Announcing the winners of the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowships

CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP AWARD WINNERS

Dolapo Demuren
selected by Monica Ferrell

• Read a poem from Demuren’s manuscript, American Love Sonnets.

Harrison Hamm
selected by C. Dale Young

• Read a poem from Hamm's manuscript, If It’s Country Music You Want.

FINALISTS

Claire Christoff
selected by C. Dale Young

• Read a poem from Christoff's manuscript, Case Study.

Kami Enzie
selected by Monica Ferrell

• Read a poem from Enzie's manuscript, East Harlem Academy of Maps and Letters.

Winners

Dolapo Demuren (he/him) is a Nigerian-American writer and educator from the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. He received his B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University, M.F.A from Columbia University and Ed.D from the University of Southern California. His honors include a fellowship from the Cave Canem Foundation and The Academy for Teachers, as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and nominations for the Pushcart Prize. His poems and other writings are featured or forthcoming in the Adroit Journal, Prairie Schooner, Prelude Magazine, On the Seawall, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland College Park, where he is currently the associate director of the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House.

Harrison Hamm is a poet and film/TV writer from rural West Tennessee. An alum of Loyola Marymount University with dual B.A.s in Women’s & Gender Studies and Screenwriting, he begins an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at New York University this fall as a Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellow. His screenplays have been awarded and recognized by GLAAD, The Black List, Diverso, New York Stage and Film, and more. Nominated for Best New Poets and a semifinalist for The Adroit Journal Djanikian & Veasna So Scholars and the Snowbound Chapbook Award, his work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, The Missouri Review, Foglifter, DIAGRAM, Hominum Journal, Verse Daily, and the anthologies Poetry Goes to Movies (Pacific Coast Poetry Series, 2025), Ecobloomspaces (Iron Oak Editions, 2025) and Delicate Machinery (Sundress Publications, 2025), among others.

Finalists

Claire Christoff is a writer and editor from Indianapolis. In 2023, she received her MFA from the University of Illinois. Her work has most recently appeared in Poetry Northwest, The New Criterion, and Post Road.

Kami Enzie (he/him) is a New Orleans–raised, D.C.-based writer. His work appears in Chicago Review, The Glacier, Image, New American Writing, Obsidian, Passages North, Quarter Notes, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of Tin House Winter Workshops, Vermont College of Fine Art’s Postgraduate Writers’ Conference, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow.