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Coal Hill Review and Autumn House Press are pleased to announce the Coal Hill Review Chapbook Competition: your chance to have your work featured as a special electronic chapbook in a standalone issue of Coal Hill Review.
Terrance Hayes will select the winner who will receive $250 and publication of his or her work as an online chapbook.
Review our guidelines below. We begin accepting submissions September 1st, and will continue to do so until the end of the year.
Sincerely,
The Editors
Coal Hill Review Chapbook Competition Guidelines
- Deadline is December 31st, 2008. Submissions will not be accepted after that date.
- This competition is open to all poets writing in English.
- There is a $15 reading fee paid through our Paypal account: (link forthcoming)
- Manuscripts should be 10 to 15 poems.
- Poems should not have been published previously.
- The winning chapbook will be published electronically as a special issue of Coal Hill Review, and the poet will receive $250.
- All finalists will be considered for publication in Coal Hill Review.
- The final judge for the competition is Terrance Hayes.
- Please address any questions to jstorey (at) autumnhouse.org with the words "CHAPBOOK COMPETITION QUERY" in the subject line.
- Manuscripts will not be reviewed until Paypal payment is confirmed.
Spring 2008 Authors
Kelli Russell Agodon
 Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of two books of poems, Small Knots and Geography, which won the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. Her poems have recently appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, and Notre Dame Review. Kelli graduated from the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University, where she received her MFA.
Jeffrey Christopher Alfier
 Jeffrey Christopher Alfier received an honorable mention for the Rachel Sherwood Poetry Prize. His publication credits include Crab Orchard Review, Georgetown Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review. He is author of a chapbook, Strangers within the Gate.
Jan Beatty
 Jan Beatty is the author of three books of poetry by the University of Pittsburgh Press. "In Helena" is from her most recent, Red Sugar, which is available here (link). She has worked as a waitress, a welfare caseworker, an abortion counselor, and a social worker in maximum security prisons. Currently, she directs the Creative Writing Program at Carlow University.
Peter Funk
 Peter Funk has studied with Kim Addonizio and Molly Fisk as well as in the San Francisco State University MFA creative writing program, though to him that experience seems a life time ago. His poems have appear in Haggard & Halloo, Poetry Motel, The Slate and forthcoming in Rattle.
Ross Gay
 Ross Gay's first book, Against Which, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2006. He has been honored by Foreword Magazine, The James Hearst Poetry Prize, the John Murillo best book award, and a high school student who said: "I think for the first time I actually understood a poet and all the metaphors and comparisons that they used." He teaches poetry at Indiana University and gives readings and workshops around the country.
Tim Hunt
 Tim Hunt's work has appeared in Epoch, Quarterly West, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, and other journals. He has won the Chester H. Jones National Poetry Competition, and his chapbook, Lake County Diamond, was published by Intertext Books. He currently teaches at Illinois State University, where Normal is a place.
Max King
 Maxwell King served as president of The Heinz Endowments in Pittsburgh from 1999 until 2008. Before that, he was editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer for almost eight years. He has been published in Tar River Poetry, The American Poetry Review, 5am, Confrontation and Paper Street, and is the author of numerous op-ed pieces in major newspapers.
Carole Oles
 Carole Simmons Oles is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Waking Stone: Inventions on the Life of Harriet Hosmer from University of Arkansas Press. For many summers, she was on the faculty at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont. She is currently Professor Emerita at California State University in Chico.
David Rivard
 David Rivard is the author of four books, including Sugartown and Wise Poison, the winner of the Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and, in 2006 was awarded the O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. This fall he will join the creative writing faculty at the University of New Hampshire.
Lori Romero
 Lori Romero's chapbook, Wall to Wall, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her short story, Strange Saints, was a semifinalist in the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. Her poetry and short stories have been published in more than sixty journals and anthologies. She is co-founder of the online literary journal Cezanne's Carrot (www.cezannescarrot.org).
Martin Willitts, Jr.
 Martin Willitts, Jr is currently a Senior Librarian in upstate New York. His recent publications include two online chapbooks, News From The Front on slowtrains.com and Words & Paper on threelightsgallery.com, and a print chapbook entitled Lowering Nets of Light from Pudding House Publications. His poem, "The Gate," is based on the digital artwork of Florin Mahai.
© 2008 Autumn House Press
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