In response to rapid gentrification and displacement of QTBIPOC+ literary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in celebration of these communities’ revolutionary history, Foglifter Press, RADAR Productions, and Still Here San Francisco are pleased to announce Start a Riot!—a chapbook prize for local emerging queer and trans black writers, indigenous writers, and writers of color. Each year, the prize will honor one author with chapbook publication, a $1,000 prize, and promotion, as well as a spot on the Sister Spit tour.

Judges:

• tanea lunsford lynx
• Venita Blackburn
• Tina Bartolome

Eligibility: 

• Submitter is a QTBIPOC+ literary artist
• Submitter is a current resident of the larger San Francisco Bay Area
• Submitter does not have a previous full-length publication in their submission genre

Manuscript Details: 

• Fiction, nonfiction, or graphic novel
• 25 pages (maximum)
• Remove all identifying information, including acknowledgements. There should be one title page with the name of the chapbook only.
• Microsoft Word doc preferred, PDF also accepted
  
  Important Dates:
   
• Submissions: September 1 to November 1, 2020
• Results Announced: March 2021
• Chapbook Release: Fall 2021

Here for more information and to submit!