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 Contests
River Styx
2012 International Poetry Contest
$1500 First Prize
- 2012 judge is A. E. Stallings.
- $20 reading fee includes a one-year subscription (3 issues).
- Send up to three poems, no more than 14 pages.
- Include name and address on cover letter only.
- Include S.A.S.E. for notification of contest results (to be mailed out in September).
- Winner published in Fall issue.
- All poems will be considered for publication.
- Previously published poems, including those that have appeared on web sites, blogs, and personal home pages, will not be considered.
Postmark entries by May 31, 2012 to:
River Styx International Poetry Contest
3547 Olive Street, Suite 107
St. Louis MO 63103
River Styx 2012 Founders Award High School Poetry Contest
$150 First Prize
- No entry fee.
- All current high school students from the bi-state area are eligible.
- Submit up to five poems per entry.
- Include a cover letter with contact information, school, and poem titles.
Contact information should not appear elsewhere on the submission.
- Include self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) for notification of contest results.
- Winner is invited to read the winning poem at the River Styx Literary Feast on May 7.
Postmark entries by April 13, 2012 to:
River Styx Founders Award Contest
3547 Olive Street, Suite 107
St. Louis MO 63103
Contest Winners
Winners of the 2011
River Styx International Poetry Contest
Thank you for submitting your work to the 2011 River Styx International Poetry Contest. Here are the 2011 results:
- 1st Place Stephen Kampa, "Small Change"
- 2nd Place Tara Taylor, "Sea Glass"
- 3rd Place Julie Hall, "Octopus"
Honorable Mentions (In alphabetical order)
George Bilgere, "Darkly Shifting Flux"
Gary Fincke, "The Mailed Girl"
Lauren Henley, "Revenge"
Julie L. Moore, "Comet"
Travis Mossotti, "Trends Motel, Ellisville, MO"
Hannah Trintje Jansen "Grief Lesson at Coney Island"
Winners of the Fifth Annual (2011) Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest
Thank you for submitting your work to the Fifth Annual River Styx Schlafly Micro-Fiction Micro-Brew Contest. We received over 500 submissions this year. Of those, our editorial panel selected twenty finalists, and then selected the winners. We thought the overall quality of manuscripts was exceptionally high. Here are the results:
- 1st Place Katie Cortese, "Thrill Ride"
- 2nd Place Laura Kate Resnik, "Ms. Muffet"
- 3rd Place Allison Alsup, "Pioneers"
Honorable Mentions
Jeanne Emmons, "Vinyl"
Kim Henderson, "Girls"
Thomas Israel Hopkins, "When the Immigrant Is Hot"
Hugh Martin, "Three Months Before We Ship to Iraq"
Francine Witte, "Husband Weight"
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