Moonstone Arts Center, a longstanding fixture in Philadelphia's literary community, has opened submissions for its 2026 Chapbook Contest. The contest runs from June 7, 2026, to November 1, 2026, and carries a $20 entry fee. The winning poet receives a $500 cash prize, publication of the chapbook, twenty-five copies of the book, promotion on the Moonstone website, and a reading at one of the organization's Philadelphia venues—or a virtual reading if the poet prefers. This is a contest with a clear, material outcome: a published book and a public reading, not merely a citation. The manuscript should consist of approximately thirty-five pages of poetry. Individual poems may have been previously published, but the collection as a whole must be new. Moonstone permits simultaneous submissions to other publishers or contests, provided the press is notified promptly if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere. The formatting requirements are precise: one poem per page, with continued poems indicating stanza breaks; thirty-five lines equal one page; divider pages and section titles count toward the total page count; and line counts must include spaces between stanzas and any numbers or section breaks. These are not arbitrary constraints but the practical terms of producing a physical chapbook. The contest is open to poets at any stage, though the chapbook format—shorter than a full-length collection, often more concentrated—tends to suit work that coheres around a tight thematic or formal inquiry. Moonstone's history of community programming and its Philadelphia reading venues suggest an interest in poetry that lives off the page as well as on it. The absence of a stated aesthetic mandate means the jury will likely respond to manuscripts with a distinct voice and internal logic, rather than to a particular school or style.