Prizes & Nominations

Chapter House Journal names its work among the year’s most vital, nominating pieces for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best New Poets anthology. We also forge our own constellations, awards made in-house, shaped by the voices we carry and the risks we honor. Here is a gathering of those recognitions:

2026 Best New Poets Anthology Nominations

“Arizona Abecedarian” by Cheyenne Dakota Williams

Featured in the Summer 2025 Issue

“Perhaps I’ll keep on looking at these places from above and never

question where I have been…”

“ka naʻi aupuni” by Donavan Kamakani Albano

Featured in the Winter 2026 Issue

“reach for molokaʻi within me, and just rip ʻem. in his words
i became what i’m meant to: silent

indisposed

smoke”

Selected by Debra Magpie Earling for the Summer 2025 Issue

2025 INDIGENOUS FICTION PRIZE

“I was captured by Jessica Doe’s dark short story “Poached” where a desperate woman thinks the solution to her problems might be found in surrogacy, and although I saw just a hair past the narrator, I did not see my way to the story’s beastly conclusion.” - Debra Magpie Earling

Poached by Jessica Doe

Selected by m.s. RedCherries for the Winter 2025 Issue

2025 INDIGENOUS POETRY PRIZE