New York Chapbook Fellowship

The Poetry Society of America's New York Chapbook Fellowship is awarded once a year to two New York poets under 30 years of age who have yet to publish a first book of poems. Two renowned poets select and introduce a winning manuscript for publication. Each winner receives an additional $1000 prize.

Winners
2009:
 * The Sundering by Stephanie Adams-Santos, selected by Linda Gregg
 * Lure by Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, selected by Arthur Sze

2008:
 * Ave, Materia by Jean Hartig, selected by Fanny Howe
 * The Category of Outcast by CJ Evans, selected by Terrance Hayes

2007:
 * Monster Theory by Lytton Smith, selected by Kevin Young
 * The Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds &c. by Carey McHugh, selected by Rae Armantrout

2006:
 * Locket, Master by Maya Pindyck, selected by Paul Muldoon
 * On animate life: its profligacy, organ meats, etc. by Jessica Fjeld, selected by Lyn Hejinian

2005
 * Cold Work by Cecily Parks, selected by Li-Young Lee
 * The Next Country by Idra Novey, selected by Carolyn Forche

2004
 * Gilda by Andrea Baker, selected by Claudia Rankine
 * Speaking Past the Tongue by Justin Goldberg, selected by Henri Cole

2003
 * Forget Rita by Paul Killebrew, selected by John Ashbery
 * The Misremembered World by Tess Taylor, selected by Eavan Boland