2025 QTBIPOC Prize Open for Submissions

Submissions for the 2025 QTBIPOC Prize are now open. 

This book contest is open to QTBIPOC-identified, feminist, innovative writers/poets. The prize winner will receive publication along with a $1,000.00 cash award to help aid in book promotion, travel, event attendance, and a general contribution to the hopes of thriving as an artist.This prize continues Kelsey Street’s commitment to publishing a poetics of inclusion.

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The winning manuscript will be chosen by Andrea Abi-Karam, author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019).