First Prize, $1,000
Jamie Ross of Carson, NM, for Alicia

Second Prize, $250
Judith Ferrara of Worcester, MA, for Elegy for a Plane Robber - Manila, 2000

Third Prize, $100
Diane LeBlanc of Northfield, MN, for Of Almost Believing

Honorable Mentions
Molly Sutton Kiefer of Red Wing, MN, for What She Brings from the Market
Diane LeBlanc of Northfield, MN, for Speaking of Weather
Karen Weyant of Warren, PA, for Landscape with Starving Deer

Editor’s Choice Award
Michael Boccardo of High Point, NC, for What the Police Report Will Miss

Honorable Mentions and Editor’s Choice receive subscriptions for Volume 27, 2013

Special Merit Recognition goes to:
Michael Boccardo of High Point, NC, for three poems:
Tusk,  Undertow,  and  Another Love Poem Disguised as an Orange
Mary Legato Brownell of Jenkintown, PA, for Addendum
Jennifer Elmore of Newburyport, MA, for Love Poem for a Tree
Teresa Gilman of Syracuse, NY, for Pitfall
Erica Goss of Los Gatos, CA, for What Would You Give
Carrie Heimer of Fairbanks, AK, for Afterthought
Catherine Johnson of Granite Bay, CA, for "II"
Janet Joyner of Winston-Salem, NC, for The Word Arrives
Kathleen Kirk of Normal, IL, for Making It Personal
Rebecca Lauren of Philadelphia, PA, for Eager as Hell
Debra Marquart of Ames, IA, for Oud
Connie Post, of Livermore, CA, for Four Miles from the Center of Town
Marilee Richards of Sedona, AZ, for The Fine Print (a Translation)
Jenna Rindo of Pickett, WI, for How to make paper
at home using readily available equipment and materials
Jamie Ross of Carson, NM, for two poems:
Cafe in the Rain, with a Print on the Wall   and  Amphibian, Going South
Catherine Strisik of San Cristobal, NM, for Angst
Gary Thomas of Turlock, CA, for Arrayed Like These
Jeanne Wagner of Kensington, CA, for two poems:
For My Mother Who Always Undressed in the Closet at Night
and Ophelia Drowning in the Suburbs
Diana Woodcock of Midlothian, VA, for Keeping Me on My Toes

All poems are screened by the Comstock Review Editors. Editors and Final Judge do not know the poets’ names until winners are selected. This year’s Honorable Mention poems were selected by Dorianne Laux.

The Comstock Writers' Group Editors are pleased to announce our
 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest Winner 2011
(Prize: $1,000 and Fifty Copies of the Winning Chapbook)

Lucinda Grey of Charlotte, NC
The Blue Hills: Poems After the Life of Maud Gonne

Chapbook will be mailed out, bulk mail, the week of April 8th.
If you were a contestant and have moved, please let us know immediately. 

Please click here for all the chapbooks honored chapbooks for 2011.
All contestants will receive a copy of the winning chapbook upon publication. Please keep your address current with us.

Click here for previous chapbook winners and special merit honors.