Subbed In Chapbook Prize (2018)
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

Subbed In is a not-for-profit volunteer-run independent literary organisation and small press based in Sydney, Australia. [They] provide a platform to amplify underrepresented voices, facilitating grassroots support for young and emerging writers to achieve publication or performance.

The Chapbook Prize - previously open to NSW residents only - is now open to writers across Australia. The competition aims to support emerging writers (including those who have not previously published a book) who are working in the forms of poetry, microfiction/nonfiction or ‘a blend of these mediums.

(https://subbed.in/latest/newbooks)

(booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/04/20/106196/subbed-in-chapbook-prize-expands-in-2018/)

Administration

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2018

joint winner y separately published work icon Haunt (the Koolie) Jason Gray , Sydney : Subbed In , 2019 16927774 2019 selected work poetry

'HAUNT (THE KOOLIE) is a neo-hoodoo meditation and exorcism of racial bigotry from a decolonial, Mauritian-Australian perspective.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

joint winner y separately published work icon If You're Sexy and You Know It Slap Your Hams Eloise Grills , Sydney : Subbed In , 2019 16927729 2019 selected work poetry
joint winner y separately published work icon Blur by The Zhi Yi Cham , Sydney : Subbed In , 2019 16927844 2019 selected work poetry

'blur by the is a collection of fractures that make not quite a whole. It is a giving of permission to the self, to exist as messily as ( i s ). These poems are a record of navigation through longing and dis [ place ] ment of the body and of place, a shattering of expectation(s) of the self and of family, often through dreams, food and eroticism. blur by the is an attempt at freedom.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

joint winner y separately published work icon The Hostage Šime Knežević , Sydney : Subbed In , 2019 16927898 2019 selected work poetry

'The poems in The Hostage explore the give and take of desire, being taken by language, art, or a higher-power, and the curious drift of experience.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

joint winner y separately published work icon When I Die Slingshot My Ashes onto the Surface of the Moon Jennifer Nguyen , Sydney : Subbed In , 2019 16927950 2019 selected work poetry

''Poetry is / can / be anything … everything,' says When I die slingshot my ashes onto the surface of the moon. She is sleepy, but they cannot sleep. It is 4:44 a.m. loneliness, this restlessness. The soft hue of blue from the TV bathes the room via a 24/7 lo-fi livestream. ‘Poems are troubled into existence’ – When I die, she read that somewhere, but cannot remember where, but it has stayed, it is the underpinning of this book and all that contains with/in/out. Where did these bruises come from? The heart, the brain, the heart, the soul? How do I live? How do I keep on living? I don’t know, is the honest answer. I must, is the honest honest answer.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

joint winner y separately published work icon Wheeze Marcus Whale , Sydney : Subbed In , 2019 16928003 2019 selected work poetry

'A wheeze is the sound air makes when it hits the constricted trachea, the sound of meat meeting air. wheeze is a collection of poems about the ghostly possession of the body. It's desire as a force and not a lack. It's Pazuzu from The Exorcist. It's compulsive journalling. It's the reading someone else's body language as a gothic form of divination. It's the dark art of crushing, when the consuming thought of that distant other person enters you through the windpipe like a second body.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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