ALCOVE CHAPBOOKS

WTAW Press announces its second annual Alcove Chapbook Series Open Competition. We are pleased to provide a platform to support the efforts of more writers and to welcome new writers and readers into the WTAW Press community. 

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From June 30—August 15, 2023, we will accept submissions of unpublished chapbooks of prose. The competition is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner will receive book publication, a $250 honorarium, and 25 copies of their book. All submissions will be considered for publication and finalists selected for publication will receive 10 copies of their books. There is a nonrefundable $15 fee. 

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What we seek to publish

Please take a look at the books WTAW has published. We publish enduring books of literary prose. We’re drawn to intimate, relevant writing and to material that explores issues of contemporary significance on any theme or subject. We don’t publish material we deem abusive or offensive. 

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The length of manuscripts will be ideally between 20 and 48 pages, but slightly shorter or longer is okay. Collections, excerpts from longer works that stand alone, and single longform works considered too long for journal publication but too short for full-length book publication are all welcome. 

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Hybrid texts, lyric essays, collections of flash, mini novellas, long stories, braided essays, innovative approaches to memoir, biography, and journalism, experimental fiction and creative nonfiction: all are welcome.

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We’re interested in works that extend the possibilities of or challenge the conventions of prose and welcome submissions that innovate and take risks.

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Chapbooks must have a cohesion of some sort. In the case of collections, there must be an intentionality to the placement of the material together as a single body of work (art).

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We strongly encourage writers of traditionally underrepresented and marginalized communities and first-time authors to send us their work. 

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General guidelines

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Eligibility Requirements: 

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• We prefer manuscripts between 22 and 48 (double-spaced) pages, but slightly shorter or longer is okay. Each new piece should begin on a different page. The title page and table of contents do not count towards the total page count. 

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• We only accept chapbooks of literary fiction, literary nonfiction, or a form of prose somewhere between the two. We do not accept poetry. 

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• While individual portions of the chapbook may have been published elsewhere, the majority of the chapbook as a whole must be previously unpublished. Chapbooks with new, unpublished work are preferred. 

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We accept submissions only through our submission manager. The submission manager will open on June 30, 2023. There is a $15 nonrefundable fee. Be sure to read and follow the guidelines on the form carefully. Submissions that don't follow the guidelines will not be considered and the fee will be forfeited.

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Full submissions guidelines can be found on our submissions page and in the submissions manager. 

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WTAW Press is committed to publishing the best work we can find, and we look forward to reading your manuscripts. Should we not receive manuscripts that fit our criteria for publication, we reserve the right not to publish manuscripts received during the open competition period.

All submissions will receive a response through our submission manager to the email entered on the submission form.

Thank you for considering WTAW Press.

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