2021 Pamphlet /Chapbook Competition
Guest Judge: Hannah Lowe
Deadline 9th April
This is a competition for pamphlets and chapbooks of fewer than 42 pages in publication. We are happy to consider much shorter submissions.
10 pamphlets will be long listed and 3 pamphlets will be published by the Live Canon Poetry Press in Autumn 2021
For full submission guidelines, visit our submittable page:
https://livecanon.submittable.com/submitHannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist and academic.
Her first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. In September 2014, she was named as one of 20 Next Generation poets. Her family memoir Long Time, No See (Periscope, 2015) featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Her second collection, Chan, is published by Bloodaxe. (2016). She has also published four chapbooks: The Hitcher (Rialto 2012); R x (sine wave peak 2013); and Ormonde (Hercules Editions 2014) and The Neighbourhood (Outspoken Press, 2019). She is currently working on a fifth chapbook for Hercules Editions about the old Chinatown at Limehouse. Her third full poetry collection, The Kids, is forthcoming with Bloodaxe. She undertook her AHRC-funded PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and now lectures in Creative Writing at Brunel University.
