Subbed In

Subbed In is a not-for-profit volunteer-run independent literary organisation and small press based in Sydney, Australia. We provide a platform to amplify underrepresented voices, facilitating grassroots support for young and emerging writers to achieve publication or performance.

In early 2018 we launched our second annual Chapbook Prize, hoping to find the next book we would publish. We had an overwhelming response to the callout with more than 100 entries. We were staggered by the quality of the submissions received and after much deliberation managed to narrow the list of finalists down to 14.

We have the funds and resources to publish one of these finalist's book but given the overwhelming quality of the work we have decided to launch this campaign to fund publication of at least two more titles.

All of the finalists' manuscripts are worthy of publication and the more funds received the more books we'll be able to publish!

Finalists:

Plunge The Mirkwood — Sumudu Samarawickrama

Unicorns with Unibrows — Brianna Bullen

Friends of Charlene/ANGEL K: contemporary stan culture and defacto gay motherhood, the angelic pop figurehead, and emotional risk in Kylie Minogue's music — Jonno Revanche

The Hostage — Šime Knežević

sediment — Claire Albrecht

If you're sexy and you know it slap your hams — Eloise Grills

Wheeze — Marcus Whale

burgeoning — Zhi Yi Cham

DOOM GUT — Ursula Robinson-Shaw

Pag-asa't Panalangin — Joseph Schwarzkopf

WHEN I DIE SLINGSHOT MY ASHES ONTO THE SURFACE OF THE MOON — Jennifer Nguyen

nostalgia has ruined my life — Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

how to eat fire and why — Mitch Cave

HAUNT (THE COOLIE) — Jason Gray

In 2017 we published the work of Allison Gallagher, Aisyah Shah Idil and Emily Crocker. We hope you will help us to continue publishing and amplifying new and important voices. 

Design and typesetting: $500

Cover design and layout: $200

Printing and binding: $1300

More funds=more books!