We are proud to announce the winner of the
2023 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest
Judge: Kathleen Bryce Niles-Overton
Sponsored by Comstock Review, Inc.
Congratulations to Winner Robin Michel,
for the chapbook Things Will be Better In Bountiful – coming soon!
Honorable Mentions:
Dion O’Reilly, Blessing The Burn
Jenna Rindo, Bone River Fever
Ellen Roberts Young, Beauty and Strength: Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Subjects
Finalists
Laura Foley, Ice Cream for Lunch: A Grandparent’s Handbook
Gabriel Furshong, Things Not to Be Said
Robert Harlow, Dancing On Moonlawn Road
Elizabeth Hickson, In Vitro
Mary Beth Hines, Touch Anything
Christine Klocek-Lim, Parable
Tara Mesalik MacMahon, Stars I Could Not Calculate
Grace Massey, A Future with Bromeliads
Judith Montgomery, The Ferry Keeper
Jamie O’Halloran, Sea Roads
Dion O’Reilly, Limerence
LeeAnn Olivier, Chimera
Christopher Shipman, River of Bricks
Dane Slutzky, End at the Beginning
Gary Stein, Adam’s Lament
Terry Watada, Masks
William Welch, The Next Day in Babel
Ren Wilding, Transmuted Electrons
For a brief bio of Jessie Bryce Niles, click here
The 2024 Comstock Review Chapbook Contest will open for submissions in August 2024
Prize: $1000 plus publication and 50 author’s copies.
Judge: Abayomi Animashaun
Sponsored by Comstock Review, Inc.
$30 per chapbook (includes a copy of the winning chapbook)
Submissions accepted August 1 – October 31
Important! The Submission Guidelines have changed! Read carefully:
1) Previous 1st prize winners in our chapbook contests are ineligible.
2) *NEW* Submit work not previously published as a collection (single poems may have been published). Do NOT submit AI-generated work. Immediately withdraw any submission accepted elsewhere.
3) *REVISED* Submit a cover page with title only, Table of Contents, and 25-34 pages of poetry, single-spaced. Number all pages.
4) *REVISED* All entries are screened by editors of The Comstock Review before going to the final judge. To ensure impartiality, do not include author’s name or identifying information anywhere in the submitted manuscript.
5) *REVISED* The poet name, address, phone number, e-mail address, bio and acknowledgements should ONLY be included in the cover letter.
6) *REVISED* Do not send title page with author’s name, dedications, graphics, illustrations or cover art. Only the winner will provide these.
Your manuscript will not be returned.
Print Manuscripts only:
7. Print manuscripts should be paginated and secured with a binder clip; no staples or plastic covers.
8. Include 2 cover pages: 1 with the manuscript title, poet’s name, address, phone number, and e-mail address; second with the manuscript title only.
9. Include SASE for results only; manuscripts will not be returned.
SUBMIT ONLINE: $30 + online fees using the button below:
Submit by MAIL in a binder clip, together with a check or money order for $30 to:
The Comstock Review, att: Chapbook Contest, 4956 St. John Drive, Syracuse, NY 13215
COMSTOCK REVIEW, Inc is proud to announce the
WINNER of The 2022 COMSTOCK REVIEW CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Jay Udall from Oakton, Virginia
Reach Beyond Reach
Judge: Peggy Sperber Flanders, Editor, Comstock Review
Prize: $1,000, publication and 50 copies of the chapbook
HONORABLE MENTIONS [Honorable Mentions receive a subscription to CR].
Renny Golden, Rogues and Saints
Ruth Hoberman, Art Class for Adults
Alice Campbell Romano, The Consolation of Geometry
FINALISTS (in alpha order)
Ingrid Andersson — To Save the Life of the Mother
Clare Chu — How to Love a Fisherwoman
Joann Deiudicibus — Lost & Found
Gail Rudd Entrekin — The Mother/Daughter Papers, Poems 1988-2022
Jeffrey Greene — Bioluminescence
Hilary King — A Vase Before Flowers
Steve Lautermilch — Mandala
Timothy Martin — Burnt Offerings
John Morrison — The Hour of Crickets
Allan Peterson — Half Life
Amanda Rabaduex — nostalgia for the burning world
J. Stephen Rhodes — Sometimes You Know Yourself
Joyce Schmid — Natural Science
Mara Adamitz Scrupe — Refugium [Drawing Lessons]
Martin Shapiro — Drinking in Queens
Gary Stein — The Imaginary Grandfather
Feral Wilcox — Glossary of Snow
Ren Wilding — Feathered Heart
We thank all the contestants who entered.
