2026 HIGH/COO Chapbook
Competition Guidelines
Each year the High/Coo Chapbook Competition opens January 1. Readers may subscribe to each year's chapbooks published in the competition. All subscribers are eligible to submit a chapbook of haiku, senryu, or tanka (or a combination of these) for that year's competition.
Guidelines for HIGH/COO Chapbook Submissions:
Submissions to the competition open January 1 and close April 1 each year.
1 - You must be a subscriber to the current year's High/Coo Chapbooks series to enter the competition. Subscription is $30 per year which includes a copy of all award-winning chapbooks published that year. International subscribers will receive PDF editions of the chapbooks.
The chapbooks will be sold separately for $15 per copy, so a subscriber gets a significant discount receiving that year's chapbooks for $30 plus $5 postage. You do not have to submit a chapbook manuscript in the contest to subscribe to the High/Coo Chapbooks series.
If you are a subscriber to High/Coo Chapbooks, you may submit one chapbook manuscript per year.
2 - Chapbook manuscripts will be submitted by email to brooksbooks@gmail.com and include the following requirements:
• a book title
• a short biography of the author (500-1000 words)
• 30 - 50 haiku, senryu, or tanka (no haibun, no linked verse, no other genres)
• acknowledgments for previous publication of any poem submitted
• author’s name, address, email address & publication name preference
• SUBJECT LINE: HIGHCOO Chapbook Submission
optional, but not required:
• a short introduction about your collection
• a short introduction to your own art of writing haiku or tanka
• you may submit your chapbook by mail but include an email address for response (no postal returns)
3 - There will be at least three chapbooks published each year. Winning authors will receive 10 copies of their collection and $100. They also will get a 50% author's discount on additional copies of their chapbook.
4 - Submissions open January 1 and the closing deadline for submission is April 1. Winning chapbooks will be announced by May 1 and published in early summer.
Randy & Shirley Brooks
6 Madera Court
Taylorville, IL 62568
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