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2022 Micro-Chapbook Poetry Contest Results!

Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest

Congratulations to all our participants in the 2022 MAYDAY Micro-Chapbook contest! We’re pleased to announce This Body I Have Tried to Write by Ja’net Danielo as our winner, receiving the $1000 prize and publication at MAYDAY.

Next in line, on our shortlist were Like the Vultures by Ash Durrance, Mud (Fieldnotes from a Juvenile Psychiatric Institute) by Kelly Gray, formula for dissolving by Aimee Herman, and Nanny Fairchild Defies Immolation by Kathleen Jones.

Further finalists included Sugar Tongue Milk by Kelly Gray; Short History of Falling in the Midwest by Michael Levan; Remi, in the Night by Remi Recchia; My Family was like a Russian Novel by Carla Sarett; and Kaleidoscope Poison by Danae Younge.

Congratulations all around, and thank you to all our contributors for a successful and thrilling contest.

Further Reading

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by Simon Perchik

wobbling from some near-by breeze / reaching down as the hillside / where her shadow should be

SIBLINGS (FLIGHT FROM REGAN NATIONAL, WASHINGTON, D. C.) by Michelle Askin

You would have thought it was my sister who tried to die— not waking when the blood urine on my legs wet her beauty. Not waking until the nurse’s off the bed, you can stay but no sleeping together. Separating us as though we never floated in the same womb like bright specs from a lighthouse explosion. […]