Despite being open for just two weeks, we were absolutely blown away by the interest in our chapbook submissions for 2019-2020 publication. In total, we received 68 manuscripts, with over two thousand pages of material!
We are so grateful to each and every author who sent in their work—compiling this list was made incredibly difficult by the quality of each and every manuscript.
Manuscripts were reviewed without identifying information, so it was especially exciting to find that a few of our former contributors were the authors behind these works—and even more so to discover several names that are entirely new to us here at N&S!
From the following manuscripts, we’ll create our shortlist of 10-15 chapbooks before choosing our final selections, which will be published by Nightingale & Sparrow Press between December 2019 and December 2020.
The Longlist
A Daughter for Mr. Spider – Megan Russo
All the Shades of Grief – Ellora Sutton
Animal Magic – Lynn White
Cemetery Music – Birdy Odell
Dichotomy – Mikhayla Robinson
Everything We Are Not – Sable R
Ghost Tapestry – Merril D. Smith
Gravity – Lynne Schmidt
Heal My Way Home – Rachel Tanner
heartbeats – Sarah Little
It All Started When the Challenger Exploded – Shannon Greenstein
Neon Ghosts – Alan Parry
once more – Briony Collins
one night stand – Paul Robert Mullen and Robynne Limoges
Pandora – Mollie Williamson
Red Rover, Red Lover – Preston Smith
Self – Sam Jowett
Singing the Earth Awake – Margaret Royall
Space Open Wide as Wishes – Kristin Ferragut
Summertime Fine – Jason B. Crawford
The Gull and the Bell Tower – Kari A. Flickinger
The Ocean’s Only Word – Lee Potts
The Rent Eats First – Eric Sirota
The Uncertainty of Light – Alana Saltz
Then It Changed – Devon Marsh
Shadows on Porcelain – Elizabeth Kemball
Wandering Womb – Morgan Russell
weightless – Constance Schultz
What Lasts Beyond the Burning – A. A. Parr
…And That Has Made All The Difference – K.T. Slattery
Micro: a mirochapbook of micropoems
