Please only submit one entry per genre at a time! And remember: prose subs are capped at 500, poetry at 600… so get your work in asap!
We are officially open for Prose and Poetry submissions! Please only submit one entry per genre at a time! And remember: prose subs are capped at 500, poetry at 600… so get your work in asap!
We open for submissions in 5 days! We’re looking for writing that is, above all else, Different.
Different stomps in. Maybe it seeps in. Sometimes, and in our favorite works, different is always already there and it strikes flint and blazes.
Announcing our inaugural poetry & prose contests:
Winners receive $1000 & publication. Runners-up receive $250 & all entries are considered for publication.
Poetry Judge: Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Prose Judge: Jen George
Submissions open September 1!
We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2022 Chapbook Contest, judged by
@lutherxhughes
.
Congratulations to our winners, finalists, and honorable mentions, and sincere thanks to all who gave us the honor of reading their work.
More here:
Hi all! Creating a list of contributors here on Twitter/X. So, if you are a past contributor to QW , please DM or drop comment here so I can add you! Thank you! ❤️
We're open for our annual poetry and prose contests, judged by Eduardo C. Corral and Thalia Field! This weekend is free to submit for everyone--then it'll only be free for BIPOC writers. Send us your best--we can't wait to read it!
"You taught them to give head
the respect it deserves / red
them your poems through your paints / mixed
hot as a hung jury in Harlem. You’re welcome!"
from "Basquiat, Three Ways" by Linette Marie Allen, finalist in QW's 2020 Contest in Prose
@theclaudster
Hi Claudia, this is J.P. Grasser, EIC at Quarterly West. Having just been alerted to this, I've checked all of our mailboxes, but haven't been able to find any correspondence from you. We absolutely want to start a dialogue. Would you mind resending/posting a screenshot?
Welcome to Issue 102! Featuring the winners of our contests in poetry & prose: Kanika Ahuja & Jakob Konger.
We're also delighted to share new work by
@TruthSinVerdad
, Jacquelyn Bengfort, Despy Boutris, C.S. Carrier, Erika Goodrich, Nnadi Samuel, & more!
Our 2021 chapbook contest winner Mukethe Kawinzi is at the QW booth ready to sign copies of her beautiful book for y’all! Come on over to booth 358 to get your copy!
#AWP22
We are giddy to announce the winners, runners-up, honorable mention, & finalists for our 2022 Contests in Prose & Poetry.
Profound thanks to our judges
@aminamemory
& Sally Wen Mao, & to all of our genre editors & readers for their tireless work on this year's contests!
We are thrilled to announce our Best Small Fictions nominees for this year. Congratulations and best of luck to
@ClaireHongpoet
,
@sabzi_k
,
@suyeelin
,
@MandiraPattnaik
, and Ayotola Tehingbola! We are cheering for you! ❤️🔥
It might be 2021, but we want to share our most-read piece of 2020 with you. "Civilization" by
@ErinAdairHodges
is an absolute stunner. Spend some time with this gorgeous poem, and poke around Issue 99 to read more from our fabulous contributors.
More info on our March 15th submission window: Prose will be capped at 500 submissions, Poetry at 600 submissions…so mark your calendars and submit sooner rather than later!
Dear Readers, Friends, & Neighbors,
Please read the attached statement in reference to the plagiarism controversy surrounding work we published in Issue 91. We intend to be transparent with you & welcome your feedback--always, always.
Eds.
Have you submitted to our annual chapbook contest--this year judged by the fantastic Jess Ardnt--yet? There's still time! We look forward to reading your work!
The submission deadline for our 2022 Chapbook Contest, judged by
@lutherxhughes
, has been extended to Monday, August 15th! $10 submission fee. $1000 prize for the winner. Winner, runner-up, and 1-2 editors' picks will be published!
