Announcing the Winners of the 2026 WD Chapbook Poetry Awards
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 WD Chapbook Poetry Awards!
Congratulations to all the winners of the 1st Annual Writer's Digest Chapbook Poetry Awards! Read the winning chapbook and an interview with the first-place winner, Brian Cameron, in the July/August 2026 issue of Writer's Digest or here on the blog.
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- Finding Tiamat: A Book for Broken Democracies by Brian Cameron
- The Museum of Forgotten Things by Julie Butler
- Tiny Poem Tuesday by Tamara Erickson
- The Durable Gift by J.D. McGee
- Acapella by DUGGAN
- Allow by Patsy Creedy
- Things I Found in a Dead Man’s Pocket and Selected Poems by Chuck Collins
- Finriffle by Pamela Lerner Hines
- love is a loaded gun by James Jones
- Odd Birds Flocking by Shannon Keil
- Lived Fragments by Marielle Bethelle
- THE DISPLACED by Paula Brancato
- Short Songs by Mel Konner
- Telemachus Dreams by Stephen Jones
- Sway by Charles Gillispie
- Achieving Being by Alexis Verdini
- WHEN YOU GO AWAY, I PRETEND THAT YOU'RE DEAD by B. Fulton Jennes
- DANCING TO BLUEBELLS, a haiku chapbook by Kenda Turner
- Growing Up Girl by Beth McCullough
- Beyond Blood by Susan Chambers
- When Vietnam Calls by Minh-Tam Le
- Shadows and Their Sonnets by Laurie Holding
- blueBlack magic: a family archived in poems by Kendra N. Bryant Aya
- But It Doesn't Mean That I Don't Love You Anymore by Joyce Schmid
- Distaff: Voices by Terri Simon
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