As the publishing arm of Friends of Poetry, Inc., Celery City Books publishes chapbooks (through an annual chapbook competition) and on rare occasion, other books that tickle our fancy.
Previous Celery City Chapbook Winners
2024
- Christine L. Parks for Earth Borne
- Suzanne Scarfone for Walking in Sound
- Susan Knoppow for Silver Anniversary
2023
- Allison “Sonny” Kennedy for Nonprofit Industrial Hot Bitch
- Kevin Griffin for Note the Tone
- Kathleen McGookey for Cloud Reports
2021
- Beth Bullmer, for Rhubarb Pie Without Berries
- Michelle Ringle-Barrett for The Once Whites of Women’s Eyes
- Diana Dinverno, for When Truth Comes Home to Roost
- Joy Gaines-Friedler, for Stone on Your Stone
2020
- Gemma Weslowski, for Ouido
- Simon Thalmann, for Pretty Haunted Meadow
- Colleen Alles, for So What to Say to a Bird
2019
- Emily Daniel, Life Line
- Todd Mercer, Ingénue
- Marc Sheehan, Minor Late Empire Diversions
- Laszlo Slomovits, Masks & Blessings
2018
- Scott Bade for My Favorite Thing About Desire
- Margaret DeRitter for Fly Me to Heaven By Way of New Jersey
- Sophia Rivkin, of Detroit, for River of Snow
- Janice Zerfas, of Eau Claire, for Head Shot
2017
- Polly Opsahl, of Oscoda, for Heartstorm
- Michelle Bonczek Evory for A Roadside Attempt at Attraction
- Amber Pryor for Definitions of Grief
- Julie Stotz-Ghosh for All Sky
2016
- Joe Gross for Everything at Rest is Waiting to Move
- Nancy Nott for Poems in Two States
- Steve Leggett, of Ann Arbor for Entropy in the New World
- Amy Carpenter Leugs, of Grand Rapids, for The One Inside the Onion
2015
- Danna Ephland for A Small Acrylic Frame
- Janeen Rastall, of Marquette, for Objects May Appear Closer
2014
- Marci Rae Johnson, of Three Oaks, for A Dictionary of Theories
- C.J. Giroux, of Saginaw, for Destination Michigan
- Nicole Burchette Mattison, for Bone Totems
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