Learn more & submit:
Our Chapbook Editors proudly holding the titles they've shepherded from Word doc/pdf to bound book, freshly unboxed from FedEx—the mood in the QW office today can only be described as euphoric. 🥹♥️
We are open to submissions for a special issue themed EXTRACTION.
While our main focus will be a critical examination of the destructive effects of extraction capitalism as it currently exists, we also welcome pieces that imagine other possible futures.
"Or maybe it’s only memory, in the end, that turns
some men into flags – anything from ownership to conquest
to Here I stopped to rest, once, but I couldn’t stay"
--Carl Phillips (
@CPhillipsPoet
)
We're excited to share Issue 96! The issue features work from Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Holli Carrell, Grady Chambers, Jeremy Burke, Meg Eden, Rebecca Fishow, Gina Franco, Dan Hodgson, Jess Jelsma, Charles Nutter Peck, Kyle Adam Kalev Peets, &...
Our 2022 Contests in Poetry & Prose (judged by Sally Wen Mao &
@aminamemory
) are OPEN! No fee to submit this weekend; still free for BIPOC writers thereafter. $500 to the winner of each genre, & every entry is considered for publication!🍁🍂
Learn more:
"Like / the world, which began as a pea-sized notion under / the mattress of an over-sensitive girl, I grew vast, too vast, / it was said, for my landscape’s monsters"
--Diane Seuss (
@dlseuss
)
We're so saddened to learn of the passing of former contributor, Zoe Mungin, from COVID-19.
Please join us in remembering her vivid and unforgettable work by reading her story "Love, from Mexico" here:
We're thrilled to announce the winner, runner-up, & editors' choices for our 2020 Chapbook Contest. Congratulations to Benjamin Gucciardi, Katherine MacCue, Alice Hall, & Penelope Pelizzon! We can't wait to bring these divine books into the world in spring 2021!
We are incredibly delighted to announce the winners, runners-up, & finalists for our 2021 Contests in Prose & Poetry!
Endless thanks to our judges
@criveragarza
& Douglas Kearney, & to all of our genre editors & readers for their tireless work on this year's contests!
We're so excited to cohost a reading with the wonderful folks from Adroit, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill, and Western Humanities Review on Friday at AWP. Look at that list of readers! Hope to see you there!
Our second annual contests in poetry & prose are officially open for submissions! $500 to the winners. $200 to runners-up. And even better: no submission fee.
Send us your fiercest ditties, your most delectable stories & essays:
"Men who don’t express their feelings learn to speak in bar fights.
I learned to sing in a womb."
--from "An Honorable Everyman" by
@jasminedreame
in Issue 106
We are currently accepting submissions for our 2021 Chapbook Contest, judged by the fabulous
@tctigercakes74
. Send us your best—we can’t wait to read your words.
This year's finalists:
Maxwell Rabb, Faster, the Whirl Wheel
@megg_bean
, In Heaven There Will Be No Bodies
@BrentAmeneyro
, Puebla
Wendy Oleson, Everywhere, Tony Danza
@kb_pfotenhauer
, Collecting the Body
Sierra Lindsay, Herethere
@gaysreadbooks
, Other Places We Learned Religion
We are also looking to promote our fellow journals / presses and would like to help share open reading periods/contests, so please DM us if you’d like us to share something! ❤️
We can't wait to share the amazing work by our winners, runners-up, and finalists in our second annual contests in poetry and prose!
Our heartiest of congratulations to all and deepest gratitude to the readers, editors, and judges who made the contest a success.
We're delighted to announce our 2020 Pushcart Prize nominations. Many thanks to Amber Burke,
@hgtvdeathdrive
,
@jamesdavismay
, Rebecca Cross, Douglas Koziol, & Chekwube O. Danladi for trusting us with their fine work.
Happy New Year from all of us at Quarterly West!
We're kicking off 2021 with 2 calls for submissions for upcoming special features on DOMESTICATION and 100 SYLLABLES. Find more info on each in our Submittable portal. We look forward to reading your work!
