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 Contests
River Styx
presents
The Founders Award
Original Poetry Contest
for St. Louis Area High School Students
Winner will receive $150 and the opportunity to participate in a public reading at River Styx's Annual Literary Feast and Fundraiser on May 3 at Duff's in the Central West End.
Submissions should be mailed to:
River Styx Founders Award
3547 Olive Street, Suite 107
St. Louis MO 63103
Deadline to receieve submissions is April 23, 2010.
Entrants may include up to five original poems on separate pieces of paper. Poems should be titled and should not include the student's name on the poem itself. On a separate cover sheet, please include student poet's name and title(s) of submissions, the poet's age, grade, school, address, phone number, and e-mail.
Winners will be announced in the last week of April.
River Styx
2010 International Poetry Contest
$1500 First Prize
Send up to three poems, not more than 14 pages.
All entrants will be notified by S.A.S.E.
$20 reading fee includes a one-year subscription (3 issues).
Include name and address on cover letter only.
2010 judge: Maxine Kumin.
Winner published in Fall issue.
All poems will be considered for publication.
Postmark poems by May 31st to:
River Styx Poetry Contest
3527 Olive Street, Suite 107
St. Louis, MO 63103-1014
Winners of the Fourth Annual Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest
Thank you for submitting your work to the Fourth 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 Christopher Maggio, "Exclamatory Statements"
- 2nd Place Katey Schultz, "Grimshaw on the Ice"
- 3rd Place Jessica McCann, "Night Window"
Honorable Mentions
Emily Lowery, "A Life in Numbers"
Kim Henderson, "Renovations," and "The Carousel"
Nathan Alling Long, "Flies"
Fred Venturini, "Rust"
Jose David Gonzalez, "Wigs"
River Styx Founder's Award
Poetry Contest for St. Louis Area High School Students
- 1st Place:
Ben Constantino, St. Louis Priory School and Lauren Fields, Crossroads College Preparatory School
- Honorable Mentions:
Benjamin Layton Corely, Priory
Luke D. Slabaugh, Priory
Ryan Bry, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
WINNERS OF THE 2009
River Styx International Poetry Contest
Thank you for submitting your work to the 2009 River Styx International Poetry Contest. Here are the 2009 results:
- 1st Place Michael Hudson, "Drunk in Bed with an Old Book about the History of Human Flight"
- 2nd Place Michael J. Grabell, "Before Committing"
- 3rd PlaceJ. Stephen Rhodes, "My Cathedral"
- Honorable Mentions
Matthew Fluharty, "The First"
Don Colburn, "In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing"
Leonard Kress, "Harmonium"
Stephen Gibson, "Duomo and Baptistery, Florence"
Elizabeth Kirschner, "The Collector’s Favorite Doll"
Travis Mossotti, "Inside the Skull"
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