2017 Open Reading Period: Results

Thank you to all the beautiful geniuses who submitted to our 2017 Open Chapbook Reading Period. We were overwhelmed & awestruck by the incredible titles we received. After months of review, we've selected the following manuscripts for publication:

Lauren Milici, Final Girl (details forthcoming!)
Cornelia Barber, Let The Plants Grow Pink Metal (selected by Carrie Lorig)
Catherine Chen, Manifesto, or: Hysteria (selected by Kina Viola)
Amanda Galvan Huynh, Songs of Brujería (selected by Mark Cugini)
Finn Menzies, These are Our Beards of Bougainvilla (selected by beyza ozer)
Chloe Rose, The Fatbergs (selected by Kamden Hilliard)

The following manuscripts were selected as finalists:

Alexis Almeida, I Have Never Been Able to Sing
Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Eat Shit and Die
Hao Guang Tse, I get buzzed seeing your hand’s just left
Anna Gurton-Wachter, Utopia Pipe Dream Memory
Shannon Hearn, Tracing Circles In Dirt
Gabriel Oladipo, Emma
Charnell Peters, Whether or Not We Must Descend at All
Jesse Rice-Evans, Irreconcilability
John Rufo, Delete
Stacey Teague, karetaimoana
Sophia Terazawa, Notes for an Elegy
tc tolbert, Solving for X
Bev Yockelson, Hymn for Trans Bodies in the Wilderness of the Present Day
Ann Ward, Fever Colada

Thanks to everyone for submitting, and keep on the lookout for information regarding future open reading periods.

Mark Cugini