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JOHN M. BELLINGER and CAROLYN OSTRANDER,
Managing Editors
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| * Comstock Review Chapbook Contest Submissions Close Tonight, Oct 31 *
* Volume 38 Issue 1 of The Comstock Review 2024 is delayed – more info coming soon!* |
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Note:
We are currently undergoing some repairs on our site,
and can’t update our red reminder banner at the moment (see the box above).
As we work on necessary changes, the website may be unavailable for some short times over the next few months. We apologize for the inconvenience.
If you can’t reach us here, please try our submittable page (https://comstockreview.submittable.com/ to submit poems, subscribe or donate. For other questions, email us at poetry@comstockreview.org. Thank you for your patience!
Update: delayed issue
Due to several factors beyond our control,
Volume 38 Issue 1 of The Comstock Review (2024),
which ordinarily arrives in August, was delayed.
We sincerely apologize and hope to have it in your hands
by the end of November.
If you are a subscriber or contributor, you should receive
more information shortly. Please don’t hesitate to contact
the managing editors if you have additional questions.
As always, thank you for your support.
Carolyn Ostrander and John M. Bellinger,
on behalf of The Comstock Review
The 2024 Comstock Review Chapbook Contest
will close for submissions October 31st
Prize: $1000 plus publication and 50 author’s copies.
Judge: Abayomi Animashaun
Accepting submission from Aug 1st to Oct. 31st 2024 (postmark or online submission date).
- Entry Fee: $30/chapbook (includes copy of winning chapbook) plus Submittable fees
Important: The Guidelines for submission have changed. Be sure to read them carefully before submitting!
To see our updated submission guidelines, click the Chapbook Contest tab above, or go to https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit and select Guidelines at the “2024 Comstock Review Chapbook Contest” tab there
The 2024 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest
Finalist poems being judged by the Judge, Charles Rafferty.
Results will be announced soon.
Important: if you submitted a poem to the contest, you will be hearing the outcome as soon as the winner is announced. If you have questions, please send a message via Submittable (the submit button will take you there), or if you sent your submission by USPS mail, you can email them to Carolyn Ostrander c/o poetry@comstockreview.or
Still available!
Things Will Be Better In Bountiful
by Robin Michel,
winner of the 2023 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest
2023 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest
Sponsored by Comstock Review, Inc.
Kathleen Bryce Niles-Overton, Judge
Winner: Robin Michel, Things Will Be Better in Bountiful
(publication, $1000 prize and 50 copies)
Honorable Mention and a 1 year subscription to The Comstock Review went to:
Dion O’Reilly, Blessing The Burn
Jenna Rindo, Bone River Fever
Ellen Roberts Young, Beauty and Strength: Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Subjects
For a complete list of finalists and more information,
see the Chapbook Contest page
Note: We are currently undergoing some repairs on our site, and it may be unavailable for some short times over the next few weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you can’t reach us here, please try our submittable page (https://comstockreview.submittable.com/ to submit poems, subscribe or donate. For other questions, email us at poetry@comstockreview.org. Thank you for your support!
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So well received we issued a 2nd printing !!!!
Now available –
the latest issue of
The Comstock Review
$12.50
via Submittable (small fee)
or order by mail
by sending your check or money order to:
The Comstock Review / P.O. Box 205 / LaFayette NY 13084
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DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE, SO YOU DON’T MISS A THING!
SUBSCRIBERS KEEP US GOING -AND- SUPPORT OUR POETS
One year – $25 Two Years – $45 (2 issues per year)
You can use Submittable for ease of subscription,
or send a note and check or money order by mail to:
The Comstock Review / P.O. Box 205 / LaFayette NY 13084
IF SUBMITTING, SUBSCRIBING OR PURCHASING AN ISSUE OR CHAPBOOK ONLINE,
YOU CAN USE THE BUTTON ABOVE.
The Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest:
See you in April 2025!
Your best, brightest and most beautiful poems deserve to shine brightly!
2025 Judge: Carolyne Wright
Important: The Guidelines for Submission have changed. Be sure to read them carefully before submitting!
Click the Poetry Contest tab above, or go to https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit and select Guidelines at the “Poetry Contest” tab there
A few copies of the 2022 Winning Chapbook are still available
Jay Udall from Oakton, Virginia
Reach Beyond Reach
Now Available via Submittable, or order by mail!
For more information and a list of Honorable mentions and Finalists, click the Chapbook Contest tab in the menu above
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The 2024 Comstock Review Chapbook Contest
is now open for submissions!!!
Prize: $1000 plus publication and 50 author’s copies.
Judge: Abayomi Animashaun
Accepting submission from Aug 1st to Oct. 31st 2024 (postmark or online submission date).
- Entry Fee: $30/chapbook (includes copy of winning chapbook) plus Submittable fees
Important: The Guidelines for submission have changed. Be sure to read them carefully before submitting!
To see our updated submission guidelines, click the Chapbook Contest tab above, or go to https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit and select Guidelines at the “Poetry Contest” tab there
Winners of the 2023 MurielCraft Bailey Poetry Contest!
| Thank you to Judge Danusha Laméris 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California. |
First Prize: $1,000 (The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award)
Jodi Balas “Bone Density”
Second Prize: $250
David Thoreen “Maybe”
Third Prize: $100
David Thoreen “Even in Spring Our Thoughts Sometimes Lapse into Darkness”
Honorable Mentions:
Connie Post “Aftermath”
Davi Gray “In Which She Embarked Upon a Voyage”
Honorable Mentions receive a one-year subscription.
( for all the finalists from 2023 including Special Merit Winners,
go to the Poetry Contest tab)
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2023 Poetry contest winning poems,
honorable mentions and special merit winners all appear in
The Comstock Review Fall/Winter 2023 Issue,
Cover art: “House on Fire No. 1″ by Linda Schrank”
available now via Submittable
or
Send check or money order to
The Comstock Review / P.O. Box 205 / LaFayette NY 13084
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Recent Comstock Review Pushcart Nominees
2022:
Rebecca Brock, “Sometime In The Late Age of A Long Marriage”
Linda Neal Reising, “After Learning That a Woman And Her Baby Were Killed In The Bombing Of A Ukrainian Hospital”
Frank Dixon Graham, “Tractor”
Deborah Doolittle, “Elizabeth Bishop’s Fish”
Sharon Charde, “Things”
Judith M. Montgomery, “Mother’s Day At Aspen Ridge Assisted Living”
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DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE, SO YOU DON’T MISS A THING!
SUBSCRIBERS KEEP US GOING -AND- SUPPORT OUR POETS
One year – $25 Two Years – $45 (2 issues per year)
You can use Submittable for ease of subscription,
or send a note and check or money order by mail to:
The Comstock Review / P.O. Box 205 / LaFayette NY 13084
IF SUBMITTING, SUBSCRIBING OR PURCHASING AN ISSUE OR CHAPBOOK ONLINE,
YOU CAN USE THE BUTTON ABOVE AND FOLLOW ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES .
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Did you know?
You can make a tax-deductible donation to support our work
Comstock Review, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit organization registered in the state of New York. Donations are tax-deductible.
Questions about submissions, subscriptions or donations can be emailed to poetry@comstockreview.org
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Comstock Review, Inc.
In the winter of 2019-2020 the editors of The Comstock Review decided to create a new organizational structure. Publication of The Comstock Review and all associated activities (including the poem and chapbook contests) were absorbed into Comstock Review, Inc., a newly formed 501c-3 non-profit organization. The Comstock Review, our flagship journal, continues to be produced by our seasoned editorial board, while day-to-day operations are carried out with the help and oversight of the Board of Directors of “CRInc.” Betsy Anderson, Managing Editor from is now also the Board President.
Stay tuned for updates to our website and other communication links!
SEE MORE ABOUT THESE CHANGES AND HOW YOU CAN HELP HERE
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Dear Poets and Readers:
For a long time now, our contributors have watched as the price of publishing poetry slowly rises here and there. There is no way around it, publishing a journal costs money. Some publications are supported by institutions, large grants or with other sources of outside funding – funding that can come with a certain cost in editorial freedom.
The Comstock Review has always been able to cover most of its operating costs with subscriptions and contest monies. As with most publications, we charge for some things. We have to.
But we also realize that any charges, however small they may seem to some, require a degree of financial sacrifice. Not everyone can afford these things.
So, every January we offer a free reading. It is our way of saying thank you. Thank you for reading our publication. Thank you for supporting us in this nearly 40-year journey. Without you, we would not be here. This magazine has always been yours.
So, we thank you as well. Always. We won’t forget you.
Please. Submit. Let us see what you are doing these days. And let us know that you appreciate our poets. Read the issues, and subscribe when you can.
Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064631562091
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The Comstock Review Open Reading Period
accepts Submissions Jan 1 through Mar 31 annually
(No reading fee!) via Submittable and by mail.
