Contests

 

2011 River Styx Founders Award
High School Poetry Contest

$150 First Prize

 

• No entry fee!
• Must be a high school student in the St. Louis bi-state metro area.
• Include student's name, address, and name of school on cover letter only.
• Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope; we will use it to notify you of results.
• Send up to five poems, each on a separate page.
• Winner invited to read at May River Styx Lit Feast.
• Entries must be postmarked by April 22.
• Judged by the River Styx editors.
• Send poems, postmarked no later than April 22, to:

  River Styx Founders Award
  3547 Olive Street, Suite 107
  St. Louis, MO 63103-1014

 

River Styx
2011 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.

2011 judge: B. H. Fairchild.
Winner published in Fall issue.
All poems will be considered for publication.

Postmark poems by May 31st to:

River Styx Poetry Contest
3547 Olive Street, Suite 107
St. Louis, MO 63103-1014

River Styx
2012 Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest

$1500 First Prize plus one case of micro-brewed Schlafly Beer

500 words maximum per story, up to three stories per entry.
$20 reading fee includes a one-year subscription
(3 issues).
Include name and address on cover letter only.
Entrants will be notified by S.A.S.E.
Winner published in Spring issue.
All stories will be considered for publication.

Postmark entries by December 31, 2011 to:

River Styx's Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest
3547 Olive Street, Suite 107
St. Louis MO 63103

 

 

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Contest Winners

 

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"

WINNERS OF THE 2010
River Styx International Poetry Contest

Thank you for submitting your work to the 2010 River Styx International Poetry Contest. Here are the 2010 results:

• 1st Place Stephen Gibson, "Megapixels"
• 2nd Place Diana Arterian, "The Albatross, Golden Mollymawk"
• 3rd Place Will Greenway, "Annunciation"
• Honorable Mention Susan Cohen, "Pantoum of The Blue Virgin"

2010 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