Many thanks to all those who submitted manuscripts to the Split Rock Press Poetry Chapbook Series. We were so fortunate to receive hundreds of submissions and selecting which to move forward was an incredibly difficult task. We’re thrilled to announce the winners and finalists of the 2021 Split Rock Press chapbook competition.

WINNERS

Leaving Earth by DJ Hills

Autobiography by Rebecca Macijeski

DJ Hills (@deejhills) is a writer and theatre artist from the Appalachian Mountains. Their writing appears most recently in SmokeLong Quarterly, wigleaf, and Oyster River Pages. Find them online at www.dj-hills.com.

Rebecca Macijeski is Creative Writing Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a BA in English and Music from Simmons College (now Simmons University). She has attended artist residencies with The Ragdale Foundation, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Art Farm Nebraska. She's worked for Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry newspaper column, worked as an Assistant Editor in Poetry for Prairie Schooner and Hunger Mountain, and is the recipient of a 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee, her poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, Conduit, Poet Lore, Barrow Street, Nimrod, The Journal, Sycamore Review, Fairy Tale Review, Puerto del Sol, and many others. Follow her on Twitter at @RMacijeski, or read more of her poems at www.rebeccamacijeski.com.

RUNNER-UP

Field Guides by Ray Ball

Finalists

(in alphabetical order)

My National Parks by Jacob Boyd

The Fisherman's Map by Mark Caskie

Written in Nature by Nancy Cook

alchemy of yeast and tears by Patricia Davis-Muffett

Okjökull by Elizabeth Jacobson

Hallucigenalia by Cindy King

How to Find a Black Hole in Your Kitchen by Dana Kroos

LUX by Molly Sturdevant

Blood Moon, Backyard Mountain by Rodd Whelpley