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Who We Are: The Comstock Writers’ Group incorporated in 1986. From its inception as a workshop for local poets begun in the living room of Jennifer MacPherson, it grew from its small beginnings as Poetpourri to the nationally known Comstock Review, soon to enter its third decade of publication.  Click here to read more about our history...   Also visit:  Names of current editors and  sample poems of editors, past and present. 


O P E N    R  E  A  D  I  N  G     P  E  R  I  O  D 
ENDS WITH POSTMARK OF March 15, 2012.  No reading fee.
Please note: We do not accept e-mail submissions!!! 
Nor do we accept simultaneous submissions as of 2011.

Georgia A. Popoff is our Managing Editor as of 2010.

Click here:
"HOW TO SUBMIT" for Open Reading Period guidelines. To order samples or subscriptions click here.


The next Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST will be held in 2012. 
 Submissions accepted April 1 - July 1, 2012
Entry fee required.  All rules must be followed

Final Judge: Dorianne Laux 
First Prize - $1 ,000
2nd Prize  -$250;   3rd Prize - $100;
Honorable Mentions - Subscriptions

Please carefully review rules which must be followed
click Here.   


The Comstock Writers' Group Editors are pleased to announce our
 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest Winner 2011
(Prize: $1,000 and Fifty Copies of the Winning Chapbook)

Lucinda Grey of Charlotte, NC
The Blue Hills: Poems After the Life of Maud Gonne

Second Place
David Stallings of Bainbridge Island, WA
Resurrection Bay

Third Place
Judith Werner of Brooklyn, NY
Consider the Birds of the Air



HONORABLE MENTION CHAPBOOKS (IN ALPHABETIC ORDER)

Bridget Gage-Dixon of Jackson, NJ
for Words that White Girls Shouldn’t Say
Ellaraine Lockie of Sunnyvale, CA for
Ain’t I a Woman (In honor of Sojourner Truth’s speech ...)
Trent Nutting of Wallingford, CT for Substance, Burning
Clara Quinlan of Louisville, CO for Northing
Bruce Sager of Westminster, MD for Evening Song
Edwina Trenthamn of Moodus, CT for Still on this Earth


SPECIAL MERIT CHAPBOOKS (IN ALPHABETIC ORDER)

Mary Christine Delea of Oregon City, OR for Lawn Guy Land
Jane Downs of Kensington, CA for April Elegy
Ken Fifer of Center Valley, PA for Maps
Priscilla Frake of Sugar Land, TX for Correspondence
Roberta Hatcher of Pittsburgh, PA
for We Go Out So Far, We Return
Judy Ireland of West Palm Beach, FL for Cement Shoes
Reeves Keyworth, of Tucson, AZ
for Transvestite & Partner, With Seashells
Kathleen Kirk of Normal, IL for Spiritual Midwifery
Ellen Mainville of Malone, NY for The House that Walks into the Sea
K.A. McGowan of Duson, LA for Diminished
Natasha Murdock of Tempe, AZ for The Body Voids
Patricia Murphy of Clinton, NY for The Occupant
Denise Rue of North Brunswick, NJ for A Small System of Belief
Dirk Stratton of Mead, WA for Love Songs for the Apocalypse

We regret we have only one monetary prize to award and congratulate all the top chapbooks that were considered by the Final Judge, Kathleen Bryce Niles.
All contestants will receive a copy of the winning chapbook upon publication. Please keep your address current with us.

Click here for previous chapbook winners and special merit honors.



Comstock Review is pleased to announce the
Winners of the 2011 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest
Marilyn Nelson, Judge
Check out information about our Judge at: 
www.soulmountainretreat.org

FIRST PRIZE The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
($1,000)

BJ Buckley, of Power, Montana, for Ne Dirvatur Fuga Temporum

Second Prize, $250
BJ Buckley, of Power, Montana, for Li Po and the Moon

Third Prize, $100
Anna Scotti, of Santa Monica, California, for Twelve

First Honorable Mention
Steve Lautermilch, of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, for Basho Mujo

Second Honorable Mention
Trent Nutting, of Wallingford, Connecticut, for Air Raid

Third Honorable Mention
Josephine Yu, of Tallahassee, Florida, for Cock, an Etymology

Please click here to see the complete list of Special Merit poets and poems that were submitted to the judge. 


Visit LINKS added to regularly !!  
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Comstock Review Poets: 
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Are you a Comstock Review poet?
In our continuing efforts to publicize the poets we have featured in the last 19 years, we welcome your web and book site links. Special emphasis on poets' sites featuring poetry. Send your URL's.    (Contact us here)  Reviews have been sporadic since Jennifer MacPherson's stroke suffered in February 2010.  If you have received notice that we will review your book and it does not appear, please write us at poetry@comstockreview.org


What kind of poetry interests us?  
C
lick on:  Contest Winners
which includes our previous national judges' names.
To see winning poems, click on names of individual poems on that page.
Also see: 
Winners year 2000 and before or Sample Poems (includes editors' sample poems)
General Information about 2007 Contest:
Click here for Rules and Judge's bio.
Click
here for guidelines if you need further information.
Check back in this space in 2009 for up to date rules!!  


PLEASE NOTE: The next Chapbook contest is expected to be August 1 - Sept. 30, 2013
Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest Winners

as selected by Kathleen Bryce Niles, Final Judge

Click here for the rules for the 2011 contest for your planning in 2013.

2011:  Lucinda Grey of Charlotte, NC, The Blue Hills:
Poems After the Life of Maud Gonne
2009:  Lynne Martin Bowman, Water Never Sleeps
2007:  Jennifer Key, The Manifest Destiny of Desire
2005:  J. F. Connolly.................. Among the Living
2003:   Sophie Wadsworth.......Letters from Siberia
We invite you to order a copy of the winning chapbooks.  Please e-mail for details and availability to poetry@comstockreview.org  

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