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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. 


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 

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!


N E X T     O  P  E  N     R  E  A  D  I  N  G     P  E  R  I  O  D    
(No reading fee)  Will be January 1 - March 15, 2010

Please note: We do not accept e-mail submissions!!! 
and we totally discourage simultaneous submissions.


Georgia A. Popoff is our Interim Managing Editor for 2009!

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: 
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Newest addtions are on-going!   Explore our more convenient 
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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) 


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
Click here for Honorable Mention & Special Merit
Chapbooks and Authors

2007: Jennifer Key, The Manifest Destiny of Desire

2005: 
J. F. Connolly, 
Among the Living

2003:  Sophie Wadsworth,  Letters from Siberia
(in second printing 2007)
 

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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