: a small book containing ballads, poems, tales, or tracts
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This essay is an edited excerpt from the chapbook Jig, published in the Cahier Series (January 2026) by the Center for Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris, and Sylph Editions, London.—Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026 Her chapbook, The White Swallow, was selected by Aimee Bender as the winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition; her short fiction has been anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading and has appeared in The Kenyon Review and The Iowa Review.—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026 Over the next 300 years, chapbooks and broadside ballads became mainstays in Britain.—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025 The students spend the semester writing and polishing a novel excerpt, memoir excerpt, or chapbook length collection of poetry.—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chapbook