2018 chapbook call for submissions
THEME: Hunger and Yearning
Hunger denied and yearning fulfilled. Dreams dashed and wants satisfied. What do your mind, soul, and body ache for? What is your deepest desire? Have you found it, or do you still long for it? Download the guidelines and send your entry by Oct. 15, 2017. Chapbook contest open to WyoPoets members. Not a member? Join us!
Hunger denied and yearning fulfilled. Dreams dashed and wants satisfied. What do your mind, soul, and body ache for? What is your deepest desire? Have you found it, or do you still long for it? Download the guidelines and send your entry by Oct. 15, 2017. Chapbook contest open to WyoPoets members. Not a member? Join us!
Congratulations to 2017 WYOPOETS MEMBERS-ONLY CONTEST winners
First Place:
Carol Deering – Stopping at Louis Lake
2nd Place:
Lynn Carlson – Wyoming Ramble
3rd Place:
Robert Druchniak – Nail
Honorable Mentions:
Gail Denham – Careless Lifetime
Emory D. Jones – Spring Mourning
Lynn Carlson – Cold Snap
Susan Mark – To Grow Fat Writing Poetry
Carol Deering – Stopping at Louis Lake
2nd Place:
Lynn Carlson – Wyoming Ramble
3rd Place:
Robert Druchniak – Nail
Honorable Mentions:
Gail Denham – Careless Lifetime
Emory D. Jones – Spring Mourning
Lynn Carlson – Cold Snap
Susan Mark – To Grow Fat Writing Poetry
2017 Eugene V. Shea National Poetry Contest winners
The 2017 WyoPoets Eugene V. Shea National Poetry Contest received 308 poems entered by 69 poets, so our contest judge, John Calderazzo, had much fine work to choose from. The top poems selected are:
1st Place: "Caskets" by Eileen Malone, Broadmoor Village, CA
Displays beautiful economy of phrasing and strong emotions that never pitch over into what could be sentimentality about death. Well done!
2nd Place: "Rain on Craters of the Moon" by Betsy Bernfeld, Wilson, WY
Driven by strong and original imagery that evokes the power and danger and beauty of nature.
3rd Place: "Decent/Descent" by Nick Sweet, Shepherd, TX
Uses rhyme quite naturally and effectively to tell a powerful story of friendship, memory, and almost-redemption.
4th Place: "Gone" by Myra Peak, Green River, WY
Had me from the microscopic precision of its first line. Then, through one beautifully rendered image after another, it builds to an emotionally devastating conclusion. Here's a poem that wastes NO words.
Honorable mentions
The winning poets have been invited to publish their poems in our spring newsletter that will be sent out in April.
1st Place: "Caskets" by Eileen Malone, Broadmoor Village, CA
Displays beautiful economy of phrasing and strong emotions that never pitch over into what could be sentimentality about death. Well done!
2nd Place: "Rain on Craters of the Moon" by Betsy Bernfeld, Wilson, WY
Driven by strong and original imagery that evokes the power and danger and beauty of nature.
3rd Place: "Decent/Descent" by Nick Sweet, Shepherd, TX
Uses rhyme quite naturally and effectively to tell a powerful story of friendship, memory, and almost-redemption.
4th Place: "Gone" by Myra Peak, Green River, WY
Had me from the microscopic precision of its first line. Then, through one beautifully rendered image after another, it builds to an emotionally devastating conclusion. Here's a poem that wastes NO words.
Honorable mentions
- 1st: "Gravity" by Betsy Bernfeld, Wilson, WY
- 2nd: "No Rescue from Drowning" by Myra Peak, Green River, WY
- 3rd: "Sexed on a Kona Balcony" by Ellaraine Lockie, Sunnyvale, CA
- 4th: "Le Salles-du-Gardon" by Katharyn Howd Machan, Ithaca NY
- 5th: "When the Moose Come to Town" by Betsy Bernfeld, Wilson, WY
The winning poets have been invited to publish their poems in our spring newsletter that will be sent out in April.
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Our 2017 Contest Judge
John Calderazzo is English Professor, Emeritus, at CSU, where he taught in MFA Creative Writing program and won the university's top teaching awards. His poems, stories and essays have appeared in Georgia Review, North American Review, Orion, Audubon, High Country News, and hundreds of other venues. He's the recipient of a Colorado Council for the Arts literary fellowship, the Carolina Quarterly Fiction Prize, and a recent Solas Gold Medal in travel adventure writing. His most recent book is Rising Fire: Volcanoes & Our Inner Lives, and he presently uses story telling techniques to help scientists and scholars communicate their work to the public and decision makers. |
2016 EUGENE V. SHEA NATIONAL POETRY CONTEST WINNERS
- 1st Place: "10 Years After Katrina" by Mary Jo Maguire, Englewood, CO
- 2nd Place: "George Faulkner, Dying at Daysboro" by Sandra Lake Lassen, West Jefferson, NC
- 3rd Place: "Breaking Point" by Barb Blanks, Garland, TX
- 4th Place: "Enjambment" by Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Lexington, MA
Honorable Mentions
Honorable mentions are in no particular order
- "Inheritance" by Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Lexington, MA
- "John Walters" by Jerri Hardesty, Brierfield, AL
- "King of Barnhill" by Barbara Brannon, Lubbuck, TX
- "How to Lose Your Mind" by Cathy Moran, Little Rock, AR
- "A Rumor of Coyotes" by Christina Kamnikar, Cheyenne, WY
2015 Eugene V. Shea National Poetry Contest Winners
2015 Members-only contest winners
