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. Our judge for our upcoming contest in 2019 is Anna Leahy. She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chapman University, where she edits the international poetry journal TAB and curates the Tabula Poetica reading series.
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, 2019.
Submit here.
Poems are judged by a selected poetry judge who is not on staff at the magazine. Our judge for our upcoming contest in 2019 is Anna Leahy. She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chapman University, where she edits the international poetry journal TAB and curates the Tabula Poetica reading series.
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, 2019.
Submit here.
Previous Winners
3rd Annual, April 2018
1st Place | Continuum | Jennifer Battisti
2nd Place | My Dad at Sixty, Sixty Years Ago | George Perreault
3rd Place | Sunrise Strip | Joan Robinson
1st Place | Continuum | Jennifer Battisti
2nd Place | My Dad at Sixty, Sixty Years Ago | George Perreault
3rd Place | Sunrise Strip | Joan Robinson
2nd Annual, April 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 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, April 2016
1st Place : Ecotone | Christine Bettis
2nd Place : Arrhythmimic | Lana Hanson
3rd Place : Next, Is | Miranda Cooper
1st Place : Ecotone | Christine Bettis
2nd Place : Arrhythmimic | Lana Hanson
3rd Place : Next, Is | Miranda Cooper