Gold Line Press

Gold Line Press seeks to promote the work of emerging writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as

Created by a group of graduate students in 2010, Gold Line Press aims to promote the work of emerging poets and fiction writers, as well as to elevate the chapbook form. The Gold Line Press editorial board does not adhere to any specific aesthetic approach. We seek out voices that deserve to be heard by a larger audience, whether those voices speak in formal or experimental verse and prose. Our chapbooks are created with the intention of producing an elegant, perfect-bound book that is also an art object. Overall, our goal is to showcase exceptional emerging writers and reward them not only with publication, but also with broad distribution of their work to reviewers and bloggers. While most chapbooks have received only limited exposure in the past, our aim is to make the chapbook a more relevant medium and a truly useful tool for new writers who want to bring their work to a broader audience.

09/29/2026

Found yourself busy this fall, scrambling to meet submission deadlines? Well, you’re in luck: While the Poetry Chapbook Contest will stop taking submissions on September 30th, prose writers will receive an extended deadline for the Gold Line Press Fiction and Nonfiction Chapbook Contests! You have until October 15th to submit, so get those manuscripts polished and submitted!

08/15/2026

Submissions are now open for the Gold Line Press 2026 Chapbook Contest! Send us your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction chapbooks starting today until September 30th!

Info on how to submit can be found at the link in our bio.

Thank you to our incredible guest judges Michelle Gurule , George Abraham , and K-Ming Chang !

08/07/2026

We’re thrilled to announce that our poetry judge for this year’s chapbook contest will be George Abraham!

George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, performance artist, and writer from Jacksonville, FL. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the Editor-at-Large of Mizna, and co-editor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025) which was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award. They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.

08/05/2026

We’re thrilled to announce that our fiction judge for this year’s chapbook contest will be K-Ming Chang!

K-Ming Chang is a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize Winner. She is the author of BESTIARY, GODS OF WANT, ORGAN MEATS, and a novella titled CECILIA (Coffee House Press, 2024). In 2026, she will be making her YA debut with STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE, a rom-com forthcoming from Holiday House, and her second YA project, a novel-in-verse titled GIRL GODS, will be forthcoming from Kokila (Penguin Random House) in 2027. Her next novel for adults, NEEDLEMOUTH, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster on October 20, 2026.

08/03/2026

We’re thrilled to announce that our nonfiction judge for this year’s chapbook contest will be Michelle Gurule!

Michelle Gurule (she/her) is the author of Thank You, John (Unnamed Press, 2025). A writer and educator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she earned an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of New Mexico. Her work explores s*x work, class, power, and her identity as a q***r, white/ Chicana woman. Her essays have appeared in Slate, HuffPost Personal, Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. In 2021, her essay “Exit Route” won StoryQuarterly’s Nonfiction Prize, judged by T Kira Madden, and was later recognized as a notable essay in The Best American Essays.

07/16/2026

Meet Gold Line Press new Poetry Editor, Sheena Raza Faisal!

Sheena Raza Faisal is a writer from Mumbai. Her work has appeared in Joyland Magazine, POETRY Magazine, and the New Yorker. She received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan, and is currently a Creative Writing PhD fellow at the University of Southern California, where she is working on her first novel.

07/14/2026

Meet Gold Line Press new Fiction Editor, Ariel Chu!

Ariel Chu is a Taiwanese American writer from Eastvale, California. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California, where she serves as the fiction editor of Gold Line Press and Nat. Brut. In 2020, Ariel received an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where she was awarded the Syracuse Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction. Ariel’s work has been published by Joyland, Black Warrior Review, and The Masters Review, among others, and she has received support from Kundiman, the Steinbeck Fellowship, the Luce Scholars Program, and the P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Her debut short story collection, Antibachelorette, is forthcoming from Split/Lip Press in 2027.

07/09/2026

Meet this year’s Gold Line Press Nonfiction Editor, Rebecca Kantor!

Rebecca Kantor is a Latina writer from Plano, Texas. She earned her MFA from Vanderbilt University and is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing and Literature at USC. She is currently working on a gothic-horror novel about girlhood.

07/07/2026

Meet this year’s Gold Line Press Editor-in-Chief, Jane Kalu!

Jane Kalu is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Her short fiction appears in American Short Fiction, Narrative, Boston Review, Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. She has received a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Prize, and has been awarded fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, StoryKnife, and American Short Fiction.

06/13/2026

Congratulations to our overall 2025 GLP Poetry Prize Winner Joshua Garcia (Joshua Garcia ) for “21 Nudes: 21 Poems After Philip Pearlstein” selected by Claire Hong!

Congratulations to our poetry prize finalists, and many thanks to everyone who submitted their work!

**We are reposting this announcement in order to correct an error regarding a finalist’s name, and we deeply apologize for the error.**

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