{"id":2622,"date":"2018-02-11T18:57:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T18:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridareview.cah.ucf.edu\/?page_id=2622"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:18:24","slug":"chapbooks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/store\/chapbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The life and work of Jeanne Leiby (1967-2011) are remembered in our prose\/graphic narrative chapbook series. As editor of <em>The Florida Review<\/em>\u00a0(2004-2007), Leiby breathed new life into the magazine. Leiby brought comics to <em>TFR<\/em>, launched the journal\u2019s first website, published the 30th anniversary issue, and established the coursework and internship program that teaches editorial skills to UCF students. Leiby left <em>The Florida Review<\/em>\u00a0to become the first female editor of <em>The Southern Review<\/em>\u00a0at Louisiana State University before her death in 2011. She is remembered for her boundless energy, fierce intellect, and love of literature.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase any of our chapbooks, please click the appropriate link(s) below. To submit to the contest, please see our <a href=\"\/floridareview\/submit\/chapbook-contest\/\">Leiby Chapbook Contest<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h3>2025 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9295 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/01\/WTD_cover3-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/01\/WTD_cover3-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/01\/WTD_cover3.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMary Kate Coleman&#8217;s<em> Wednesday Trash Day<\/em> is our fourteenth annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGutting and necessary. A grief so delicate and rending that it feels holy. There\u2019s no balm for the wound <em>Wednesday Trash Day<\/em> will leave in you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Contest Judge Micah Dean Hicks<\/p>\n<p>Mary Kate Coleman is a recent Fulbright scholar and investigator on the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation. She\u2019s currently a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in <i>Cimarron<\/i>, <i>Glimmer Train<\/i>, <i>Redivider<\/i>, <i>Carve Magazine<\/i>, and others. Her story \u201cHayDay\u201d was a finalist in the 2025 Puerto Del Sol Prose Contest. She and her husband are working on renovating an 1830s log cabin on the White River in Indianapolis. They have two kids, Ruthie and Woody.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>2024 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8961 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/03\/thescrew_cover-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/03\/thescrew_cover-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/03\/thescrew_cover-731x1024.png 731w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/03\/thescrew_cover-768x1075.png 768w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/03\/thescrew_cover-1097x1536.png 1097w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/03\/thescrew_cover-1463x2048.png 1463w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/03\/thescrew_cover.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKate Osana Simonian&#8217;s <em>The Screw<\/em> is our thirteenth annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Screw<\/em> is a super tight, dazzling novella about a young woman lured into an abusive relationship with a common monster of a boyfriend. The protagonist\u2014a second-person &#8216;You&#8217;\u2014seems to be following instructions from an internal authority that dictates how to succeed at failure. But this real-life horror story of insidious psychological abuse is told with stunning wit and innovation. This novella evokes Ann Beattie and Ottessa Moshfegh, but the writing has a velocity all its own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Mark Polanzak, author of <em>POP!<\/em> and <em>The OK End of Funny Town<\/em>, Contest Judge<\/p>\n<p>Kate Osana Simonian is an Armenian-Australian writer<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and assistant professor at California State University\u2013San Bernardino. Texas Tech University conferred her English doctorate in 2020. Her stories have been published in the Pushcart Anthology, <i>Chicago Tribune<\/i>, <i>Iowa Review<\/i>, and <i>Best Australian Stories<\/i>, and she\u2019s received various honors, including the Nelson Algren Award, a John Steinbeck Fellowship, and a California Arts Council Emerging Writer Grant. Kate served as a fiction editor for the Pushcart anthology in 2023 and she\u2019s currently faculty editor for the undergraduate literary magazine of CSUSB, <i>The Pacific Review<\/i>. She\u2019s finishing up her debut novel, <i>Singleton<\/i>, of which \u201cThe Screw\u201d is a chapter. Find her at her outdated website (<a href=\"https:\/\/katesimonian.com\">katesimonian.com<\/a>), or with her partner and two cats in the garden, reading under the orange trees of SoCal.<\/p>\n<h3>2023 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8470 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/07\/BLD_Cover-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/07\/BLD_Cover-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/07\/BLD_Cover-731x1024.png 731w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/07\/BLD_Cover-768x1075.png 768w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/07\/BLD_Cover-1097x1536.png 1097w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/07\/BLD_Cover-1463x2048.png 1463w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/07\/BLD_Cover.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCB Anderson&#8217;s <em>Blue Lion Days<\/em> is our twelfth annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p>With depth and tenderness, CB Anderson brings us Grand Falls, a mill town claiming a place in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. So too are its inhabitants: a woodworker raising twin daughters on his own; a recovering addict reconciling God, love, and sobriety; a young woman running the refurbished mill as she sidesteps her father\u2019s grip. There are, meanwhile, the foothills and the river, which is cleaner than it&#8217;s been in a century. A kaleidoscopic collection that limns longing, regret, and reinvention, <em>Blue Lion Days <\/em>is keenly alive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">CB Anderson\u2019s work has appeared in\u00a0<em>Narrative Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0<em>North American Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Electric Literature<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Iowa Review<\/em>, and others.