Contest Winners & Finalists
New! Daring & Colorful Poetry from Diode
Greetings from Diode Editions!
We are grateful for your readership and for submitting your remarkable work to our annual publishing contests. The exceptional caliber of work submitted has led us to select multiple titles for publication in 2025. We’re pleased and proud to announce our book and chapbook contest winners and finalists.
Thank you for being a vital part of our literary community and sharing the joy of reading and creating together.
Best regards,
The Diode Team
2024 Book & Chapbook Contest Winners
Full-length Book Prize
All Is The Telling, Rosa Castellano
Tidying Up The House, Hind Shoufani
We Had Mansions: Poems, Mandy Shunnarah
Chapbook Prize
Towards A Retreat, Samaa Abdurraqib
Hindsight, Mack Rogers
2024 Book & Chapbook Contest Finalists
Full-length Book Prize Finalists
Some Americans, Carolyn Guinzio
PERISH / ABOLISH, Mia Kang
Grappling, Eddie Kim
Bone Symphony, Michelle Phương Hồ
Direct and Unavoidable Consequences, Isaac Pickell
Artifacts, Heidi Seaborn
Chrome Pig, Glenn Shaheen
Chapbook Prize Finalists
Redapples falling still, Sneha Subramanian Kanta
John Wilkes Booth's Dream, David Kirby
Derecho Diary, Becca Klaver
Lessons on How to Become a Bee, Patrick Lawler
Ceasefire Haiku, Faisal Mohyuddin
If I Call This Cave a Garden, Caroline New
What We've Become, darlene anita scott
Catalog of Shadows, Jaz Sufi
New! From 2023 Book & Chapbook Contest Winners
The Diode 2024 Catalog
It is with great respect and admiration that we share new poetry from Trace DePass, Rewa Zeinati, Koss, Jason Koo and Shabnam Piryaei!
BOOTless → by Trace DePass
Formidably inventive and wild. DePass’s poems grieve, provoke, memorialize, and inquire after in a language and rhythm thrillingly unlike anything else.
— JENNY XIE
Difficult by Rewa Zeinati
If you come to these poems with the questions that most haunt you, you’ll find a sisterhood of truths, a relatable madness that’s as sharp and transcendent as the sea.
— BRYNN SAITO
Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect by KOSS
[T]he reader will find themselves affectionately attached to this protagonist who remains loving and true, who tenderly observes the forgotten and knows “how to love secretly / Lesbians are like that.”
— JESSICA CUELLO
No Rest by Jason Koo
Here is a thought-provoking, incisive, honest, risky, hilarious, impressive and deeply affecting opus by one of American poetry’s most distinctive voices.
— GABRIELLE BATES
all children. by Shabnam Piryaei
Made of an indomitable energy and a quietly ferocious spirit, all children. is like nothing I've read. Capacious. Irreverent. A mystic's gorgeous trace. An experimental children's magazine for adults. Shabnam Piryaei's is a radical work of visions and portals and strangeness and light: "Nape of morning. / Miracle / worlding miracle."
— ARACELIS GIRMAY