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HELEN STEWART POETRY AWARD

Helen Stewart Poetry Award

The Helen Stewart Poetry Award is an annual contest for local poets of the state of Nevada. The award is named in honor of the magazine’s namesake and the First Lady of Las Vegas, Helen Stewart.

Poems are judged by a selected poetry judge who is not on staff at the magazine. The judge for our contest is Lauren Camp.  Lauren Camp is the author of four poetry collections. Her poems appear in The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Slice, New England Review, DIAGRAM, The Cortland Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Dorset Prize, fellowships from Black Earth Institute and The Taft-Nicholson Center, and a finalist citation for the Arab American Book Award, among other honors. Her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish and Arabic.

All poems submitted for the contest are reviewed by staff and considered for publication in our issues.

1st prize: $100
2nd prize: $50
3rd prize: $25

All winning poems are now published in our annual Issue in the Fall.

DEADLINE: June 1, 2020.

​Nevada residents may submit here.


Previous Winners

4th Annual 2019

1st Place | Poem for my vanished twin | Claire Dockery 
2nd Place | Martha's Poem | Courtney Cliften
3rd Place | Marilyn swims at Frank Sinatra’s Cal-Neva Resort a week before her death​ | Gayle Brandeis​
3rd Annual 2018

1st Place | Continuum | Jennifer Battisti 
2nd Place | My Dad at Sixty, Sixty Years Ago | George Perreault 
3rd Place | Sunrise Strip | Joan Robinson​
2nd Annual 2017

1st Place : | Home Means Nevada | Angela M. Brommel 
2nd Place : | A Self | A.R. Martin 
3rd Place : | Meditations on Love in a Time of Fear | Autumn Widdoes
1st Annual 2016

1st Place : Ecotone | Christine Bettis 
2nd Place : Arrhythmimic | Lana Hanson
3rd Place : Next, Is | Miranda Cooper

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