2025 / 2026 BOOM Chapbook Finalists
Build Your Castle Out of Sugarcubes All Your Enemies Have Tongues by James D’Agostino
Elegies for One Small Future by Sara Femenella
Hazy Remnants of a Curious Dream by Howie Good
If all these stars are dead tell me what dead means by Andrew Robin
Infinity Ballot by Abigail Minor
Land of Light & Joy by Amish Trivedi
P/ROSES by Kevin McLellen
Odd fish by Guillermo Rebollo-Gil
Time is a Tranquilizer by Alicia Cook
Tiny Joy, Tiny Bane by Rocio Anica
Bateau would like to thank everyone who entered the BOOM chapbook contest this year. All of you will receive a copy of the winning chap or any in stock chapbook from our catalogue. We are in this together. ONWARD!
2025–2026 BOOM Chapbook Contest
We’re opening the BOOM Chapbook Contest early in order to find the next best thing. What are we looking for? A certain something special. Something that is raw or cooked, hashed out or blown up, festive or frugal. Poetry. A poetic sequence. A poetry bridge to the undead. A song poem ensemble. Prose. Short fiction. Short short fiction. Microfiction. Nanofiction. Novella. A collection of essays. Odd works in self portraiture. Comic one-liners for murder hornets. A mix of all of these / none of these. Entrance fee $15. All those who enter get a copy of the winner or any chapbook from our back catalogue.
Accepting submissions AUG 15 through OCT 15,2025
Best way to submit manuscripts is by using Submittable & paypal. If you prefer to use USPS, please send ms & entrance fee to:
Bateau Boom Chapbook Contest
Attn: Dan Mahoney
105 Eden Street
Bar Harbor ME 04609Questions can go to Dan Mahoney at: editors.bateau@gmail.com