2027 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award
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This award is given in honor of writer, teacher, and editor Jeanne M. Leiby, former editor of The Florida Review and The Southern Review. The award is for a single-author standalone chapbook of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Graphic Narrative, or a hybrid work. We do not consider poetry for the chapbook contest at this time.
You may submit a long story or essay, several short stories or essays, a flash prose collection, or a graphic narrative (black & white only). Please identify the genre(s) in your cover letter, and please include a Table of Contents with your submission.
Length limit: up to 45 pages, double-spaced, 12 pt. font. For graphic narrative, please submit a jpeg or PDF.
DEADLINE: January 7, 2027
PRIZE: Chapbook publication, 50 copies of the winning chapbook, and $1,000.
All entrants receive a free one-year subscription to The Florida Review.
Contest manuscripts should not have your name or other identifying information on any page. Please note that if your name is drawn into a panel of a graphic narrative, it should be blacked out (temporarily, for contest submission purposes only).
Pieces may be previously published in journals or anthologies but must not have appeared in a published story collection or essay collection, chapbook, or single-author volume of any kind. Finalists with previously unpublished selections may receive offers of journal publication by The Florida Review or Aquifer: The Florida Review Online.
Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as they are withdrawn immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
You also have the option to add on a copy of the winning chapbook to your submission at a discounted rate.