The winner of the 2019 GLU Chapbook Contest!

We are thrilled to announce that Andrea Abi-Karam has chosen Memoria, by Michelle Lizet Flores, as the winner of the 2019 Get Like Us contest!

“Memoria or an "attempt to fly without wings" stitches ancestral memory, immigration narratives, intergenerational trauma together in a prosodic-lyric web whose spine is the premature death of the narrator's mother. Amidst the darkness of grief and struggle, the faultlines that the loss of a parent cracks open confer a great heaviness. Our inability to stave off death leaves us to hang, along with our bathing suits, dresses, jackets, buttons, in the space between survival and death.” - Andrea Abi-Karam

Michelle Lizet Flores is a graduate of FSU and NYU creative writing programs. She currently works as a middle school English teacher and has previously been published in magazines and journals such as The Miami Rail, Chircú Journal, and Travel Latina. A finalist for the 2020 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, her first chapbook, Cuentos from the Swamp, is available from Finishing Line Press. Find out more at michellelizetflores.com.

Preorder Memoria here!

2019 Girls Like Us Chapbook Contest

Winner: "Memoria" by Michelle Lizet Flores

Runner up: "6:29am, below sea level" by Maurisa Li-A-Ping F

inalists (in alphabetical order):
"Extended Voicemail to a Senator" by Meriwether Clarke
"Boys in the Electric Age" by Jordan E. Franklin
"Nightstands" by Sugar le Fae
"Differential diagnosis from the Santa Anas" by Leah Claire Kaminski
"Heaven Is Now" by Risa Pappas
"Defending Cressida" by Kathryn Paulsen
"From the Soot" Kyleen Russell

Pushcart Prize nominations!

We’re happy to announce our Pushcart Prize nominees:

“Small Apocalypse” by Elspeth Jenson, winner of the 2019 Real Good Poem Prize, chosen by Julia Mae Johnson, published in Rabbit Catastrophe Review #15

“Once Read as Ruin,” by Katherine Gaffney, from in Rabbit Catastrophe Review #15

“Our Lady of Guadalupe” by Tori Cardenas, from in Rabbit Catastrophe Review #15

“In Steubenville,”  “The Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov,” and “Nikasitimos was here mounting Timiona,” from All Sex and No Story by Laura Passin, winner of the 2018 Get Like Us chapbook prize, chosen by Tiana Clark

Congrats to all the nominees!

— rlr

The winner of the 2019 Real Good Poem Prize!

We are thrilled to announce that Julia Johnson has chosen Elspeth Jensen’s, "Small Apocalypse," as the 2019 winner of the Real Good Poem Prize!

Elspeth Jensen earned her BA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University, and is currently pursuing her MFA from George Mason University. Her writing can be found in journals such as the Bellevue Literary Review, Rust + Moth, Up the Staircase Quarterly, The Midway Review, The Penn Review, and elsewhere. She is the Poetry Editor for So to Speak and Sweet Tree Review.

Elspeth will receive $1,000 and publication in Rabbit Catastrophe Review #15.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Real Good Poem Prize

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Real Good Poem Prize

Opens: March 1, 2019

Deadline: April 7th, 2019

Judge: Julia Johnson

Our annual single poem contest.  $1,000 for the winning poem, plus 25 original limited edition broadsides and publication in Rabbit Catastrophe Review. Finalists will also be published in RCR. Send up to three of your best REAL GOOD POEMS.

Rabbit Catastrophe Press is dedicated to publishing writers marginalized from mainstream literary communities. If you are queer, of color, trans, disabled, outside academia, or otherwise commonly excluded, we encourage you to submit. Any optional, personal information is welcome in your cover letter and will be kept confidential. While our goal is to find and celebrate an exceptional poem, we want to make it clear that Rabbit Catastrophe is a welcoming place for all writers.

The winner will be announced August 2019.

All submissions should be sent HERE. Emailed submissions will not be considered.

Other Guidelines

• No previously published works will be considered.

• Poems must be written in English. If the work is a translation, the original work must have not been previously published in English nor its original language.

• Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but we must be notified immediately if any poems are accepted elsewhere. Submission fees cannot be refunded.

• No cover sheet in your document is needed. Blind submissions are never really blind, so we are not even going to pretend. Any optional, personal information is welcome in your Submittable cover letter and will be kept confidential.

• Multiple entries by a single poet are accepted. Each group of three poems must be treated as a separate entry, each with an additional $25 fee.

• Close friends and family of the Rabbit Catastrophe Press staff and the judge are ineligible. We define close friends as anyone we would invite to a slumber party.

About the Judge

Julia Johnson is the author of three poetry collections: Subsidence (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2016), The Falling Horse (Factory Hollow Press, 2011), and Naming the Afternoon (LSU Press, 2002). She teaches creative writing at the University of Kentucky.

Past Winners

2018 - Hannah Craig, chosen by Kaveh Akbar
2017 - Kayleb Rae Candrilli, chosen by Jenny Johnson
2016 - Jami Macarty, chosen by Kiki Petrosino

2019 Real Good Poem Prize OPENS!

Real Good Poem Prize

Opens: March 1, 2019

Deadline: March 31st, 2019

Judge: Julia Johnson

Our annual single poem contest.  $1,000 for the winning poem, plus 25 original limited edition broadsides and publication in Rabbit Catastrophe Review. Finalists will also be published in RCR. Send up to three of your best REAL GOOD POEMS.

Rabbit Catastrophe Press is dedicated to publishing writers marginalized from mainstream literary communities. If you are queer, of color, trans, disabled, outside academia, or otherwise commonly excluded, we encourage you to submit. Any optional, personal information is welcome in your cover letter and will be kept confidential. While our goal is to find and celebrate an exceptional poem, we want to make it clear that Rabbit Catastrophe is a welcoming place for all writers.

The winner will be announced August 2018.

All submissions should be sent HERE. Emailed submissions will not be considered.

Other Guidelines

• No previously published works will be considered.

• Poems must be written in English. If the work is a translation, the original work must have not been previously published in English nor its original language.

• Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but we must be notified immediately if any poems are accepted elsewhere. Submission fees cannot be refunded.

• No cover sheet in your document is needed. Blind submissions are never really blind, so we are not even going to pretend. Any optional, personal information is welcome in your Submittable cover letter and will be kept confidential.

• Multiple entries by a single poet are accepted. Each group of three poems must be treated as a separate entry, each with an additional $25 fee.

• Close friends and family of the Rabbit Catastrophe Press staff and the judge are ineligible. We define close friends as anyone we would invite to a slumber party.

About the Judge

Julia Johnson is the author of three poetry collections: Subsidence (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2016), The Falling Horse (Factory Hollow Press, 2011), and Naming the Afternoon (LSU Press, 2002). She teaches creative writing at the University of Kentucky.

Past Winners

2018 - Hannah Craig, chosen by Kaveh Akbar
2017 - Kayleb Rae Candrilli, chosen by Jenny Johnson
2016 - Jami Macarty, chosen by Kiki Petrosino