The Headlight Review announces the longlist for its annual Poetry Chapbook Prize

2025 Poetry Chapbook Prize Longlist

The Headlight Review is proud to announce the longlist for its annual Poetry Chapbook Prize. Out of over seventy submissions, the following submissions were selected to move forward in the review process:

A Mo(u)rning of Youth by Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani

ab origine by Brendan Todt

All Our (Un)Makings by Ali Beheler

An Angel and Other Poems by Christina Hauck

At the Jewish Deli and Other Poems by Emma Wyn

Chinaberry Constellations: Odes by Van Garrett

Feminine Morbidity by Maya Williams

Heart Skin by Mary Elle Talley

Hot Flash by Elizabeth Cohen

Missing Woman by Morrow Dowdle

On a Saturday in the Anthropocene by Elizabeth J. Coleman

Our Use of the Stars by Jed Meyers

Point of Incision by Jodi Balas

Quivering in the Bright by Christina Frei

Self-Portrait with LSD & Mirror by M Ezra Zhang

The Naming of Things by Mark Joshua

The Wild Garlic Manifesto by Martin Settle

The World is Ending & I’m Crying in the Taco Bell Parking Lot  by Sarah Mills

Urchin to My Shell by Kristy Snedden

Waiting Room by Gary Stein

https://www.theheadlightreview.com/highbeams/2025-poetry-chapbook-prize-longlist

Finalists will be announced April 30, and their submissions will be sent to this year’s judge, Olatunde Osinaike.