\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0included her book\u00a0<em>Home Now<\/em>\u00a0(2019) in \u201cBriefly Noted,\u201d and a fiction collection\u00a0<em>River Talk<\/em>\u00a0was a <em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em> Best Book of 2014. Awards include the 2022 Winning Writers Tom Howard fiction prize, the <em>Crazyhorse<\/em> Prize, and second place in the <em>Zoetrope: All-Story<\/em> fiction competition. Anderson leads workshops around the U.S. and has taught at Boston University and the University of Tampa. She loves ocean swimming, scotch, and karaoke\u2014generally in that order. Visit her at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbanderson.net\/\">cbanderson.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>2022 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7654 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2023\/03\/3D43ECCC-8A1F-4CD8-8CDA-11A111D1C88A-220x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2023\/03\/3D43ECCC-8A1F-4CD8-8CDA-11A111D1C88A-220x300.png 220w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2023\/03\/3D43ECCC-8A1F-4CD8-8CDA-11A111D1C88A-751x1024.png 751w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2023\/03\/3D43ECCC-8A1F-4CD8-8CDA-11A111D1C88A-768x1048.png 768w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2023\/03\/3D43ECCC-8A1F-4CD8-8CDA-11A111D1C88A-1126x1536.png 1126w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2023\/03\/3D43ECCC-8A1F-4CD8-8CDA-11A111D1C88A.png 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melanie Bishop&#8217;s <em>Home for Wayward Girls<\/em> is our eleventh annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIn this beautiful, at times heartbreaking fiction, a family opens their home, already brimming with four daughters and a son, to a girl on the run and a girl in a bad marriage. The young, wise narrator learns about life from the older girls around her\u2014girls who want, but don\u2019t get what they\u2019re after, girls who don\u2019t realize what they deserve. A captivating, tender story that shows how some people rush into our lives as quickly as they rush out, leaving us to wait for the next thing to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Jill Talbot, author of <em>A Distant Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melanie Bishop is Faculty Emeritus at Prescott College in Arizona, where for twenty-two years she taught creative writing, and was Founding Editor, and Fiction\/Nonfiction Editor of <em>Alligator Juniper<\/em>, a national literary magazine, three-time winner of the AWP Directors\u2019 Prize. Her young adult novel, <em>My So-Called Ruined Life <\/em>(2014) was a top-five finalist for both the John Gardner Award in fiction and nonfiction in <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>Glimmer Train<\/em>, <em>The <\/em><em>Georgetown Review<\/em>, <em>The <\/em><em>Greensboro Review<\/em>, <em>The <\/em><em>Florida Review<\/em>, <em>Vela<\/em>, <em>Essay Daily<\/em>, <em>Next Avenue<\/em>, <em>Huffington Post<\/em>, <em>New York Journal of Books<\/em>, and others. Currently, Bishop teaches occasional classes for Stanford Continuing Studies, and offers instruction, guidance and editing through her business, Lexi Services. \u201cHome for Wayward Girls\u201d is the title story of her next short story cycle.<\/p>\n<h3>2021 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7041 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/08\/ECADF0EB-1B46-4EFB-A04F-EC4019B9013F-214x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/08\/ECADF0EB-1B46-4EFB-A04F-EC4019B9013F-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/08\/ECADF0EB-1B46-4EFB-A04F-EC4019B9013F.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jill Talbot&#8217;s <em>A Distant Town<\/em> is our tenth annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe stories in <em>A Distant Town <\/em>stayed with me long after I finished reading them. They felt like familiar songs that break your heart by reminding you of the lonely world they exist in, not unlike Crystal Gayle or Johnny Cash playing on the radio as one drives over miles of open highway in a western state. I felt like I\u2019d known the author long before I read their work, as though we\u2019d been patrons of the same Christmas-light-decorated roadside bar for years and tipped our glasses to each other even though we weren\u2019t formally introduced. The motif of music and jukeboxes was fitting for this collection, because when the last words evaporated into my mind, I was eager to fish some quarters out of my pocket and hit play again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Coyote Shook, author of <em>Coyote the Beautiful<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jill Talbot is the author of <em>The Way We Weren\u2019t: A Memoir <\/em>and <em>Loaded: Women and Addiction<\/em>, the co-editor of <em>The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together<\/em>, and the editor of <em>Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction<\/em>. Her writing has appeared in journals such as <em>AGNI<\/em>, <em>Brevity<\/em>, <em>Colorado Review<\/em>, <em>Diagram<\/em>, <em>Gulf Coast<\/em>, <em>Hotel Amerika<\/em>, <em>The Paris Review Daily<\/em>, and <em>The Rumpus<\/em> and has been recognized four times in <em>The Best American Essays<\/em>. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.