2021 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Contests Winners!

The winners of the 2021 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival broadside, libretto, chapbook and book contests have been announced:

Broadside Contest People's Choice Winners: 1st - Evelyn Lane, 2nd - Megha Sood, 3rd - Stephanie Logan 

Broadside Contest Judge's Choice Winners: 1st - Lorelei Kay, 2nd - Thom Garzone, 3rd - Gregory Foster, 4th - Jeffry Michael Jensen, 5th - Tim Tipton, 6th - Radomir Vojtech Luza

Winning broadside poems will be published on the festival website (http://2021sgvpf.blogspot.com) 

Poetic Libretto Winners: 1st - Mark Fisher, Lorelei Kay, Stephanie Logan, Dean Okamura, Corrine Marie Rodriguez-Ramirez

All five winners will have their poetic librettos published by Bobby John Press (http://bobbyjohnpress.blogspot.com)

Chapbook Contest Winners: 1st - Carl Stilwell, 2nd - Corrine Marie Rodriguez-Ramirez, 3rd - Kenneth Irving Scott Jr., 4th - Crystal Lane Swift

All four chapbook contest winners will have their chapbooks published by Four Feathers Press (http://fourfeatherspress.blogspot.com)

Book Contest Winners: 1st - Radomir Vojtech Luza, 2nd - Joshua Corwin, 3rd - Corrine Marie Rodriguez-Ramirez, 4th - R A Ruadh

Radomir's book "Losing Me" will be published by Spectrum Publishing (http://spectrumpublishing.blogspot.com)

2021 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Contests Entrants

The winners, that's right, winners of the 2021 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Slam are James Coats and Sharon Smith-Knight! We did a tiebreaker, and we still couldn't decide!

Broadside Contest Winner: 23 poems entered, see website (http://2021sgvpf.blogspot.com) to vote for poems by commenting on them before the deadline of 11:59pm PST, April 22nd. Winner will be announced on April 24th at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry BIG WINNERS zoom reading

Poetic Libretto Contest Winner: 5 poetic librettos entered, winner will be announced on April 24th at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry BIG WINNERS zoom reading

Chapbook Contest Winner: 13 chapbooks entered, four winners will be announced on April 24th at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry BIG WINNERS zoom reading

Book Contest Winner: 8 books entered, winner will be announced on April 24th at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry BIG WINNERS zoom reading

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Book contest entrants: Corrine Marie Rodriguez-Ramirez, Joshua Corwin, Rick Leddy, Mark Fisher, Jeffry Michael Jensen, Kenneth Irving Scott Jr., Radomir Vojtech Luza, R A Ruadh

Chapbook contest entrants: Crystal Lane Swift, Corrine Marie Rodriguez-Ramirez, JJ Stick, R A Ruadh, Kristian Kidd, Lori Holloway, Shih-Fang Wang, Mark Fisher, William P. Cushing, Kenneth Irving Scott Jr., Carl Stilwell, Ranney Campbell, Radomir Vojtech Luza

Poetic Libretto contest entrants: Corrine Marie Rodriguez-Ramirez, Mark Fisher, Lorelei Kay, Stephanie Logan, Dean Okamura

Broadside contest entrants (not in contest order): Dean Okamura, Mark Fisher, Jack G. Bowman, Lori Holloway, Tim Tipton, JJ Stick, Lorelei Kay, Jordan Sandoval, Luis Villalobos, Shih-Fang Wang, Corrine Marie Rodriguez-Ramirez, Gregory Foster, Radomir Vojtech Luza, Evelyn Lane, Innocent Alifa, Megha Sood, Stephanie Logan, Thom Garzone, Dan Garcia-Black, Jeffry Michael Jensen, Crystal Lane Swift, Kristian Kidd, Eric Lopez

Poetry Contests!!!!

...FOR THE 2021 SAN GABRIEL VALLEY POETRY FESTIVAL!

Celebrating National Poetry Month, sponsored by Spectrum Publishing (http://spectrumpublishing.blogspot.com), Four Feathers Press (http://fourfeatherspress.blogspot.com), and Bobby John Press* (http://bobbyjohnpress.blogspot.com)

Broadside Contest: submit one poem up to 50 lines in length by April 10th to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com. Winner will be published online on the festival website and invited to perform their poem on April 24th at the festival Zoom meeting.

*Libretto Contest: submit a manuscript of 2 to 9 poems totaling no more than 450 lines in length by April 10th to dorseypoeticproductions@hotmail.com. Winner will be published in a Bobby John Press e-libretto and be invited to perform two poems on April 24th at the festival Zoom meeting.

Chapbook Contest: submit a manuscript of 10 to 20 poems totaling no more than 1000 lines in length by April 10th to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com. Winner will be published in print by Four Feathers Press (25 saddle-stapled copies) and be invited to perform three poems on April 24th at the festival Zoom meeting.

Book Contest: submit a manuscript of 25 to 40 poems totaling no more than 2500 lines in length by April 10th to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com. Winner will be published in print by Spectrum Publishing (25 perfect-bound copies) and be invited to perform five poems on April 24th at the festival Zoom meeting.