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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. 


SPECIAL NOTICES
Editors are still making decisions on poems sent during
January-March of this year.  Please be patient as we finalize choices for 2010.  Letters are going out during August 2010.

The mailing for the Awards edition (23:2) due out for Fall/Winter 2009 has gone out as of August 10, 2010.  It is mailed Bulk Mail, forwarding services requested.  We thank you for your patience.

There is NO Chapbook contest for 2010.  We hold it every two years and expect rules and details for 2011.


The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST 2010
IS CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS.  CR editors are busy scoring for the

Final Judge: Charles Martin. 
We hope for winners' announcements by October 1, 2010.


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

2009 JESSIE BRYCE NILES
CHAPBOOK CONTEST WINNER

as selected by Kathleen Bryce Niles, Final Judge

Lynne Martin Bowman from Greensboro, NC 

W a t e r     N e v e r    S l e e p s 

Publication and distribution to contributors
expected in Fall 2010. 
Next contest expected August 1-September 30, 2011.

HONORABLE MENTIONS
(in alphabetic order)
Sally Albiso, Port Angeles, WA - Last Words
Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Kalamazoo, MI - Rib
Susan Jo Russell, Somerville, MA - Southern Girl
Rosemary R. Royston, Blairsville, GA - Two Minutes Shy
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Ithaca, NY - Wild Margin

Please click here to see all the Special Merit Chapbooks for 2009!


O  P  E  N     R  E  A  D  I  N  G     P  E  R  I  O  D  
IS CLOSED FOR 2010   

(No reading fee)  Will be January 1 - March 15, 2011

Please note: We do not accept e-mail submissions!!! 
and in 2011 we will not be accepting simultaneous submissions.


Georgia A. Popoff is our Managing Editor for 2010.

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



Muriel Craft Bailey Contest Winners for 2009
Maxine Kumin, Judge

FIRST PRIZE The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
($1,000)
Jeanne Emmons from McCook Lake, SD,   "Termites: The Covenant"

SECOND PRIZE: ($250)
Robert Carl Williams
from Pittsfield, VT,
"Allegory"

THIRD PRIZE: ($100)
Mary Legato Brownell
from Jenkintown, PA, "Eve"

Click here for Honorable Mentions and Special Merit poets.


Visit LINKS added to regularly !!  
Click here for general information: 
Link Page.
Click here for Book Reviews of all types. 
Comstock Review Poets: 
Reviews and Links to their work:
CR Poets.
Newest addtions are on-going!   Explore our more convenient 
A-Z format with shorter download time!


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 temporarily suspended while Jennifer MacPherson recovers from a stroke suffered in February 2010.


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!!  


Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest Winners
as selected by Kathleen Bryce Niles, Final Judge

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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