All open calls for submissions are listed here. Check back for future open calls and visit gasherpress.com for more information regarding our prizes and open reading periods.

2026 Submissions Schedule:

Chapbook Open reading Open genre: February 2nd - May 1st 

Gasher Book Award: March 2nd - July 3rd

Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize: May 4th - July 3rd

Two Languages Book Prize: postponed due to low funding

Poetry Chapbook Prize: August 3rd - October 30th 

Full-Length Open Reading: August 3rd - October 30th

Gasher is looking for work that surprises us with its language, voice, and authenticity. We are excited by work that is deeply engaged in the nuances of craft, uniquely original in voice, and pushes creative boundaries. We are less interested in what’s currently “fashionable” and/or fits within the predictable mold of what makes poems “publishable.” While we welcome poetry that works in traditional forms, we believe in poetry that makes sense of and achieves its form (or lack thereof) as opposed to the poems’ forms existing for artifice’s sake. Similarly, we appreciate approaches to projects that are driven by a curiosity that leads language into unexpected corridors of thought, as opposed to the project working as a shell for language to play within. We are unamused by cleverness, vulgarity, hate, and/or violence.