Announcing the Longlist for the 15th Annual Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award

From 183 entries, the editors of The Florida Review have chosen 10 titles as semifinalists for the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award. All entrants receive a year’s subscription to The Florida Review. The 2026 longlisted titles are:

Vesuvio, Patricia Q. Bidar

Red Light in the Small Hours, Angela Edward

The Oboe is a Duck, Elizabeth Erbeznik

Hum, Lucas Flatt

The Whispers of Water, Fabián González González

Everything in My Life Up Till Now, Andrea Lewis

Trés Fronteras, Chip Livingston

Holiest, Crystal Odelle

Suburban Variations, Heather Sellers

Health Care Hopscotch: 2012-2022, Julie Marie Wade

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2023-2024 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award Finalists

We are so excited to announce the finalists for our 2023-2024 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award!

Mary Kate Coleman, “Wednesday Trash Day”

Will Musgrove, “After Last Call”

Kate Osana Simonian, “The Screw”

Each year, The Florida Review honors former editor Jeanne Leiby with the publication of a prose or graphic narrative chapbook. To purchase one of our previous winners’ chapbooks, please see our Store, and for more information about Jeanne Leiby, the award in her honor, and previous chapbook winners and finalists, please see our Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Series page.

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