The 2025 Gasher Press Book Award is open to any writer based in the United States, regardless of publication history. 

GUIDELINES:

• We accept poetry (hybrid works are welcome) books between 48-90pgs, excluding front and back matter.
• Simultaneous submissions are okay. Please withdraw your work immediately if it is accepted elsewhere.
• Once work is submitted, it can not be revised or edited. If your submission is selected, you will have the opportunity to submit a revised manuscript at that time. Please do not email revised versions of the original works or attach revisions to your submission on Submittable. We will not consider it.
• We only accept unpublished works. Sections previously published as a chapbook or individual poems are okay, but the manuscript as a whole should be unpublished. Self-publishing is considered published.
• This is a blind screening. Do not include any identifying information on the manuscript, including the file name. 
• Manuscripts must include a table of contents.
• No images are drawings within the manuscript are permitted.
• No preambles or bios in the manuscript.
• Feel free to include an acknowledgements page.
• Please include a bio and brief synopsis of the work in the designated fields on Submittable.
• Submit as .pdf or .docx, 12pt font. 
• This prize is open only to those who currently reside in the United States.
• The winner will receive $1,000 + 20 free copies upon publication.

JUDGING:

The prize will be judged by the Gasher Press staff. Each submission will be screened by at least two readers. From our semi-finalist pool, the editors will select a winner.