To submit by mail send poems
to The Comstock Review, Att: Open Reading,
4956 St. John Drive, Syracuse, NY 13215.
OR Submit online via comstockreview.submittable.com
Important! Our submission guidelines have changed
– read them on Submittable OR
by clicking on the Open Reading tab on our website.
“Dandelion” by Kevin Morrow
THE COMSTOCK REVIEW
Spring / Summer 2023
Vol 37 Issue 1
Masthead (click here)
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Submit Online using the button below.
Even when submissions are closed, you can still subscribe to The Comstock Review,
buy single journal issues, and purchase chapbooks on our Submittable page.
The 2024 Comstock Review Chapbook Contest
is now open for submissions!!!
Prize: $1000 plus publication and 50 author’s copies.
Judge: Abayomi Animashaun
Accepting submission from Aug 1st to Oct. 31st 2024 (postmark or online submission date).
- Entry Fee: $30/chapbook (includes copy of winning chapbook)
plus Submittable fees
Important: The Guidelines for submission have changed. Be sure to read them carefully before submitting!
To see our updated submission guidelines, click the Chapbook Contest tab above, or go to https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit and select Guidelines at the “Poetry Contest” tab there
HOT OFF THE PRESSES!!!!
Things Will Be Better In Bountiful
by Robin Michel,
winner of the 2023 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest
2023 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest
Sponsored by Comstock Review, Inc.
Kathleen Bryce Niles-Overton, Judge
Winner: Robin Michel, Things Will Be Better in Bountiful
(publication, $1000 prize and 50 copies)
Honorable Mention and a 1 year subscription to The Comstock Review went to:
Dion O’Reilly, Blessing The Burn
Jenna Rindo, Bone River Fever
Ellen Roberts Young, Beauty and Strength: Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Subjects
For a complete list of finalists and more information,
see the Chapbook Contest page
Note: We are currently undergoing some repairs on our site, and it may be unavailable for some short times over the next few weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you can’t reach us here, please try our submittable page (https://comstockreview.submittable.com/ to submit poems, subscribe or donate. For other questions, email us at poetry@comstockreview.org. Thank you for your support!
*************************
So well received we issued a 2nd printing !!!!
Now available –
the latest issue of
The Comstock Review
$12.50
via Submittable (small fee)
or order by mail
by sending your check or money order to:
The Comstock Review / P.O. Box 205 / LaFayette NY 13084
****************************************
DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE, SO YOU DON’T MISS A THING!
SUBSCRIBERS KEEP US GOING -AND- SUPPORT OUR POETS
One year – $25 Two Years – $45 (2 issues per year)
You can use Submittable for ease of subscription,
or send a note and check or money order by mail to:
The Comstock Review / P.O. Box 205 / LaFayette NY 13084
IF SUBMITTING, SUBSCRIBING OR PURCHASING AN ISSUE OR CHAPBOOK ONLINE,
YOU CAN USE THE BUTTON ABOVE.
The 2024 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest
Submission Period April 1st – July 15th
Judge: Charles Rafferty
Important: The Guidelines for submission have changed. Be sure to read them carefully before submitting!
To see our updated submission guidelines, click the Poetry Contest tab above, or go to https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit and select Guidelines at the “Poetry Contest” tab there
The Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest:
See you in April 2025!
Your best, brightest and most beautiful poems deserve to shine brightly!
2024 Judge: Charles Rafferty
Important: The Guidelines for Submission have changed. Be sure to read them carefully before submitting!
Click the Poetry Contest tab above, or go to https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit and select Guidelines at the “Poetry Contest” tab there
A few copies of the 2022 Winning Chapbook are still available
Jay Udall from Oakton, Virginia
Reach Beyond Reach
Now Available via Submittable, or order by mail!
For more information and a list of Honorable mentions and Finalists, click the Chapbook Contest tab in the menu above
****************************************
The 2024 Comstock Review Chapbook Contest
is now open for submissions!!!
Prize: $1000 plus publication and 50 author’s copies.
Judge: Abayomi Animashaun
Accepting submission from Aug 1st to Oct. 31st 2024 (postmark or online submission date).
- Entry Fee: $30/chapbook (includes copy of winning chapbook) plus Submittable fees
Important: The Guidelines for submission have changed. Be sure to read them carefully before submitting!
