Gasher is seeking chapbooks of any genre during our open reading period. 

GUIDELINES

• Please submit manuscripts between 20-37pgs of writing. 
• Please include a brief bio with your submission.
• We accept simultaneous submissions. Please, let us know immediately if your submission is accepted elsewhere.
• Once work is submitted, it can not be revised or edited. Please do not email revised versions of the original works or attach revisions to your submission on Submittable. We will not consider it.
• Manuscripts must be submitted as either .pdf or .docx
• No images that would need printing in color are allowed.
• Currently, Gasher Press is only accepting submissions for chapbooks from those who reside in the U.S.
• We publish perfect-bound chaps with ISBN. Our chapbooks are sold exclusively through the Gasher website and book fairs. Authors receive 10 copies of their chapbook upon publication.

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

We are pleased to announce this year's final judge is Melissa Kwasny!

Melissa Kwasny is the author of seven books of poetry, most recentlyThe Cloud Path (Milkweed Editions) and Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, University of Washington Press), as well as a collection of essays Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision. Her first full length nonfiction book, Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear, explores the cultural, labor, and environmental histories of clothing materials provided by animals. She is also the editor of two anthologies: I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poets in Defense of Global Human Rights and Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950.  She was Montana Poet Laureate from 2019-2021, a position she shared with M.L. Smoker.

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• We only accept unpublished works.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 preambles or bios in the manuscript.
• No acknowledgements in the manuscript, but you may submit this information in the cover letter field on Submittable.
• 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.
• Friends, current/past students, or affiliates of the editors and/or Melissa Kwasny are not permitted to submit. Current Gasher Press authors are not permitted to submit. 
• The winner will receive $1,000 + 20 free copies upon publication.

JUDGING:

Initial screening will be conducted by the Gasher staff. Each submission will be screened by at least three readers. From our semi-finalist pool, the final judge will select a winner and finalists.