Announcing the 2025 Harvard Review Chapbook Prize for a work of nonfiction of 15,000 to 30,000 words
The judge for this year’s prize is Jerald Walker, author of How To Make A Slave And Other Essays, which was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and winner of the 2021 Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction.
The winner will receive publication of their work in a limited-edition chapbook distributed by Harvard University Press and an invitation to read at Harvard University in the fall of 2025. The winning entry will be announced in the spring of 2025.
Submissions may be made through Submittable from October 15, 2024, through January 15, 2025. Submissions must be between 15,000 and 30,000 words. Paper submissions will not be accepted. Only one submission per person. Entries must be previously unpublished.
Entry Fee: $20. A limited number of fee waivers are available; instructions may be found in Submittable.
Past and current affiliates of Harvard Review, as well as writers with a personal, student-teacher, or mentoring relationship with the contest judge are ineligible for this prize. Harvard Review complies with the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) contest code of ethics.
