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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 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.