Our Chapbook Open proves year in and year out to be one of our most fiercely competitive contests, and this year’s submissions proved no different. Michael Martone had a difficult decision to make, but he has chosen Lisbeth White’s A Most Natural Thing as the winner of the 2023 Chapbook Open! White’s chapbook—”part travel-writing, part ecopoetical mythology, part memoir of healing”—will be published in spring 2025. Congratulations, Lisbeth!
Winner
A Most Natural Thing by Lisbeth White
Finalists
Little Bat Daycare by Michael Giddings
This Road May Flood by Kari Shemwell