New Delta Review is thrilled to announce our tenth annual chapbook competition. For this contest, we’re looking for manuscripts of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid work. We’re particularly interested in works that challenge traditional understandings of genre and form, though exceptional work of any aesthetic tilt are absolutely of interest. Our Tenth Annual Chapbook Competition is judged by poet, writer, and memoirist, Brandon Shimoda.

See a list of our past winners and judges here.

Judge: Brandon Shimoda
Prize: $250, publication, and 25 author copies
Deadline: February 3, 2021
Entry Fee: $8  

Submit here!

Additional Submission Guidelines

• All entries must be previously unpublished and original work of the entrant.
• All submissions require $8 entry fee and must be entered through Submittable.
• Manuscripts should be 20-35 pages in length and should include a title page with contact information. While individual pieces within the manuscript may be published elsewhere, the manuscript must be unpublished as a whole. If individual pieces have been published, writers can include an acknowledgments page at the end of the manuscript.
• Multiple submissions require separate entry fees.
• Simultaneous submissions are very welcome on the condition that you notify us of an acceptance as soon as possible.
• Submissions will first be reviewed by our staff before finalists are passed on to our judge.
• Family, close friends, and previous students of the judge are ineligible for participation in the contest. Current students and faculty of LSU are ineligible.

About this year’s judge:

Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award, and The Desert (The Song Cave, 2018). His forthcoming book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration received a Creative Nonfiction grant from the Whiting Foundation, and will also be published by City Lights. He lives with his family in Tucson, AZ.