The 2021 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest — Winner and Finalists!

Congratulations to Abby Johnson, winner of the 2021 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Kazim Ali, and a sincere thanks to everyone who submitted. Thank you, also, for your patience while we reviewed all the extraordinary work this year. We’ll be publishing Johnson’s winning chapbook next spring. Congrats as well to all of these fabulous finalists and longlisters. You’ll see these books alive in the world sooner than later.


 

WINNER // $2000 + Publication in 2022

Selected by Kazim Ali

Opportunity Cost by Abby Johnson

“Opportunity Cost is a skillfully built sequence about grappling with the aftermath of assault. Ordinarily innocuous parts of language, like punctuation and the act of editing ones words, become powerful tools with which the poet explores the torturous ways we negotiate pain caused by those close to us. It is a unique book on an often difficult to navigate topic. I am grateful for it, grateful to the poet who crafted it.”

—Kazim Ali, Guest Judge

 

Abby Johnson is a poet and a Hoosier who is proud of the local art scene that fostered her. She is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing through Butler University. She is Poetry Co-Editor for Booth: A Journal. Her micro-chapbook No Line Except is published through Ghost City Press in their Summer 2019 collection ( https://ghostcitypress.com/2019-summer-microchap-series-1/no-line-except ). She has individual pieces published in Turnpike Magazine, Josephine Quarterly, The Indianapolis Review, and most recently in the Winter/Spring 2020 issue of Sycamore Review.

 

Honorable Mentions from Kazim Ali:

Will Russo, Dreamsoak
Ari Gtz Scz, Weather Tomorrow

Finalists:

K.D. Harryman, Alprazoland
Matthew Gellman, Night Logic
Caroline Chavatel, Issuance
Shawn Hoo, Of the Florids
Andre Hoilette, Cothilda, a flamewoman
Jeff Whitney, Thirteen Stories
Simon Shieh, Every Scar is an Eye

 

Poets on the Longlist:

Alice Turski
Andrew Vogel
Angela Long
Ann Shurgin
Arthur Kayzakian
Ben Meyerson
Brett Hanley
Bryce Frye
Caroline Mar
Chip Livingston
Colette Chien
Cynthia Young
David Hargreaves
David Maduli
David Moolten
Dennison Schultz
Elisabeth Murawski
Elizabeth Sackett
Emily Wolahan
Emma Gorenberg
Fatima Van Hattum
Gisselle Yepes
Jeff Whitney & Philip Schaefer
Jenna Kamal
John Haugh
Kara Olson
Katie Naughton
Kendall Grady
Landon McGee
Larry Kerschner
Lee Peterson
Linda Wang
Lisa Brimmer
Mary Jean Port
Megan Pinto
Michael Pearce
Nick Rattner
Noelle Sullivan
Peter Giebe
Ren Jie Kan
S. Hollis Mickey
Sam Stokley
Sean Cho A.
Seelai Karzai
Silk~
Suzanne Magee
Zach Horan

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