Announcing the Results of the 2024 Foster-Stahl Chapbook Series  

Hello, 

Thank you all for submitting your manuscripts to us for the Foster-Stahl Chapbook Series. We apologize for the delay in making this announcement, and we appreciate your patience. We are grateful to everyone who gave us the opportunity to read and consider their work. The excellence and range of the manuscripts we read made the selection process at once terrific and extremely difficult. 

In the end, two manuscripts were selected for publication. Below are the complete results, including the finalist:  

Foster-Stahl Chapbook Series Selections: 

Pineapple Darling – Jenna Goldsmith 

The Witch’s Mouth – Brittany N. Jaekel  

Finalist 

Film of the Production of a Book of Poems Viewed in Reverse – Tate Lewis-Carroll 

We are planning to release the selected chapbooks in the spring of 2026. Submissions for the Foster-Stahl Chapbook Series are open September 1, 2025 – March 1, 2026.   

Thanks so much to everyone who submitted their work to the Series—we will be sending everyone a copy of the books when they are published next year. We’re grateful for the opportunity to have read your work, and we wish you all the best in placing your manuscripts elsewhere. 

Thanks again, all the best, and take care… 

MWC Press / Series Editors 

Bio for Jenna Goldsmith: 

Jenna Goldsmith is a poet, writer, and educator living in the Midwest. Her first full-length poetry collection, The Worse for Wear (Cornerstone Press/UW Stevens Point) will be published in January, 2026. She directs the Oregon State University Cascades low-residency MFA Program in Writing and was City Poet Laureate of Rockford, Illinois from 2023-2025.   

Bio for Brittany N. Jaekel:  

Brittany N. Jaekel writes from the outer reaches of the Twin Cities. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in RHINO, $: Poetry is Currency, MER (Mom Egg Review), Third Wednesday, Right Hand Pointing, Club Plum Literary Journal, and elsewhere. She serves on the editorial team at Great Lakes Review and recently joined the board of directors of her local American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) chapter. Connect with Brittany at brittanynjaekel.com  

The Foster-Stahl Chapbook Series is supported by the MWC Legacy Society, the estates of Mary Foster and Richard “Dick” Stahl, the Scott County Regional Authority, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency.