Jeff Burt Wins Sheila-Na-Gig online’s Winter Poetry Contest

Congratulations to Jeff Burt of Santa Cruz County, CA on winning Sheila-Na-Gig online’s Winter 2020 Poetry Contest! Jeff’s poems “Purity” and “Bean Creek” will appear in our Winter Issue, coming soon! Congratulations to other contest entrants whose work has been selected for this issue: Cortney Collins, Richard Hague, Babo Kamel, John Leonard, Tamara Madison, and Betsy Mars.

Our next regular submission deadline (free) and Spring Contest ($7.00 — opens Dec 1) deadline is Feb 1, 2021:

https://sheilanagigblog.com/submissions/

https://sheilanagigblog.com/contests/

In 2021 we will be offering two Chapbook prizes: $500 each and publication, July 1 deadline. See details: https://sheilanagigblog.com/sheila-na-gig-editions-poetry-manuscript-contest/

Many best wishes for the holidays!

Hayley

About Grimmgirl

I co-founded the small press poetry magazine Sheila-Na-Gig in California in 1990. I ran the press for 10 years, producing 14 print copies of the journal. I now hold a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. I am currently an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where I teach courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. My poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Brock Review, Proteus, Rattle, Spillway, and the critical anthologies, The Body in Medical Culture; On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs; and Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror.

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2 comments on “Jeff Burt Wins Sheila-Na-Gig online’s Winter Poetry Contest”

Betsy Mars
November 24, 2020

Looks like Tamara is missing? Thanks again! Can’t wait to read this issue. Happy Thanksgiving! Betsy

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 9:15 AM Sheila-Na-Gig online wrote:

> Grimmgirl posted: ” Congratulations to Jeff Burt of Santa Cruz County, CA > on winning Sheila-Na-Gig online’s Winter 2020 Poetry Contest! Jeff’s poems > “Purity” and “Bean Creek” will appear in our Winter Issue, coming soon! > Congratulations to other contest entrants whose wo” >

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Betsy Mars
November 24, 2020

Oh whoops! This is not the issue, just the announcement. I looked at the Fall issue. Never-ending!

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 9:15 AM Sheila-Na-Gig online wrote:

> Grimmgirl posted: ” Congratulations to Jeff Burt of Santa Cruz County, CA > on winning Sheila-Na-Gig online’s Winter 2020 Poetry Contest! Jeff’s poems > “Purity” and “Bean Creek” will appear in our Winter Issue, coming soon! > Congratulations to other contest entrants whose wo” >

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