Poetry Chapbook Semifinalists 2025

We're pleased to announce the 20 semifinalists in the 2025 Wolfson Press Poetry Chapbook Prize competition. Follow the links to see how amazingly multi-talented this group is.

We're grateful to all of the poets who submitted manuscripts this year. We look forward to announcing the short list of finalists soon.

Linda Arntzenius, Should Have Known

Ali Beheler, All Our (Un)Makings

Dan Butler, The Unexpected

Hadley Dion, Tomb-Toothed

Christopher Dornin, If the gods of the world turned dark

Hollie Dugas, Small Gods in the Dark

Suzanne Edison, All Night I Wrestle

Anna Evas, Petals

Judith Fox, Bridge to New Music

Sera Gamble, Our Lady of the Sick Girls

Romana Iorga, Witness Protection

Kathryn Lasseter, Jussive

Christopher McCormick, Invertebrate City

Brittany Micka-Foos, The Suffering Inventory

Mamie Morgan, Anti-Gone

Carla Sarett, Thinking About Sad Chicken

Randi Schalet, The Last Things I’ll Remember

Marc Sheehan, This Might Be Home

Mark Taksa, Let the Bag Drop

Emma Wynn, At the Jewish Deli