Please note: Submissions for the third biennial Wallace Award are now closed. Foundlings Press will announce the winner in spring 2021. Please check back in December 2022 for the return of our chapbook contest.
The Wallace Award is back.
Only open for submissions once every two years, Foundlings Press offers the Wallace Award to an outstanding poetry chapbook, publishing the winning manuscript with cover art by a guest designer.
This year’s guest designer is Julie Molloy, whose work first charmed and enchanted us at a Peach Mag event in 2018. We left with a painting and with the hope that we might get to collaborate someday.
That day has come. Following previous guest artists Stephen Fitzmaurice (2017) and Edreys Wajed (2019), Julie will team up with Foundlings Press and the eventual winner of the 2021 Wallace Award to produce cover art for the winning manuscript, which Foundlings will publish in fall/winter 2021.
Submissions
Submissions for the third biannual Wallace Award chapbook contest are open from 16 November 2020 to 31 January 2021. Foundlings will announce the final selection in spring 2021.
Requirements
Length: 20-70 pages
Format: Word or PDF, remove any/all identifying information
Style: N/A - we’ll read anything, but please familiarize yourself with our catalog
Entry
Entry is $5, payable through the Foundlings website (link below). Need-based fee-waivers are available—no documentation needed; just email us. Once you’ve paid your submission fee, email your chapbook manuscript as a Word or PDF document to publisher@foundlingspress.com.
More about Julie Molloy
Julie Molloy is an illustrator, designer and art director at Block Club, an award-winning branding and strategy agency in Buffalo. Her gallery work debuted in 2014 in her solo show, Inside Voices, a series exploring the relationship between our public faces and private lives. She has since been featured in The Public and elsewhere, displayed her work at events with partners like Peach Mag, and taken on a wide variety of illustration projects, including designing the cover of Matthew Bookin’s chapbook Palace (Ghost City Press, 2018) and many private commissions. Based in Buffalo, she is currently living and working in Mexico City.