Douglas Kearney has selected Onyekachi Iloh’s “It Is Once Again The Season of Corn” as winner of the 2021 Contest in Poetry and
@really_nora
's “In the Far Present” as runner-up.
Congrats to our winner and runner-up! Look out for these poems in our upcoming spring issue.
"I cradle the part of me that begs to bloom. I wonder what might have happened—not if God had left us alone, but if we refused what He offered."
--from "Daughter Triptych by
@caesarah_
in Issue 105
We've got a new issue cooking for y'all, but in the mean time submissions remain open for our inaugural contests in poetry & prose--judged by Natalie Scenters-Zapico & Jen George.
Deadline 11/1.
Send us your fire, your fiercest ditties & stories.
Hello Twitter / X world: we’ve got news! I,
@AFB16
, am taking over as Social Media Editor. And what’s more: I’d love to help share the successes of former contributors here. If you are a former contributor, please feel free to email me your news: quarterlywestsocials
@gmail
.com
We are 50 subs away from our cap for poetry, and 100 subs away from our cap for prose!
Last chance to submit—no fee. We can't wait to read your work. 🌷
We're still heading to
#AWP20
, so if you'll be there, come and check us out at the book fair and consider attending our two readings. Thursday 6:30-10 at Casa Rio and Friday 4-5:30 at CommonWealth Bakery. If you won't be there, as always, our latest issue is free online!…
Hungry to read gorgeous, innovative writing and be connected with a wonderful literary community? QW is seeking poetry and prose readers! Apply to join our staff magic below:
This year at AWP, we're participating in not one, but two readings! For reading
#1
, we're so happy to be joining with friends
@32poems
@BPJTweets
@CrazyhorseLitJo
and
@poetrynw
in what will surely be a stellar night of poetry!
So thrilled that this chapbook will be in the world soon through
@BullCityPress
! We love the writings of
@frecklywench
and as a teaser for the book, we want to reshare the incredible “Operation Hecuba”
writerly update & a wee cover reveal! my fiction chapbook, THE THEME PARK OF WOMEN'S BODIES, is forthcoming from
@BullCityPress
on September 17th, 2024 & I can't wait for you all to read my weird little stories!
Amazing news from former contributor
@SnehaKantaS
!!! Pre-order “Ancestral-Wing” from
@porkbellypress
You can also read Sneha’s QW piece “5 Ways to Grieve” here:
Dear friends, my chapbook "Ancestral-Wing" is available for a discounted pre-order from
@porkbellypress
. Pre-orders help an independent press and the author: .
Here's a poem for my father, first published in
@RoomMagazine
, which will be in this collection.
"The French word for apple sounds a little
like poem. We hear poem, with our English ears.
The fruit that sent Eve and her blaming man
to ruin, and pain, and the wearing of socks."
from "Apple Sonnet" by
@jacib
, finalist in QW's 2020 Contest in Poetry
Don't miss this amazing reading—a stellar line-up which features QW authors Mukethe Kawinzi,
@MyloLam
,
@nakedcentaur
, & Kieron Walquist!
There'll be free food & drink at the start of the event. Could there be a better way to start your
#awp2023
?
Very fittingly for fall, we are ALSO open for submissions to a special feature on VANITAS, curated by former QW EIC Amy Sailer!
"Even at their most beautiful, the flowers are already dying. The meat and the fruit smell all the more powerful for a faint whiff of decay."
Happy Publication Day to our 2021 chapbook contest winner Mukethe Kawinzi! We are thrilled to release saanens, nubians, one lamancha!
Buy your copy here:
We're giddy to launch the new slate of titles in the QW Chapbook Series:
TIMELESS TIPS FOR SIMPLE SABOTAGE by Benjamin Gucciardi
CASSANDRA, CASSANDRA by Katherine MacCue
OF VINEGAR OF PEARL by Penelope Pelizzon
UNIVERSAL CASKET by Alice Hall
Purchases: