We are running a micro-chapbook contest from October 15, 2024 to January 1, 2025, limited to 50 submissions. We are looking for poetry chapbooks with 16-32 pages of poetry.
Our final editor will be Zorina Frey. Zorina is a Pushcart Prize winning poet, teacher, and publisher.
The contest fee is $15, submitters will receive a copy of the winning chapbook. The winning chapbook will be published by Fallen Tree Press and the poet will receive 5 copies of the chapbook.
To submit your chapbook, use our submission manager and select Bare Roots Contest from the genre dropdown. Follow the instructions to add your contact information and file and to pay the submission fee.
Why Bare Roots?
The “Bare Roots” theme will explore the idea of vulnerability, resilience, and the innate beauty of our foundational experiences. We invite readers to reflect on their own roots — family, culture, and experiences that have shaped them, and the growth that comes from embracing who we are at our core.
Zorina Exie Frey is a 2023 Pushcart Prize winner holding a master’s degree in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction from Converse University, a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications, majoring in Journalism with an English minor, and a web design certificate from Indiana University South Bend. She also holds a certificate in Literary Publishing from Emerson College. She is the Poetry Editor for South 85 Journal. Zorina’s most notable works are published in Glassworks Magazine, The Journal of Poetry for Therapy (Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2024), Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts (Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2024), and Chicken Soup for the Soul. She is a Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellow and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Voices of Color Fellow. Her screenplay, Harley Quinn Origin, received an honorable mention at the Birmingham Film Festival in the United Kingdom, and she was a semi-finalist for the reality TV pilot, Americas Next Great Author. She is also a search engine content creator and teaches college English in Maryland.
You can follow her at FB, IG, and Twitter: @zorinaexie Visit her site at https://zorina-frey.com/ Check out her magazine at https://zorina-frey.com/45-magazine/
