Brain Mill Press Chapbook Contest
Submit: April 1-May 15, 2024
Reading & Screening: May-July, 2024
Winner Announced: August
Final Judge: Tracy Mishkin
Chapbook Release: Spring 2025
WFOP is collaborating with Brain Mill Press in a chapbook contest open to all Wisconsin poets for an unpublished chapbook. The winning chapbook will be published by Brain Mill Press with an expected publication date of Spring 2025.
The new contest is a joint effort by WFOP and Brain Mill Press and aligns with both WFOP’s mission to broaden its reach with new audiences and Brain Mill Press’s commitment to publish titles by under-represented authors.
Submission call details:
Open to all Wisconsin poets, with a particular interest in voices under-represented in traditional publishing, such as writers of color, women, indigenous voices, disabled writers, queer writers.
Eligible manuscripts will be 18-30 pages in length.
WFOP will award $250 to the winning chapbook.
Brain Mill Press will provide a standard royalties-bearing publishing contract with ISBN, print and e-book formats.
Brain Mill Press will also provide design and publishing support.
Entries will be accepted through the Submittable portal. Entry is limited to one chapbook per submitter.
Contest open April 1 through May 15, 2024.
About Tracy Mishkin
Tracy Mishkin is a call center veteran with a PhD and a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Butler University. Her first full-length book, The Way The Salt Falls, will be published by Main Street Rag in 2024. She is the author of three chapbooks, I Almost Didn’t Make It to McDonald’s (Finishing Line Press, 2014), The Night I Quit Flossing (Five Oaks Press, 2016), and This is Still Life (Brain Mill Press, 2018). She lives in Indianapolis with her family and fewer than ten cats and dogs.
For more information:
C. Kubasta, WFOP Vice-President
wfopvpres@gmail.com
Need Help with Your Chapbook?
WFOP recently hosted a Zoom workshop on chapbooks, hosted by WFOP Vice-President C. Kubasta. Reference it here.
WFOP also encourages prospects to consider workshops being offered by other arts organizations, including:
Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts - https://shakeragalley.org/
Art + Literature Laboratory, Madison - https://artlitlab.org/programs/literary-arts
Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee - https://woodlandpattern.org/poetry
Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, Eau Claire - http://www.cvwritersguild.org/events
About Brain Mill Press
Brain Mill Press, based in Green Bay, is a midsize traditional publisher, producing 15-20 books each year in fiction of all genres, memoir, and poetry, as well as a digital magazine, VOICES, that highlights essays, opinion, commentary, and poetry by emerging and established writers and makers. Learn more at https://www.brainmillpress.com/
About Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets
WFOP, founded in 1950, is a non-profit organized around reading, writing, and advocating poetry. WFOP was created exclusively for literary purposes with the hope that Wisconsin could become more aware and appreciative of our poets and poetic heritage.