Contests
Snapshot Press currently holds the following contests:
The Haiku Calendar Competition
The Haiku Calendar Competition has been held annually since 1999 and is now into its fifteenth year. As a result of the contest 52 haiku are published each year in The Haiku Calendar. For further details please follow the links below:
The Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards
The Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards are international annual prizes for unpublished short collections of haiku, tanka, short poetry and haibun.
The Award winners will have their collections published online by Snapshot Press. There may be up to eight Award winners each year. The winning eBooks will be made freely available on the Snapshot Press website, with the potential to reach a far wider audience than limited print editions.
A print anthology, featuring a selection of the best individual poems and haibun entered into the contest, will be published by Snapshot Press after the eBooks have been published. Each entrant will receive a copy of the print anthology.
Submissions are open from March 1–July 31. The winners will be announced on October 31 and the eBooks will be published two to three months later.
The Snapshot Press Book Awards
The Snapshot Press Book Awards are international annual prizes for unpublished book-length collections of haiku, tanka, short poetry and haibun.
The Award winners will have their collections published in paperback or hardback by Snapshot Press. There may be up to four Award winners each year.
Submissions are open from July 1–November 30. The winners will be announced on April 30 the following year and published six months later.
Please see the guidelines for details.
The Snapshot Press Collection Competition
Inaugurated in 1998, this contest provided a rare and equal opportunity for authors to have a collection published, regardless of reputation and publishing history. Collections published as a result of this contest have been honored by the Haiku Society of America and The Poetry Society of America.
This contest was replaced in 2011 by the Snapshot Press Book Awards (for book-length collections) and the Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards (for short collections).