The Start A Riot! Poetry Chapbook Prize emerges from a specific cultural and geographic urgency: the rapid gentrification and displacement of queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and writers of color in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded by Foglifter Press in partnership with Still Here San Francisco, the prize is both a literary award and a act of preservation—a deliberate investment in the voices that have historically been pushed to the margins of both the publishing industry and the city itself. It is rooted in the revolutionary history of QTBIPOC+ communities, and its name is not incidental; it signals a curatorial commitment to work that is formally daring and politically alive. The prize is not merely a cash award. The selected poet receives publication of their first chapbook, a $3,000 prize, and an additional $1,000 to support book tour and promotion. Crucially, the winner works directly with Foglifter's team through editorial, design, production, and promotion processes—an immersive apprenticeship in the life of a book. This hands-on involvement is designed to cultivate skills, experience, and relationships that extend well beyond the publication date. The press's decision to keep all manuscripts anonymous throughout the reading and judging process further underscores an ethical commitment to let the work speak first, free from the biases that can attend names and reputations. The judging panel—Kim Shuck, MJ O'Brien, and Brandon Logans—brings a range of poetic and community engagements that align with the prize's mission. Their collective discernment will guide the selection of a single chapbook that embodies the risk, rigor, and resonance implied by the prize's title. For the emerging QTBIPOC+ writer, this is an opportunity to enter a lineage of Bay Area literary resistance, and to do so with the structural support of a press that understands the stakes of visibility and survival.