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!
Zak Jones | Vallum Chapbook Award FINALIST
from Tinderbox by Zak Jones, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
Zak Jones | NO PHOTOS OF RALPH
Before me mounds of food on Formica,
crooked mouths of porcelain at parties.
Before me staged smiles in tempered tonalities:
and we’re going back in time.
The cheap bleed of a red-tinged photograph—
and another, and another.