Virtual Poetry Reading

Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners 2020 to 2015

Hosted by J. C. Todd, our 2021 judge

Sunday October 17, 2021 – 2pm – Virtual

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09

Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 Passcode: 704102

Kyle Laws won in 2020 for The Sea Is Woman, author of Uncorseted, Ride the Pink Horse and Faces of Fishing Creek, she has 8 nominations for a Pushcart Prize. she directs Line/Circle: Women Poets in Performance.

Faith Paulsen was a runner up in 2020 for We Marry, We Bury, We Sing or We Weep. Her work has appeared in venues including Ghost City Press, Book of Matches, Panoply, Thimble, Evansville Review, and Mantis.

Kenneth Pobo won the 2019 contest for Book of Micah. He is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet, Uneven Steven, and Lavender Fire, Lavender Rose.

Emma Wynn was runner up in 2019 for Help Me to Fall. Her poetry has appeared in Sky Island, West Trade Review, The Raw Art Review, and Delmavra Review. She was a finalist for the Subvinean magazine 2021 poetry award.

Mbarek Styfi shared first prize in 2018 for The Trace of a Smile. Poet and translator, teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, his work has appeared in CELAAN Review, World Literature Today, Banipal, and many other journals.

Lisa Grunberger shared first prize in 2018 for i am dirty. She is also the author of Yiddish Yoga, Born Knowing, and her play, Almost Pregnant. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Hanging Loose Press, Crab Orchard Review.

Bevil Townsend was a runner-up in 2018 with One Hell of a Woman. She is a poet, feminist, and political junkie—sometimes in reverse order. She currently lives in Washington, DC and teaches storytelling to campaign activists.

George McDermott won the 2017 contest for Pictures, Some of Them Moving. He is a Philadelphia poet, who has been an English teacher, a speechwriter, and a screenwriter (those are not mutually exclusive, not even especially different).

Vernita Hall won the 2016 contest for Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians. She is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color.

Joe Roarty won our first chapbook contest in 2015 for Moritat, German for “street ballad”. Poetry of high-octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms.

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There’s still time for you to join this list of winners! Our annual chapbook contest is open for submissions until November 5th, 2021.

Submit to the 2021 Moonstone Poetry Chapbook Contest: deadline 11/5/2021