The Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards 2024

The Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards are international annual prizes for unpublished small collections of haiku, tanka, and other short poetry.

The closing date for entries is July 31, 2024.

The winners will be announced on September 30, 2024.

Award winners have their collections published online by Snapshot Press.

Previous winners are: Frances Angela, Ama Bolton, John Brandi, Alan S. Bridges, Allan Burns, Matthew Caretti, Simon Chard, Margaret Chula, Glenn G. Coats (x2), Susan Constable, Cherie Hunter Day, Lorin Ford, Carolyn Hall, Simon Hanson, Penny Harter, Jean James, Roger Jones, Kristen Lindquist, Carole MacRury, Beverly Acuff Momoi, Peter Newton, Colin Oliver, Marian Olson, Kathe L. Palka, Thomas Powell (x2), Vanessa Proctor, Kala Ramesh, Bob Redmond, Chad Lee Robinson, Michele Root-Bernstein, Cynthia Rowe, Debbie Strange, George Swede, Lew Watts, Rich Youmans, and Karina M. Young.

Entry Guidelines
and Terms and Conditions

Closing date
Your work
Where to send your entry
Entry fee
Results
Correspondence
Adjudication
Rights

1. Closing date

The closing date for entry to the Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards is July 31, 2024.

2. Your work

Your collection should consist of 8–24 short poems (of any genre).

Individual poems can be of any length from 1–25 lines (including any blank lines between stanzas). Prose poems (and haibun) should not exceed 200 words. Poems may be titled or otherwise.

Poems may be published or unpublished, but present or earlier versions must not have previously appeared in a published individual collection (i.e. a single-author book or e-book) of any length.

Your manuscript should be in English and must be entirely your own work. The title of your collection should appear on every page of the manuscript.

Your name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. A cover sheet should include your name, address, email address, and the title of the collection.

3. Where to send your entry

Entries may be sent by email or post.

Email entries should be sent to submissions AT snapshotpress.co.uk with the subject line "eChapbook Awards – Your Name" (e.g. eChapbook Awards – Joanne Smith). Electronic manuscripts and cover sheets should be sent as MS Word or PDF files attached to the email, or everything may be sent in the body of the email.

Postal entries should be mailed to Snapshot Press, Orchard House, High Lane, Ormskirk, L40 7SL, United Kingdom. Manuscripts sent by post should be printed, typed or written legibly on one side of the paper only.

Postal entries must be postmarked on or before the closing date.

4. Entry fee

The entry fee for the Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards is £15 or US $20.

The entry fee (for both email and postal entries) may be paid online below using a credit card, a debit card, or a PayPal account.

Entry fee (£15):

Entry fee (US $20):

Alternatively, the entry fee may be sent by post. Please note that we can only accept cheques, postal orders and money orders in sterling (made payable to Snapshot Press); sterling banknotes; US dollar bills; or Euro banknotes at the same rate as US dollars. No other forms of payment will be accepted. (Unfortunately, we are no longer able to process US dollar checks or international money orders.)

You may enter as many manuscripts as you wish provided each is accompanied by an entry fee.