2024-2025 Chapbook Contest Winners

Lisa Beech Hartz: 2024-25 Chapbook Contest Winner for These Kismets (poetry)

Lisa Beech Hartz directs Seven Cities Writers Project which brings writing workshops to underserved communities in the Tidewater Region of Virginia. She currently guides poetry workshops for men and women in three city jails. Her ekphrastic collection, The Goldfish Window, was published by Grayson Books in 2018. Poems from These Kismets were awarded the Scotti Merrill Prize by Billy Collins and the Key West Literary Seminar. Writing in response to the work of other artists is Lisa’s great passion, one she shares with her incarcerated writers. You can read their work here: sevencitieswriters.wordpress.com

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Allison Field Bell: Chapbook Runner-Up for Edge of the Sea (nonfiction/essays)

Allison Field Bell is a multi-genre writer originally from northern California. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Utah, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Without Woman or Body, forthcoming from Finishing Line, and her work appears in DIAGRAM, The Gettysburg Review, The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, The Cincinnati Re- view, Passages North, RHINO Poetry, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Find her at allisonfieldbell.com.

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Julie Marie Wade: 2024-25 Chapbook Runner-Up for Fisk, by Analogy (nonfiction/essay)

Julie Marie Wade writes and publishes poetry, prose, and hybrid forms. Her most recent and forthcoming collections include The Mary Years (Texas Re- view Press, 2024), selected by Michael Martone for the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, Quick Change Artist: Poems (Anhinga Press, 2025), selected by Octavio Quintanilla for the 2023 Anhinga Prize in Poetry, and The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020 (Harbor Editions, 2025), co-authored with Denise Duhamel. A recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Wade teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami and makes her home with Angie Griffin and their two cats in Dania Beach.

Fisk, by Analogy is now available for preorder! Copies are expected to ship by March 5, 2025. To order, please click the button below.