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2010 NEW WOMEN’S VOICES

CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

A prize of $1,000 and publication for a chapbook-length poetry collection.
Open to women who have never before published a full-length poetry collection.
Previous chapbook publication does not disqualify.

International entries are welcome. Multiple submissions are accepted.

Leah Maines will final judge.


All entries will be considered for publication. The top-ten finalists will be offered publication.
Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter with a

$15 entry fee (pay by check, money order or pay online to pay using your credit card)

Deadline: Feb. 28, 2010 (DEADLINE EXTENDED) POSTMARK

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Leah Maines has served as the senior editor for Finishing Line Press since she took over the press in 2002. She has edited over 550 poetry collections, including several award-winning titles. She is former Poet-in-Residence of Northern Kentucky University (funded in part by the Kentucky Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities). Maines is the author of two poetry books. Her first book was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Williams Carlos Williams Book Award (Poetry Society of America). Looking to the East with Western Eyes, New Women's Voices Series, No. 1 (Finishing Line Press, 1998) reached #10 in the "Cincinnati/Tri-State Best Sellers List" (Cincinnati Enquirer), and is now in its fourth printing. Her most recent collection, Beyond the River, (KWC Press, 2002, 1st edition) won the Kentucky Writers' Coalition Poetry Chapbook Competition.

See our Feb. Book of the Month: Mistress, Reclining by Cherene Sherrard

WINNER OF THE 2009 NEW WOMEN'S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY

    
   

  1. Looking to the East With Western Eyes by Leah Maines

  2. Like the Air by Joyce Sidman  WINNER OF THE NEW WOMEN'S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY

  3. Mama Thoughts by Gayle Pierce THIS TITLE IS OUT OF PRINT

  4. The Time it Takes by Kathy Cantley Ackerman

  5. Drawing Lessons by Carol Barrett

  6. Girl in Garden by Sandra Graff

  7. Flower Half Blown by Cheryl Snell

  8. Path of Fire by Christa Polkinhorn Umiker

  9. Losing Ohio by Gwen Hart

  10. Secret Swing by Joyce Adams

  11. Bone China by Helen Mallon

  12. Moongate by Phyllis Berman

  13. Dance The Black-eyed Girl by Sherry Chandler

  14. After I Cut the Cord by Diana Sher

  15. Hineni by Bonnie Lyons THIS TITLE IS OUT OF PRINT

  16. Float by Laurie MacDiarmid

  17. This is Not a Story by Katrinka Moore WINNER OF THE NEW WOMEN'S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY

  18. Kinkeeper by Evelyn McAmis Bales

  19. Of A Feather by Janine DeBaise

  20. Faberge by Jacqueline Kolosov

  21. Wings Tha Wait by Sydna Altschuler Byrne  

  22. Failing Better by Catherine Wiley

  23. When All Else Falters by Patrice Wilson

  24. Sequel by Barbara Louise Ungar

  25. Happiness by Susan Hogan WINNER OF THE NEW WOMEN'S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY

  26. Waiting for Here by Ellen Rachlin

  27. The Grace of Light by Kathe Palka

  28. Ruin by Cassie Premo Steele

  29. The First Hundred Years by Ruth Holzer

  30. No Turning Back Now by Pat Riviere-Seel

  31. The Birds Are on Fire by Kay Sloan WINNER OF THE NEW WOMEN'S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY
  32. Left Standing by Ona Gritz
  33. Weed Over Flower by Jenny Sadre-Orafai
  34. The Love of Unreal Things by Christine Stewart-Nunez
  35. Arpeggio of Appetite by Morgan Grayce Willow
  36. dreamfish by Constance Alexander
  37. Passion Tour by Garnett Kilberg Cohen
  38. The Blessing Box by Maria Morrison WINNER OF THE STARTING GATE CHAPBOOK AWARD
  39. Bright Seeds by Kathryn T. S. Bass
  40. Body & Soul by Emily Ruth Hazel
  41. The Glow of Everyday Objects by Amie Keddy WINNER OF THE NEW WOMEN'S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY
  42. All the While by Catherine Hodges
  43. Larger Bodies Than Mine by Marianne Worthington Winner of the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association.
  44. Bipolar Express by Megan Webster
  45. Scarab Hiding by Susan Cowger
  46. Flame Above Flame by Teneice Delgado
  47. Cow Poetry: and other notes from the field by M. Frost
  48. Raccoon Afternoons by Linda M. Fischer
  49. Falling Dreams by Alison Hicks
  50. Archaeology: Twenty-One Poems by Alice Templeton WINNER OF THE NEW WOMEN'S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY
  51. Mementos by Pui Ying Wong
  52. Marriage and Other Infidelities by Debra Wierenga
  53. Pressing a Life Together by Hand by Estella Lauter
  54. Exposure by Edythe Haendel Schwartz

  55. Little Fires by Christina Lovin

  56. The Round Kiss by Betsey Houghton
  57. Muddy Prints, Water Shine by Carol Peters
  58. Dancer with Good Sow by Diane LeBlanc
  59. Between the Ceiling & the Moon by Deborah Gordon Cooper Winner of  Honorable Mention Prize in poetry Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards
  60. Difficult to Subdue as the Wind by Janet M. Powers
  61. Womb Rain by Shawn R. Jones ("On Bourbon Street" from this collection was featured in the March 2009 issue of ESSENCE Magazine.)

  62. Lanyards by Mary Beth Molloy

  63. American Desire by Patricia Brody
  64. Looking for Montrose Street by Carol Frith
  65. Proper Words for Birds by Margaret B. Ingraham
  66. Visionware by Caridad Moro-McCormick
  67. Water Signs by Katherine Durham Oldmixon
  68. Kaddish for Columbus by M. Miriam Herrera
  69. Acquiesce by Sarah M. Wells WINNER OF THE STARTING GATE CHAPBOOK AWARD

  70. Hawk Weather by Anna Ross WINNER OF THE NEW WOMEN'S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY; Winner of The Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award (NEPC)

  71. Time of Sand & Teeth by Gunilla Theander Kester
  72. Inchworm Season by Pauline Uchmanowicz

  73. The God of Small Losses: Haiku by Darla K. Crist

  74. Living on the Earth by Kathleen Kirk
  75. My Daphne Phase by Reeves Keyworth
  76. Mistress, Reclining by Cherene Sherrard WINNER OF THE NEW WOMEN'S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY