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QTBIPOC 2025 Poetry Manuscript Contest, Spring 2025

 Submissions are Closed

Announcing the 2023 QTBIPOC Prize

We would like to announce Kelsey Street Press’s 2025 QTBIPOC Book Prize! This is a FREE book contest open to QTBIPOC-identified, feminist, innovative writers/poets. The winning manuscript will be chosen by Andrea Abi-Karam, author of Villainy (Night Boat Books 2021) and EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019). The prize winner will receive publication along with a $1,000.00 cash award to help aid in book promotion, travel, event attendance, and a general contribution to the hopes of thriving as an artist. The contest is open for submissions from March 27-September 1 with the contest winner announced at the end of February 2026.

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