Non-Fiction Chapbook Prize

Entries are currently being accepted for the 2025 Harvard Review Chapbook Prize for a prose work of nonfiction of 15,000 to 30,000 words. The winner will receive publication of their work in a limited-edition chapbook distributed by Harvard University Press and an invitation to read at Harvard University in the fall of 2025. The winning entry will be announced in the spring of 2025. The judge for the 2025 prize is Jerald Walker, author of The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult and How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and winner of the 2021 Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. 

Deadline: December 15, 2024

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