Gasher Press

To ensure diversity, accessibility, and innovation in the literary arts, Gasher Press dedicates itself to the support of literary communities and emerging voices in meaningful collaboration and transformative vision.

Our editorial interest continues to echo the original mission from 2018, “We want art that guts with surgical precision. Make everything useful,” seeking poetry that is bright, bursting from the seams of tradition to embrace originality, potential, and risk. We pursue poetic frontiers: sites of vulnerable play, or the gift-making of a deepened understanding of self, history, and positionality in scalpel-like wielding of form and language. We offer support and space for dialogues surrounding identity, art, and resistance to move poetry forward. 
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The chapbook prize includes 10 free copies and $300. We publish perfect-bound chaps with ISBN. Our chapbooks are sold exclusively through the Gasher website, our distributor Asterism, independent bookstores, and book fairs.
Submit manuscripts between 20-37pgs, excluding front/back matter. 
Manuscripts must include a table of contents.
Do not include any preambles in the manuscript.
Nowhere in your document file should you include your name, acknowledgements, or contact information. 
Do not include an author bio anywhere in your submission, including in the Submittable sections reserved for the book synopsis and craft statement.
We accept simultaneous submissions. Please withdraw your submission immediately if accepted elsewhere.
Manuscripts must be submitted as either .pdf or .docx
We currently seek work strictly from those residing in the United States for our chapbook prize.
We do not accept works composed, either in part or entirely, with the use of Artificial Intelligence.
We do not accept manuscripts that have been previously published in their entirety, though individual poems or smaller works from the manuscript may be previously published. We consider self-published collections as published. 
Please do not submit updates, either of the manuscript, individual poems, or acknowledgements once you have submitted your work.

Poetry Chapbook Prize

<div>We only accept unpublished works. Sections previously published as a chapbook or individual poems are okay, but the manuscript as a whole should be unpublished. Self-publishing is considered published.</div><div><br></div><div>We do not accept work generated with the use of generative AI.</div><div><br></div><div>Submit as .pdf or .docx. We recommend a 12pt font. Be mindful of margins by considering how likely a poem can fit a book-sized trim. We recommend 1.5inch margins on all sides of the manuscript, though this is not required for submitting. </div><div>International writers are welcome to submit. </div><div><br></div><div>Please include a synopsis of the work in the designated fields on Submittable. A well-crafted synopsis demonstrates to us that the author is well-versed in their book's central question and craft concerns and can effectively communicate these qualities.</div><div><br></div><div>We ask that you submit a statement of craft interest in place of an author’s bio. This update to our submissions screening guidelines aims to protect writers from the pressures to flatten real, lived experiences into a series of codification. For many of us, our identity and craft are intricately linked, so we'd like to hear what motivates your writing, how so, and why which we find is often nuanced, complicated, and layered. </div>

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