The Headlight Review announces 2025 Poetry Chapbook Prize finalists

The Headlight Review is excited to announce the finalists for the 2025 Poetry Chapbook Prize. Out of over seventy total submissions, twenty submissions were selected for the longlist. Of those twenty submissions, the following nine titles were selected:

An Angel and Other Poems by Christina Hauck

Chinaberry Constellations: Odes by Van Garrett

Feminine Morbidity by Maya Williams

On a Saturday in the Anthropocene by Elizabeth J. Coleman

Our Use of the Stars by Jed Meyers

Point of Incision by Jodi Balas

Self-Portrait with LSD & Mirror by M Ezra Zhang

Urchin to My Shell by Kristy Snedden

Waiting Room by Gary Stein

These submissions have been sent to this year’s judge, Olatunde Osinaike. The winner will be announced on Friday, May 16.