Announcing the Winner of Slope Editions’ 5th Annual Chapbook Contest

Slope Editions is pleased to announce the results of our 5th Annual Chapbook Contest. We are thrilled to publish The Body Beside Herself by Julianne Neely in 2018!

Julianne Neely is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship and was awarded the 2017 John Logan Poetry Prize.  Her writing has been published in The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hobart, LEVELER, Pacifica Literary Review, New Orleans Review, and more. Find her online: @juleneely.

We also want to extend congratulations to our four finalists. We've read so many incredible manuscripts over the course of this reading period—thank you for entrusting Slope Editions with your work!

The Adversaria: Four Closet Dramas by Samuel Corfman
Since Sunday by Brittany Tomaselli
Billet Doux by E.C. Belli
Roses in May by Jill Mceldowney

“The answer is: Don’t just cog the machine.

Hold it under till it casts out the ghost.”

—Kit Frick, Echo, Echo, Light, Contest winner, 2013

We are happy to announce the opening of our Third Annual Chapbook Contest! Winner receives $100 + ten free copies! Submissions will be accepted through submittable, slopeeditions.submittable.com; please check there for guidelines & details!