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01/01/2025

FREE OPEN READING BEGINS TODAY!! 1/1/25

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12/06/2024

Better Late then Never - our Pushcart nominations

10/31/2024

Poets and presses supporting the recovery efforts in western North Carolina.

10/02/2024

EVERY CHAPBOOK CONTEST ENTRANT RECIEVES A FREE COPY OF THE WINNING BOOK
ENDS OCT 31
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09/18/2024

‘Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.’ – Truman Capote
Begin your next chapter with us.
THE COMSTOCK REVIEW CHAPBOOK CONTEST
OPEN UNTIL HALLOWE'EN

The Comstock Review has been publishing poetry since 1986 and each year runs an annual poetry contest plus a chapbook contest.

08/27/2024

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie

08/16/2024

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato
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07/23/2024

The Comstock Review Chapbook contest
OPENS TODAY!!!

Be part of our history.

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The Comstock Review has been publishing poetry since 1986 and each year runs an annual poetry contest plus a chapbook contest.

07/13/2024

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/business/postage-rate-increase/index.html

On Sunday, the cost of a stamp is going up for the second time this year, jumping 5 cents for first class postage to 73 cents. You probably didn’t notice.

07/10/2024

POETRY CONTEST - ENDS JULY 15

Is your poem the one we’re looking for?
Your best, brightest and most beautiful poems deserve to shine brightly!

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2024 Final Judge Charles Rafferty
Be sure to read our guidelines first!
(Remember - no names on the poem pages!)
SUBMIT through Submittable.com ($25 for up to 5 poems plus small Submittable fee)
at https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit
OR mail your poems (no names on pages of poems)
and check or money order to
The Comstock Review
4956 St. John Drive
Syracuse, NY 13215

The Comstock Review has been publishing poetry since 1986 and each year runs an annual poetry contest plus a chapbook contest.

06/06/2024

"HOUSE ON FIRE #1" BY LINDA SCHRANK
IN STOCK AVAILABLE by Popular Demand!

Comstock Review is an independent poetry journal publishing since 1986

04/16/2024

Our 2023 Chapbook winner with her winnings!
Robin Michel "Things will be Better in Bountiful."
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04/04/2024

PLEASE remember us when it is CONTEST time (which is NOW). Running a magazine is not free. Had to say that.
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04/01/2024

THE OPEN READING IS CLOSED WITH A RECORD-SHATTERING 821 POETS SUBMITTING.

MURIEL CRAFT BAILEY CONTEST OPENS TODAY!!

03/30/2024

MURIEL CRAFT BAILEY POETRY CONTEST OPENS APRIL 1ST -
DEADLINE JULY 15TH

JUDGE: Charles Rafferty

Entry: $25 plus Submittable fee for up to 5 poems
1st Prize: $1000; 2nd Prize: $250; 3rd Prize $100.

Entries are screened anonymously by our editors; 25 finalist poems are read by the Judge.
- All finalists are printed in the Fall/Winter Awards issue.

You can purchase a copy of the 2023 awards issue on Submittable

Coming in August:

THE COMSTOCK REVIEW CHAPBOOK CONTEST WILL OPEN AUGUST 1ST - DEADLINE OCT 31
JUDGE: Abayomi Animashaun

Entry : $30 plus Submittable fee
$1000. plus 50 copies of your book - no selling.

Every entrant gets a copy of the VERY SAME BOOK. (Read: Exposure!!)

PUBLICATION, DESIGN, AND DELIVERY OF THE WINNING BOOK BY APRIL 2025.
We work WITH you every step of the way to design the book you want.

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