Sunday, November 15 at 1 pm (CST)
2020 Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest Winners reading their sonnets on Zoom.
Please join us for an afternoon of poetry!
Linda Wallin © 2017
On Sunday, November 15, beginning at 1 p.m. CST (remember to set your clocks back), winners from the 2020 Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest will be reading their winning sonnets on Zoom.
Winners from both the traditional sonnet division and the modern sonnet division are invited to read their work. In addition, there will be a short talk afterwards by Wilda Morris, Workshop Chair of Poets & Patrons of Chicago, on “What Is a Modern Sonnet?”
Please Email Contest Chair Kate Hutchinson at kate28.hutchinson@gmail.com for Zoom link.
The 2020 Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest
2020 SONNET CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Category #1: Traditional Sonnet, Judge: Marilyn Taylor
1st Place: Catherine Hiller, NY – “The Senses”
2nd Place: Michael Stalcup, Bangkok, Thailand – “The Cross and the Lynching Tree”
3rd Place: Bill Lythgoe, Shevington, U. K. – “God Moves in a Mysterious Way”
1st Honorable Mention: Katherine Quevedo, OR – “Kintsugi Master Pieces”
2nd Honorable Mention: Jean L. Kreiling, MA – “What Remains”
3rd Honorable Mention: Jeff Santosuosso, FL – “Greyhounds”
Special Recognition:
1st Special Merit: Barbara Blanks, TX – “Who Needs New England October When”
2nd Special Merit: John Steele, CO – “Sitting Mountain”
3rd Special Merit: Jonathan Pratt, Ontario, Canada – “The Storyteller and the Rose”
Category #2: Modern Sonnet, Judge: Justen Ahren
1st Place: Rebecca Bratten Weiss, OH – “Exile”
2nd Place: Don Hogle, NY – “Figures for an Urn”
3rd Place: L. Rose Reed, CO – “Sonnet for an Octopodal Paramour”
1st Honorable Mention: Mary Elder Jacobsen, VT – “How to Grow a Sonnet”
2nd Honorable Mention: Veronica Brush, CO – “Mark Not Me”
3rd Honorable Mention: Sonnet A. Medrano, TX – “Scene from a Silent Film”
Special Recognition:
1st Special Merit: Maya Levine, CA – “I Can’t Breathe”
2nd Special Merit: Angelica Esquivel, MI – “I Draw an Oil Pastel Portrait of Yayoi Kusama”
3rd Special Merit: Anastasia Jill, FL – “Jesus as the Lesbian I Met at Omegle”
Contest Categories & Rules
Categories:
#1 Traditional Sonnet – Shakespearean or Petrarchan
#2 Modern Sonnet (see rules for a definition of a Modern Sonnet)
Open to All. Free. You may enter both Category #1 and Category #2, if you wish, but only one poem in each category. The entries must be original and unpublished. Poets can only win in one category.
Contest Prizes
Prizes for both categories: First Prize: $50. Second Prize: $35. Third Prize: $15.
Three Honorable Mentions, Unranked.
No judges are affiliated with Poets & Patrons. All judges' decisions are final.
There is no fee. Winners will be notified by late October, 2020. The poet keeps all rights. No entries will be returned. A list of winners will be posted on the Poets & Patrons website, www.poetsandpatrons/contest-winners.net
Rules do not change from year to year, but the chairperson may, so be sure to check the rules:
Click to view a complete list of rules & details (Word) ➞
Click to view a complete list of rules & details (PDF) ➞
Two ways to enter:
1) E-mail your poems (preferred method)
2) Send by U.S. Mail.