<\/p>\n<h3>2020 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6589 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/10\/78095-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover art for Coyote Shook's Coyote the Beautiful\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/10\/78095-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/10\/78095-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/10\/78095-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/10\/78095-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/10\/78095-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/10\/78095-scaled.jpeg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coyote Shook&#8217;s <em>Coyote the Beautiful<\/em> is our ninth annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis visually inventive and emotionally compelling graphic memoir recounts the experiences of a queer writer navigating a fatphobic society and the slights both outright and subtle that have accumulated throughout their life, including gastric bypass surgery and its complications. Interwoven with references to Tallulah Bankhead, Emily Dickinson, <em>My Fair Lady<\/em>, and other cultural touchstones, this memoir indicts a society that demands conformity to beauty standards at any cost. Coyote the narrator is cultured, funny, defiant\u2014someone who is a delight to spend time with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013Lynne Nugent, author of <em>Nest<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coyote Shook is a cartoonist and PhD student in American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where they research intersections between environmental history and disability in the Florida Everglades. Their work has been featured in <em>Ransom Center Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, The Puritan, Wisconsin Review, The Society For Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Influenza Project, <\/em>the National Humanities Center Digital Library, and the <em>North Carolina Folklore Journal. <\/em><\/p>\n<h3>2019 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5033 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/FrontCover-214x300.png\" alt=\"Cover of Nest Chapbook\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/FrontCover-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/FrontCover-731x1024.png 731w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/FrontCover-768x1075.png 768w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/FrontCover-1097x1536.png 1097w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/FrontCover-1463x2048.png 1463w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/FrontCover.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lynne Nugent&#8217;s <em>Nest<\/em> is our eighth annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Nest <\/em>collects flash essays that embrace fragmentary and incomplete thoughts that can result from motherhood\u2014and the demands of contemporary life. <em>Nest <\/em>emerges from the moments in which technology, feminism, creativity, and ambition all intersect with the eternal needs and rhythms of family life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lynne Nugent has been managing editor of <em>The Iowa Review <\/em>since 2003. Her personal essays have appeared in the <em>North American Review<\/em>, <em>Brevity<\/em>, <em>T<\/em><em>he<\/em> <em>New York Times<\/em>, <em>Full Grown People<\/em>, <em>Mutha Magazine<\/em>, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City.<\/p>\n<h3>2018 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3560 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/03\/autopsy_cover-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Michael Chin's Chapbook Autopsy and Everything After\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/03\/autopsy_cover-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/03\/autopsy_cover-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/03\/autopsy_cover-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/03\/autopsy_cover-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/03\/autopsy_cover-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/03\/autopsy_cover.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Chin&#8217;s <em>Autopsy and Everything After<\/em> is our seventh annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p><em>Autopsy and Everything After<\/em> collects stories of the seedy underworld of professional wrestling and the dreams and hopes of those that inhabit it.\u00a0Final contest judge Juan Martinez noted, \u201cThere is so much pathos and beauty and good humor in these pieces. I loved spending time with these people, how they surprised me, how much I learned about the itinerant wrestling world and how that world contains all of ours\u2014our dead fathers, our lost exes, our fears and hopes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Chin is an alumnus of the Oregon State University MFA program. He has previously published two hybrid chapbooks,\u00a0<em>Distance Traveled with Bent Window Books<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Leo Burke Finish with Gimmick Press<\/em>, and is a contributing editor for\u00a0<em>Moss<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>2017 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2623 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Second-Wife-Cover_hi-res-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"pink cover of Second Wife by Rita Ciresi\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Second-Wife-Cover_hi-res-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Second-Wife-Cover_hi-res-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Second-Wife-Cover_hi-res-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Second-Wife-Cover_hi-res-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Second-Wife-Cover_hi-res-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Second-Wife-Cover_hi-res.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rita Ciresi&#8217;s <em>Second Wife<\/em> is our sixth annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the sixth annual Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award is Rita Ciresi for her trenchant collection of flash fiction,\u00a0<em>Second Wife<\/em>.