Vallum is so pleased to congratulate the winners of this year’s Chapbook Award!
Congratulations to all three poets for their outstanding work.
2025 Vallum Chapbook Award Shortlist
We’re honoured to share the shortlist for the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award.
Each manuscript: a world. Each poet: a force.
Thank you to all who submitted.
Interview by T. Liem with Ockert Greeff // Winner of the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award (No. 39)
Congratulations on winning the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award with A Mass Choir of Little Things!
T. Liem: In this work images and memories accumulate with a weighted pace, whole stanzas repeat like time-slowing refrains, and certain words become chant-like as in “A Letter from The Sea” with sea and see. This feels like a particular kind of musicality. Would you talk about where your experience as a drummer intersects with your experience of composing poetry?
Announcing the winner of the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award:
Ockert Greeff, for his chapbook: “A Mass Choir of Little Things” Excerpt from chapbook: * * * I let go of my yellow lunchbox Watch it swirl away in the dark water Past the boy who cannot give up He is swimming, lifting his arms up High out of the water, […]
2023 Vallum Chapbook Award FINALISTS
We are thrilled to present six exciting and beautiful chapbooks as finalists. Click through below to read excerpts and come back soon to find out the winner!
Babyn, Manoli, Solomon | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from Show and Tell, a collaborative chapbook by André Babyn, Sasha Manoli, and Misha Solomon, a collective finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
Zak Jones | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from Tinderbox by Zak Jones, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
Medrie Purdham | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from The Solve by Medrie Purdham, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
Maya Clubine | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from Life Cycle of a Mayfly by Maya Clubine, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023