Vallum is so pleased to congratulate the winners of this year’s Chapbook Award! Winner: Vivek Sharma – Dollar Store Poems 2nd place: Andrew Barter – Acolyte 3rd place: M. Brooke Wiese – Cormorants Prepare for the End Times Congratulations to all three poets for their outstanding work.

We’re honoured to share the shortlist for the 2026 Vallum Chapbook Award. Each manuscript: a world. Each poet: a force. Thank you to all who submitted!

Poems from the Crowd 2026 is now available! A digital issue of contemporary poetry. Download it for free. Happy reading! vallummag.com/product/poem...

We are honored to share a new chapbook titled SHOOKY SESSION 2: FRANZ KAFKA, THE BLUE OCTAVO NOTEBOOKS, 12 MAY 2023, PARC TRENHOLME
by Jason Camlot and Stuart Ross @razovsky.bsky.social Visit our website to order your copy - vallummag.com/product/42-j...

Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem THE DAY I MADE IT TO HARVARD by Amlanjyoti Goswami

Visit our website vallummag.com/whats-it-all... to read a full Interview with Poets Daniel Cowper and Emily Osborne, and Reviews of Cowper’s Kingdom of the Clock (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) and Osborne’s Safety Razor (Gordon Hill Press, 2023) by Bill Neumire @wjneumire

Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem OAHU by Maureen Korp

Vallum’s 2026 Chapbook Award is now officially open! You can find the contest guidelines here. We look forward to reading your best work: vallummag.com/guidelines-c...

A conversation with Jason Camlot, interviewed by Rosie Long Decter and originally published in a past issue of Vallum, is now online. They explore poetry, music, and the unexpected connections between them. Read the full interview: vallummag.com/a-conversati...

Another Longue Durée by Ian Cappelli, winner of the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award, is available in both print and digital formats. We’re pleased to share this exceptional work. Only 125 numbered copies are available in print, so be sure to get yours soon. Order your copy - tinyurl.com/7cu62bw8

Enjoy the selected poem Resting (Not Sleeping), from Postal Work or, Day After Day by Edie Reaney Chunn, winner of 2nd place in the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award. It’s already live on our website: vallummag.com/resting-not-...

Enjoy the selected poem Luckett Creek, 2010, from Weathering Pen by Laura Amsel, winner of 3rd place in the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award. It’s already live on our website: vallummag.com/luckett-cree...

Poems from the Crowd open for submissions! Submissions are accepted from October 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. There is no fee to submit your work. Submit up to 3 poems, max 60 lines each. GOOD LUCK! Check the guidelines and submit via the link: vallum.submittable.com/submit/33753...

Visit our website vallummag.com/featured-rev... to read a full Featured Review The Waste Land Project reviewed by George Elliott Clarke

Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem A GOOGLE MAPS VIEW OF THE HOUSE WHERE I GREW UP by John Barton.

We are honored to share this important and powerful chapbook. The Waste Land Project by Madhur Anand, Alex Averbuch, Erin Robinsong, A. F. Moritz, Halyna Kruk, and Iryna Shuvalova is now available in print and digital formats. Visit our website to order your copy tinyurl.com/3ydcp6zy

Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem IF YOUR DREAMS ARE ENDING by Elana Wolff.

Vallum is so pleased to congratulate the winners of this year’s Chapbook Award! Winner: Ian Cappelli – Another Longue Durée 2nd place: Edie Chunn – Postal Work or, Day After Day 3rd place: Laura Amsel – Weathering Pen Congratulations to all three poets for their outstanding work.

We’re honoured to share the shortlist for the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award. Each manuscript: a world. Each poet: a force. Thank you to all who submitted.

Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem CAUGHT by Angeline Schellenberg.

*Poems from the Crowd* is now available! Explore the poems of contemporary poets for the donation price of $2 CDN (in digital format). We’ve also published a limited print edition of 100 copies for this first issue of the series: Summer 2025. ($8) Happy reading! vallummag.com/product/poem...

Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem SKATEBOARD from a chapbook by Thurston Moore and John Kinsella.

Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem MORNING by Jeffrey Mackie

Thank you for submitting your work for consideration to the "Poems from the Crowd" series! We received over 300 submissions from the lovely crowd that you are! Unfortunately, if you have not been contacted yet it means your submission was not chosen this time around. Thank you again!

Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem PABLO PICASSO VISITS JAMES JOYCE AND THEY DISCUSS YOUTH by Michael Mirolla

Discover an insightful conversation: Interview by T. Liem with Ockert Greeff, Winner of the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award (No. 39) Read the full interview at vallummag.com/interview-by...

Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem Prelude by Jan Zwicky

Vallum's Chapbook Award/Contest for 2025 is now officially open! Check out the contest guidelines vallummag.com/guidelines-c... and send us your best work. We look forward to reading it!

Hello to all our friends! Another year is coming to an end, fraught with many difficulties and challenges across the world. Hopefully, we may find some solace in poetry. We wish you all good holidays and a renewed spirit for the new year!

An Inked Shorthand of Marks T. Liem in conversation with Jami Macarty Read full interview at vallummag.com/an-inked-sho...