2021 OutWrite Chapbook Competition Winners
The three winners of the 2021 OutWrite Chapbook Competition have been announced: Dena Rod, poetry judge, selected Jason B. Crawford. Darcie Little Badger, fiction judge, selected Mari Ness. Chris Gonzalez, nonfiction judge, selected Hannah Soyer.
(L to R) Hannah Soyer, Jason B. Crawford, Mari Ness
Shortlisted fiction entries came from Hester J. Rook and Monica Wang. Shortlisted in poetry, Hester J. Rook again and Mandy May. Atavia Gahan was shortlisted in nonfiction. Thanks to all who submitted; it was an honor to read your work.
The winners of the OutWrite 2021 Chapbook Competition will be published in Fall 2021. The winners will also read from their winning manuscripts at the 11th annual OutWrite LGBTQ Literary Festival; learn more about that reading here.
More about each of the winners:
Jason B. Crawford (they/he) was born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut chapbook collection Summertime Fine is out through Variant Lit. Their second chapbook Twerkable Moments is due from Paper Nautilus Press in 2021. Their debut Full Length Year of the Unicorn Kidz will be out in 2022 from Sundress Publications.
Mari Ness is not quite as obsessed with fairy tales as her work would suggest. She lives in central Florida.
Hannah Soyer (she/her) is a queer disabled writer born and living in the Midwest. She is the founder of This Body is Worthy, a project aimed at celebrating bodies outside of mainstream societal ideals, and Words of Reclamation, a space for disabled writers. She is the editor of The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet, an anthology of poetry from disabled, chronically ill, and/or neurodivergent writers forthcoming from Sable Books, and her work has appeared in places such as The Rumpus, Disability Visibility Project, and Entropy. Hannah also happens to be a cat and chocolate enthusiast.
