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Chapbook Prize
Gasher's Chapbook Prize awards publication + $300 and 10 author copies to a poet writing in English.

2025 Winner
Benjamin Niespodziany
Uncle Time
Benjamin Niespodziany is a Chicago-based writer whose work has appeared in Bennington Review, Fence, Indiana Review, Fairy Tale Review, Conduit, and elsewhere. Along with one book of microfictions (out with X-R-A-Y) and one book of poems (out with Okay Donkey), his writing has been featured in the Wigleaf Top 50 and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net. He is the host of the Neon Night Mic reading series and he recently launched Piżama Press. You can find more at neonpajamas.com.
Past winners
Winter 2024
Katie Jean Shinkle Transference
Spring 2024
Kristyn Garza Dictionary of Bodies
2023
Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild Elegies for the Undead
2022
Aaron Zhang Forgotten Hours
2021
Dan Mallette Letters to Harrison