The Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize is awarded for a chapbook published in the last two years.

Submission Guidelines

• Information about how to send your chapbook is provided as part of the registration process.

All submissions are due by July 31, 11:59 pm ET.

Prize

Winners of chapbook contests will receive:

• $250 award
• 250 NEPC Award book-cover seals (gold or silver-foil stickers which identify the book as prize-winning)
• Opportunity to read during the online NEPC Prize-Winners’ Reading
• We also request permission to include one poem from the winning chapbook in the annual NEPC online anthology

Entry Fee

NEPC members may enter our contests at no charge. Please log in with the button above, using the email address associated with your membership.

Non-members: choose the Register button to submit your work, for a fee of $15 per book. You may choose to become an NEPC member prior to submission if you wish.