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How to Win a Book or Chapbook Contest

119AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Friday, March 25, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm

 

Many writers have completed a manuscript of prose or poetry and are ready to publish their book. However, the traditional agent-to-editor route may not be available. This panel discussion will provide advice on finding a suitable book contest and giving your manuscript the best chance of success. Past winners of book and chapbook contests will share their experience and knowledge. Also, a publisher of a small press that holds annual poetry and fiction contests will tell the inside story.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Book_Prize_Outline_2022_.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Thaddeus Rutkowski is author of seven books, most recently Tricks of Light, a poetry collection. His novel Haywire won an award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop. He teaches at Medgar Evers College and received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Joseph J. Capista is the author of Intrusive Beauty, selected for Ohio University Press’s 2018 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. He has received awards from the NEH, the Maryland State Arts Council, Sewanee, and Bread Loaf. He teaches at Towson University.

Christina Chiu is the winner of the 2040 Books' James Alan McPherson Award and the Kirkus Best Books of 2020. She is the author of Beauty and Troublemaker and Other Saints. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Publisher's Weekly, Electric Literature, NextTribe. She is a founder of AAWW.

Cecilia Martinez-Gil has published two full-length poetry collections, a fix of ink and the multi-award-winning Psaltery and Serpentines, and she cowrote the award-winning experimental video Itinerarios. She publishes poetry and journalism, teaches English and literature, and has four masters.

Robert L. Giron, poet/writer/editor, has won numerous awards for his own writing. As Gival Press editor/publisher, he runs annual contests for fiction and poetry; these 100+ books have gone on to win over 70 national and international awards since the literary press was established in 1998.

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