We’re thrilled to announce the results of the 2022 Split Rock Press Poetry Chapbook Series. Congratulations to the following poets and thanks to everyone who submitted manuscripts to the chapbook competition!

SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTHORS (in alphabetical order)

Cautionary Tale by Willa Carroll

Willa Carroll is the author of Nerve Chorus (The Word Works). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, LARB Quarterly Journal, Poem-A-Day, The Slowdown, Tin House, and elsewhere. A finalist for The Georgia Poetry Prize, she won Narrative Magazine’s Third Annual Poetry Contest and Tupelo Quarterly’s TQ7 Poetry Prize. Her poetry videos and multimedia collaborations have been featured in Interim, Narrative, TriQuarterly, Writers Resist, and the Nature & Culture Film Festival in Denmark. She was awarded Best Poetry Film at the 2021 International Migration and Environmental Film Festival.

How to Keep Things Alive by Beth Gordon

Beth Gordon is a poet, mother and grandmother currently living in Asheville, NC. She is the author of Morning Walk with Dead Possum, Breakfast and Parallel Universe (Animal Heart Press); Particularly Dangerous Situation (Clare Songbirds Publishing) This Small Machine of Prayer (Kelsay Books); and The Water Cycle (Variant Literature). Beth is Managing Editor of Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Assistant Editor of Animal Heart Press, and Grandma of Femme Salve Books. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @bethgordonpoet.

Vernal by Kateri Kosek

Kateri Kosek’s poetry and essays have appeared in such places as Orion, Terrain, Catamaran, and Creative Nonfiction, where, most recently, she was awarded for best essay. Her poetry has won Briar Cliff Review’s contest, and has been a finalist at Flyway, Writers at Work, Rosebud, and Arts & Letters. She teaches college English and mentors in the MFA program at Western CT State University, where she earned an MFA. She has been a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Tallgrass Artist Residency in Kansas. She lives in western Massachusetts.

FINALISTS

The Afterforest by Brent Armendinger

Heavy Bloom by Angelina Brooks

Underground World by Scott Davidson

Conference of the Birds by Robert Gibb

SEMI-FINALISTS

Season of Seeds by Nick Conrad

Bless the Doors that Lock Both Ways by Megan Merchant

The Three Crooked Trees by Tim Moder

HONORABLE MENTION

Worm Dreams by Betsy Bolton

The Swan by Michael Hettich

North of December by Barbara Ponomareff