Current contest:

The Poetry Chapbook Prize 2024-25

The winner of The Headlight Review’s 2024 Poetry Chapbook Prize Contest will receive publication (a perfectly bound book with a full color or black/white cover), an award of $500, and 25 copies of the book.

Open submissions ending December 31

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We want to read your work!

We value and encourage both emerging and experienced creators. Our goal is to engage readers and create a space for great art to bring us closer together.

The Headlight Review is deeply committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity amongst the staff and its contributors. We value varying editorial experience levels and consider aspects of identity, including race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, veteran status, or disability status, a pivotal part of artistic work. We encourage submissions from marginalized and underrepresented communities and perspectives, including emergent creators of color and those from the LGBTQIA+ community.

We are open to submissions in all genres for publication in our biannual issues.