The Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize

The Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize

$500 + Publication

2022 Judge: Taylor Johnson

Established in 2001, The Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize highlights one book a year that excels in the chapbook format. Since 2019 the Prize comes with a $500 advance, a standard royalty contract, and 20 copies of the published book.

Submissions open each year on January 1 and close on March 31.

Guidelines, Submissions, and List of Previous Winners

Winner of the 2022 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize:

Recovery, by J. L. Conrad

Selected by Taylor Johnson

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Submission Guidelines

2022 Judge: Taylor Johnson

To submit please visit our online submission manager:
https://texasreview.submittable.com/submit/1490/the-robert-phillips-poetry-chapbook-prize

General Guidelines

A fee of $20 must be paid at the time of submission.
Open to any poet writing in English. Translations are not eligible.
Poems may have been published individually in magazines or anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please notify TRP immediately by withdrawing the manuscript via Submittable if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Current and former students and faculty of Sam Houston State University are not eligible. Family or former students of the final judge are not eligible.
Submissions are accepted through Submittable only.
Winner will receive a $500 advance, a standard royalty contract, and 20 copies of the published book.

Manuscript Guidelines

Manuscripts may be no longer than 40 pages.
Please include a table of contents, title page, and page numbers.
Do not include an acknowledgments page.
No more than one poem per page.
Submissions are judged blind. Please remove any identifying information from the manuscript.
Submit as a .pdf, .docx, or .doc file format.
No revisions will be accepted once the manuscript is uploaded.

Taylor Johnson

Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. He is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary. Taylor is the 2022 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum.

Robert Phillips

Robert Phillips (1938-2022), for whom this competition is named, is the author or editor of over thirty volumes of poetry, fiction, and criticism. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts Letters Award in Literature, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant in Poetry, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo Fellowships, a National Public Radio Syndicated Fiction Project Award, a Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal, and Texas Institute of Letters membership.