\u00a0The housewives that populate\u00a0<i>Second Wife<\/i>\u00a0are estranged from themselves and others. They mourn lost children, plot revenge against their former husbands, lust after the bag boy at the grocery store, seek marital advice from a psychic, and regret the emptiness of an affair. In this collection of linked flash fiction, Flannery O\u2019Connor Award-winning author Rita Ciresi offers a peek into the private thoughts of ordinary women with cutting precision. As noted by this year\u2019s final judge, Robert Venditti, \u201c<i>Second Wife<\/i>\u00a0is bursting with wit, tragedy, humor, and heart. Rita Ciresi\u2019s collection of short and flash fiction brings together over twenty stories of loss, longing, and love, each one echoing with a voice as powerful and true as the emotions it speaks of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rita Ciresi\u00a0is author of the novels\u00a0<i>Bring Back My Body to Me<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Pink Slip<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Blue Italian<\/i>, and<i>Remind Me Again Why I Married You<\/i>, and two award-winning story collections,\u00a0<i>Sometimes I Dream in Italian<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Mother Rocket<\/i>. She is professor of English at the University of South Florida, a faculty mentor for the Bay Path University MFA program in creative nonfiction, and fiction editor of\u00a0<i>2 Bridges Review<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h3>2016 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yui-g imageblock\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-223 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/02\/Townsend-Rivers-cover-12-19-RESIZED-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/02\/Townsend-Rivers-cover-12-19-RESIZED-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/02\/Townsend-Rivers-cover-12-19-RESIZED.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alison Townsend&#8217;s <em>The Persistence of Rivers<\/em> is our fifth annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Townsend is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, <em>The Blue Dress: Poems and Prose Poems<\/em> and <em>Persephone in America<\/em>, and two other chapbooks, <em>And Still the Music<\/em> and <em>What the Body Knows<\/em>. Her poetry and essays appear in <em>Chatauqua<\/em>, <em>Feminist Studies<\/em>, <em>Paraboloa<\/em>, <em>The Southern Review<\/em>, and elsewhere. She has received a Pushcart Prize, the Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition Prize, \u201cnotable\u201d mentions in <em>Best American Essays<\/em>, as well as a Wisconsin Arts Board fellowship. An award-winning teacher, she is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>2015 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yui-g imageblock\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-303 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/RenoFrontCover2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nat Akin&#8217;s <em>Reno<\/em> is our fourth annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p>Nat Akin\u2019s short fiction has appeared in <em>The Missouri Review<\/em>, <em>Ecotone<\/em>, and <em>Tampa Review<\/em>. He is a prior recipient of one of two annual fellowships awarded for Literary Arts by the Tennessee Arts Commission. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>2014 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yui-g imageblock\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-302 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/McDonaldchapbookFrontOnly2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marylee Mcdonald&#8217;s <em>The Rug Bazaar<\/em> is our third annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Rug Bazaar<\/em> is a duet of stories, both of which concern American women traveling in Turkey. Both are love stories, and both seem to fly in the face of everything you\u2019d think a love story could be. These are independent stories, yet, as a pair, they harmonize. In music, we might call this \u201ccall and response,\u201d how one instrument follows another, and, in following, comments on the first. I\u2019ll leave it to the reader to pick the order in which these two pieces might best be read. But, surely, read them both! Much of the beauty of <em>The<\/em> <em>Rug Bazaar<\/em> is to be found in the way each story complements the other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>2013 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yui-g imageblock\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-301 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/chapbook-ayearofsilence2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Polly Buckingham&#8217;s <em>A Year of Silence<\/em> is our second annual chapbook, purchasable <a href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.submittable.com\/submit\/337024\/purchase-a-chapbook-from-the-florida-review\">here<\/a> from our store.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>A Year of Silence<\/em>, a man who has lost his wife to a terrorist attack in the London Tube tries to take care of his daughter, a gifted seven-year-old pianist, who gradually loses her ability to feel the keys of her instrument, to play the music her mother loved or, after surgery, to use her hands for even the most simple task. Stranded in a cottage with no electricity and little food in an unrelenting winter flood rising from the North Sea, the two characters survive the cold wind- and rain-swept Outer Hebrides, an almost perfect embodiment of a depthless and unending grief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>2012 Chapbook Winner<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yui-g imageblock\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-300\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/chapbook-rubia2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first annual chapbook\u2014<em>Rubia<\/em>, by Patricia Grace King\u2014<s>now available for $12. <\/s>SOLD OUT!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Rubia<\/em> is so deftly and subtly written and so smart about so many topics\u2013soccer, travel, youth, language, race, culture, love, and the sexes\u2013that to read it is to feel secretly wise about the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The life and work of Jeanne Leiby (1967-2011) are remembered in our prose\/graphic narrative chapbook series. 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