ALCOVE CHAPBOOKS

Alcove Chapbook Series Guidelines 

The Alcove Chapbook Series Contest opens for submissions annually. We announce the dates in our newsletter and on our social media platforms. The competition is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner will receive book publication, a $250 honorarium, and 25 copies of their book. All submissions will be considered for publication.  There is a nonrefundable $18 fee. 

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What we seek to publish

Please take a look at our books. We publish chapbooks of literary prose. Hybrid texts, lyric essays, collections of flash, mini novellas, long stories, braided essays, innovative approaches to memoir, biography, and journalism, experimental fiction and creative nonfiction: all are welcome. We’re drawn to intimate, relevant writing and to material that explores issues of contemporary significance on any theme or subject. We’re interested in works that extend the possibilities of or challenge the conventions of prose and welcome submissions that innovate and take risks.We don’t publish material we deem abusive or offensive. 

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The length of manuscripts will be ideally between 20 and 48 pages, but slightly shorter or longer is okay. Collections, excerpts from longer works that stand alone, and single longform works considered too long for journal publication but too short for full-length book publication are all welcome. ​

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Chapbooks must have a cohesion of some sort. In the case of collections, there must be an intentionality to the placement of the material together as a single body of work (art).

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We strongly encourage writers of traditionally underrepresented and marginalized communities and first-time authors to send us their work. 

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General guidelines​

Eligibility Requirements: ​

• We prefer manuscripts between 22 and 48 (double-spaced) pages, but slightly shorter or longer is okay. Each new piece should begin on a different page. The title page and table of contents do not count toward the total page count. 

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• We only accept chapbooks of literary fiction, literary nonfiction, or a form of prose somewhere between the two. We do not accept poetry. 

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• Chapbooks with new, unpublished work are preferred. Individual portions of the chapbook may have been published elsewhere, but the majority of the chapbook as a whole must be previously unpublished. 

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• We accept submissions only through our submission manager.

Full submission guidelines will be posted there when the contest is open for submissions.There is a $18 nonrefundable fee. Be sure to read and follow the guidelines on the submission manager page carefully. Submissions that don't follow the guidelines will not be considered and the fee will be forfeited.

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All submissions will receive a response through our submission manager to the email entered on the submission form.

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​​WTAW Press is committed to publishing the best work we can find, and we look forward to reading your manuscripts. Should we not receive manuscripts that fit our criteria for publication, we reserve the right not to publish manuscripts received during the open competition period.

Thank you for considering WTAW Press.

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