The Harvard Review Chapbook Prize is a new literary prize celebrating chapbook-length work in all genres (15-30 poems, 15,000 words of prose). Awarded bi-annually, rotating through genres (fiction, poetry, nonfiction), the inaugural prize, for an outstanding work in fiction between 15,000 and 30,000 words, was judged by the writer Lily King.

Harvard Review is Harvard University’s semi-annual literary journal. Founded in 1992, it publishes poetry, essays, fiction, drama, criticism, book reviews and interviews. From its beginnings, the journal has been committed to showcasing the work of emerging writers alongside established voices. Past contributors include such literary legends as Andrea Barrett, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds, David Foster Wallace, John Updike, Seamus Heaney, and Gore Vidal. Two Pulitzer Prize-winners—Jhumpa Lahiri and Paul Harding—made their literary debut in the pages of the journal.