Comstock Review, Inc. (“CR Inc”) was formed in November 2019 as a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization to support the writing community. CR Inc became the publisher of The Comstock Review, a poetry journal with a 35-year heritage, in 2020. CR Inc also oversees the associated Muriel Craft Bailey poetry contest, the Kathleen Bryce Niles Chapbook contest and the Comstock Review Chapbook Contest, along with publication of the first-prize winning chapbooks. Other projects focus may focus on young authors, collaborations with community literary organizations, support for marginalized writers and other similar activities.
**********January 2024**********
Our guidelines for submission to The Comstock Review’s Open Reading Period, Poem Contest and Chapbook Contest have been revised and updated. Please read the Guidelines carefully!
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Journal
The Comstock Review is a print journal, currently produced in two issues a year, with an open reading period from Jan 1 to Mar 31. No fee is charged by CR Inc for submissions during the open reading.
Click here to subscribe to The Comstock Review
Click here to learn about submitting poems during our free Open Reading Period
Poetry Contest
The annual Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest accepts submissions from April 1 to July 15 (fee-based submission). Prizes that are awarded to the first, second and third place winners, who are selected by the final judge. Prize-winning poems, honorable mention poems and poems of special merit appear in the Fall/Winter issue of the journal. In 2024 the final judge is Charles Rafferty.
Click here to learn more about the 2023 judge, Danusha Laméris
Click here to learn about submitting poems to the Muriel Craft Bailey Poem Contest
Chapbook Contests
CR Inc sponsors two chapbook contests with fee-based submissions in alternating years: the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Award in odd years and the Comstock Review Chapbook Contest in even years, both of which accept submissions from August 1 to October 31 in the year they are open.
The 2023 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Award will be announced by Kathleen Bryce Niles-Overton in early 2024.
To purchase a copy of the winning chapbook via Submittable go to https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit
Click here to learn about submitting a manuscript to either of our Chapbook Contests
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THE COMSTOCK REVIEW EDITORS
John M Bellinger Managing Editor
Carolyn Ostrander Managing Editor
Betsy Anderson
Abayomi Animashaun
Clare Chu
Peggy Sperber Flanders
Michael McAnaney
Peggy Miller
Kathleen Bryce Niles-Overton (emeritus)
Martin Willitts, Jr.
Raphael Kosek
Amanda Russell
ART EDITOR
Michael Sickler
BOOK DESIGN
Gopa Campbell
COVER DESIGN
Jonas Sickler
Learn more about us by clicking on the links below:
- In the Beginning (a retrospective look at the early days of The Comstock Review)
- Comstock Review, Inc – a 501c3 non-profit organization