All entries listed here were screened by Comstock Review Editors before going to Final Judge.
All entrants will receive a copy of the winning chapbook upon publication.
Please keep your address current with us: www.comstockreview.org
Did you know? In between submission periods, this link still takes you to the Comstock Review’s Submittable page, where you can also subscribe to The Comstock Review or purchase copies of chapbooks and journal issues.
RECENT CHAPBOOK CONTEST WINNERS
COMSTOCK REVIEW IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE
The 2021 Jessie Bryce Nile Chapbook Contest Winner
Harmless Encounters by Raphael Kosek
Judge: Kathleen Bryce Niles-Overton, The Comstock Review Founding Editor
(Award: $1,000 and 50 Copies of the Winning Chapbook)
Harmless Encounters by Raphael Kosek. Winner of the 2021 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest.
HONORABLE MENTION
Offerings, Dana Salvador
***** and ****
The Comstock Review 35th Anniversary Chapbook Winner
In January the Geese by B. J. Buckley
(Award: $1,000 and 50 Copies of the Winning Chapbook)
Judge: Betsy Anderson, Comstock Review, Inc President
and Managing Editor of The Comstock Review
In January the Geese by B. J. Buckley, 2021 winner of the Comstock Review 35th Anniversary Chapbook Contest
HONORABLE MENTION
Culaccino, Marion Boyer
FINALISTS for both 2021 Chapbook Contests
Bruce Berger – – Genesis and Other Poems
Martha Brenkle – – It Hurts, This Whirl of Stars
Kathleen Cain – – Unity
Gabriel Furshong – – Things Not to be Said
Charles Grosel – – Our Lump of Clay
James Hall – – Smaller Things
Anthony Immergluck – – Cohabitations
Steve Lautermilch – – Mouth
Ed McManis – – The Zombie Family Takes a Selfie
Susan Cumming Miller – – Wonderlust
James Miller – – The Session is Now in Session
Patricia Davis-Muffett – – alchemy of yeast and tears
Marianne Peel Rags – – Unravelling from My Chest
Jeffrey Skinner – – How I got behind the Sky
Matthew Thorbarn – – 2020
Katherine Trakhtenbroit – – Spellbook for the Sabbath Queen
Sally Zakariya – – Field Guide for a Fragile Planet
COMSTOCK REVIEW IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE the
WINNER of its 2020 CHAPBOOK CONTEST
WINNER:
Heidi Seaborn from Seattle, WA
Bite Marks
(Award: $1,000 and 50 Copies of the Winning Chapbook)
FINALISTS
Hillary Chester-Peedin — rippedragged
Dante Di Stefano — Little Low Heavens
H.E. Fisher — Sally, Dick and Jane
Becky Gibson — The Passion of Chrysanthemums
Michael Hill — Junk Drawer
Jackleen Holton — Of Her Country at Half Mast
Rob Hunter — Pinprick of Small Catastrophe
Markham Johnson — This Time You’re Going to Win
Marilyn E. Johnston — Life in space
Susanna Lang — Like This
Steve Lautermilch — Walking a Mandala in Moonlight
Susan Cummins Miller — The Journey to Knowing
Daniel Edward Moore — The Seamstress and the Tailor
Jed Myers — Word of our Crossing
Jenna Rindo — Gestate, Complicate, Propagate
Marzelle Robertson — Worth the Winning
Mary Sesso — Her Hair Plays with Fire
Martin Settle — The Metaphorest
K.V. Skene — Talking to the Dead
Dianne Stepp — The Nest’s Dark Eye
Anne Dyer Stuart — What Girls Learn
Colette Tennant — The 16th Chapel
Joseph Zaccardi — Watching the Waterwheel
We thank all the contestants who entered. All entries listed here were screened by Comstock Review Editors before going to Final Judge, Michael McAnaney. All entrants will receive a copy of the winning chapbook upon publication.
Reminder: Please keep your address current with us: poetry@comstockreview.org