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 ch

apbooks 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.

08/07/2025

We’re thrilled to announce that our poetry judge for this year’s chapbook contest is Claire Hong! ( )

Claire Hong is the author of Upend (Noemi Press). She received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and has creative writing degrees from the University of Arizona (MFA) and Pratt Institute (BFA). She was born in San Francisco, CA and currently lives in Tucson, AZ where she teaches writing at Pima Community College.

08/06/2025

We’re thrilled to announce that our fiction judge for this year’s chapbook contest is Jenny Tinghui Zhang! ( )

Jenny Tinghui Zhang is the author of the novels Superfan and Four Treasures of the Sky, named an Idaho Book of the Year and short- and longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her work has appeared in The Cut, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Texas Highways, and elsewhere. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and has received support from Yaddo, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Kundiman, VONA/Voices, Tin House, and the University of Wyoming, where she completed her MFA.

08/05/2025

We’re thrilled to announce that our nonfiction judge for this year’s chapbook contest will be Samantha Hunt! ( )

Samantha Hunt is the author of five books including The Seas, The Unwritten Book and The Dark Dark. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her writing has been translated into twelve languages. Hunt won a Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner. Her short film The Yellow, was selected for the Toronto International Film Fest.

08/01/2025

Friendly reminder that the 2025 Contest opens August 15th! Get your manuscripts ready! And coming next week: we formally introduce our contest judges 👀

07/24/2025

Meet this year’s Poetry Editor, !

T Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press 2022), and Vantage (American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award 2019). Their work can be found in the New Yorker, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. A 2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow, they have received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference, Community of Writers, Vermont Studio Center, and the Key West Literary Seminar, as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference. She lives in Los Angeles and is a Dornsife Fellow in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Southern California.

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07/22/2025

Meet this year’s Fiction Editor, Jane Kalu!

Jane Kalu studies Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Her short fiction appears in American Short Fiction, Boston Review, Narrative Magazine, The Hopkins Review, Isele Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2025 O. Henry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Jane has received fellowships and residencies from Vermont Studio Center, Storyknife, American Short Fiction, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

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07/17/2025

Meet the new Nonfiction Editor, Rebecca Kantor!

Rebecca Kantor is a Latinx 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.

07/15/2025

Meet this year’s Editor-in-Chief, Clancy Tripp!

Clancy Tripp is a q***r Midwestern writer whose work can be found in Black Warrior Review, Catapult, Electric Literature, The Florida Review, The Greensboro Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, The Rumpus, SLICE, Witness, and elsewhere.

Her essays have received the 2020 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, the 2021 Witness Literary Award in Nonfiction, and the “Notable Essay” distinction in The Best American Essays 2022.

Clancy earned an MFA from the Ohio State University and is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing and Literature at USC.

03/27/2025

We're all set up and ready to go at AWP25! We hope you'll stop by, check out some of our new (and less new) titles, and meet some of our amazing authors. See you soon!

03/26/2025

See you at booth #426 and beyond, AWP!

03/24/2025

Come join & & .light.magazine & Gold Line Press at A Good Used Book this Saturday evening to hear readers , , and so many more!

03/19/2025

Congratulations to our 2024 Editor’s Prize Winner Mandy Tu () for Burma Girl, selected by the Gold Line Press editorial staff!

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