To see our updated submission guidelines, click the Chapbook Contest tab above, or go to https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit and select Guidelines at the “Poetry Contest” tab there
Winners of the 2023 MurielCraft Bailey Poetry Contest!
| Thank you to Judge Danusha Laméris 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California. |
First Prize: $1,000 (The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award)
Jodi Balas “Bone Density”
Second Prize: $250
David Thoreen “Maybe”
Third Prize: $100
David Thoreen “Even in Spring Our Thoughts Sometimes Lapse into Darkness”
Honorable Mentions:
Connie Post “Aftermath”
Davi Gray “In Which She Embarked Upon a Voyage”
Honorable Mentions receive a one-year subscription.
( for all the finalists from 2023 including Special Merit Winners,
go to the Poetry Contest tab)
****************************************
2023 Poetry contest winning poems,
honorable mentions and special merit winners all appear in
The Comstock Review Fall/Winter 2023 Issue,
Cover art: “House on Fire No. 1″ by Linda Schrank”
available now via Submittable
or
Send check or money order to
The Comstock Review / P.O. Box 205 / LaFayette NY 13084
****************************************
Recent Comstock Review Pushcart Nominees
2022:
Rebecca Brock, “Sometime In The Late Age of A Long Marriage”
Linda Neal Reising, “After Learning That a Woman And Her Baby Were Killed In The Bombing Of A Ukrainian Hospital”
Frank Dixon Graham, “Tractor”
Deborah Doolittle, “Elizabeth Bishop’s Fish”
Sharon Charde, “Things”
Judith M. Montgomery, “Mother’s Day At Aspen Ridge Assisted Living”
****************************************
****************************************
DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE, SO YOU DON’T MISS A THING!
SUBSCRIBERS KEEP US GOING -AND- SUPPORT OUR POETS
One year – $25 Two Years – $45 (2 issues per year)
You can use Submittable for ease of subscription,
or send a note and check or money order by mail to:
The Comstock Review / P.O. Box 205 / LaFayette NY 13084
IF SUBMITTING, SUBSCRIBING OR PURCHASING AN ISSUE OR CHAPBOOK ONLINE,
YOU CAN USE THE BUTTON ABOVE AND FOLLOW ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES .
****************************************
Did you know?
You can make a tax-deductible donation to support our work
Comstock Review, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit organization registered in the state of New York. Donations are tax-deductible.
Questions about submissions, subscriptions or donations can be emailed to poetry@comstockreview.org
****************************************
Comstock Review, Inc.
In the winter of 2019-2020 the editors of The Comstock Review decided to create a new organizational structure. Publication of The Comstock Review and all associated activities (including the poem and chapbook contests) were absorbed into Comstock Review, Inc., a newly formed 501c-3 non-profit organization. The Comstock Review, our flagship journal, continues to be produced by our seasoned editorial board, while day-to-day operations are carried out with the help and oversight of the Board of Directors of “CRInc.” Betsy Anderson, Managing Editor from is now also the Board President.
Stay tuned for updates to our website and other communication links!
SEE MORE ABOUT THESE CHANGES AND HOW YOU CAN HELP HERE
***************************
Dear Poets and Readers:
For a long time now, our contributors have watched as the price of publishing poetry slowly rises here and there. There is no way around it, publishing a journal costs money. Some publications are supported by institutions, large grants or with other sources of outside funding – funding that can come with a certain cost in editorial freedom.
The Comstock Review has always been able to cover most of its operating costs with subscriptions and contest monies. As with most publications, we charge for some things. We have to.
But we also realize that any charges, however small they may seem to some, require a degree of financial sacrifice. Not everyone can afford these things.
So, every January we offer a free reading. It is our way of saying thank you. Thank you for reading our publication. Thank you for supporting us in this nearly 40-year journey. Without you, we would not be here. This magazine has always been yours.
So, we thank you as well. Always. We won’t forget you.
Please. Submit. Let us see what you are doing these days. And let us know that you appreciate our poets. Read the issues, and subscribe when you can.
Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064631562091
****************************************
The Comstock Review Open Reading Period
accepts Submissions Jan 1 through Mar 31 annually
(No reading fee!) via Submittable and by mail.
To submit by mail send poems
to The Comstock Review, Att: Open Reading,
4956 St. John Drive, Syracuse, NY 13215.
OR Submit online via comstockreview.submittable.com
Important! Our submission guidelines have changed
– read them on Submittable OR
by clicking on the Open Reading tab on our website.
“Dandelion” by Kevin Morrow
THE COMSTOCK REVIEW
Spring / Summer 2023
Vol 37 Issue 1
Masthead (click here)
***************************************
Submit Online using the button below.
Even when submissions are closed, you can still subscribe to The Comstock Review,
buy single journal issues, and purchase chapbooks on our Submittable page.