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2022 Micro-Chapbook Poetry Contest Results!

August 29, 2022

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.

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: August 29, 2022

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