Today’s the day: here are the semifinalists and finalists of the Spring 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition! We’ve narrowed it down to 10 finalists and 12 semifinalists, which was not easy! We received many compelling manuscripts, and we deeply appreciate every one of you. Thank you for trusting us with your work, and thank you to the BRCC editorial team for your time & care.
An editorial panel consisting of BLP editors and judges (BLP chapbook authors, including previous BRCC winners) read each entry without identifying information. Every entry was kept anonymous until today, so we can unveil the lists to you!
To all the semifinalists, congratulations & thank you!
We will announce the winner from among our list of finalists shortly.
FINALISTS
Bright Dancing Fools (prose) by Meghana Mysore
Glandscapes (poetry) by Mickie Kennedy
How to Translate a Wound (prose) by an chang joon
Is (poetry) by Anne-Marie Thompson
Love Shine (prose) by Elizabeth Cohen
Pretending Not to be Dangerous (poetry) by Amanda Chiado
Red Sky (poetry) by Shlagha Borah
Ruth \ˈrüth \ (n.) (poetry) by Avia Tadmor
Sky Tongued Back with Light (poetry) by Sébastien Luc Butler
Viva Magenta! (poetry) by Rebecca Myers
SEMIFINALISTS
Aria & Arson (poetry) by Dominique Dusek
Aubade with Factory and Rain (poetry) by Tatiana Gómez
Backlit (poetry) by Liz Robbins
Every Time the World Ends (prose) by joaquin Fernandez
Giving Way to Light (poetry) by Laura Villareal
Heavy Branch (poetry) by Christine Marshall
If I Call This Cave a Garden (poetry) by Caroline New
Little Bat Daycare (prose) by Michael Giddings
Queer History (poetry) by James Brunton
Scrolls for Blue Bottle Trees (prose) by Sarah Cheshire
Severance (poetry) by Azia Armstad
Sister, It All Burns (poetry) by Jennifer Pons
**If you submitted a chapbook manuscript to our June Open Reading Period, please know that we are still reading and considering submissions, and responses will be sent out on a rolling basis this fall.