Start a Riot!—a chapbook prize for Bay Area emerging queer and trans black writers, indigenous writers, and writers of color!

Foglifter Press, RADAR Productions, and Still Here San Francisco are pleased to announce the second year of Start a Riot!—a chapbook prize for Bay Area 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.

Submitters must identify as a QTBIPOC+ literary artist, be a current resident of the larger San Francisco Bay Area, and have no previous full-length publication in their submission genre. This year, we’re accepting anything that falls under the prose umbrella—fiction, nonfiction, graphic novel, hybrid, cross-genre. Submissions are open September 1st to November 1st 2021. The results will be announced in the spring, and the winning chapbook published in fall of 2022.

The first winner of the Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize was Nefertiti Asanti (they/she), a poet born and raised in the Bronx and a recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Watering Hole, Lambda Literary, Anaphora Arts, Winter Tangerine, and the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Nefertiti’s work can be found at AfroPunk, Santa Clara Review, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Currently, Nefertiti serves as prose poetry editor for Stellium Literary Magazine. Their chapbook, fist of wind, will be released this fall.

Applications, and more information, can be accessed through Foglifter’s website.