Poetry Contest



$500 First - $200 Second - $100 Third Prizes
and publication in the Common Ground Review


It's our fourteenth annual poetry contest! First prize is $500, second prize $200, and third prize $100 as well as publication in CGR. We will also publish Honorable Mentions. Send 1-3 poems under 61 lines, SASE and a $15 check made out to Western New England University. Make sure to write Common Ground Review Contest in the memo section of the check by March 1.


The judge for this year's poetry contest is Iain Haley Pollock


Please mail submissions to:


Janet Bowdan, Editor
Common Ground Review
H-5132
Western New England University
1215 Wilbraham Rd.
Springfield, MA 01119


Please include contact information (name, address, email and phone number) on a cover sheet with a list of poem titles, but not on the poems themselves.



No simultaneous submissions.



Enclose SASE for a list of winners and honorable mentions (Honorable mentions will be published)


Deadline is March 1, 2013