Poetry contest open to all youth, 18 years old and younger! Submit up to three poems (each 50 lines or shorter) to sally@rockfordwritersguild.org or use our online submission form at www.rockfordwritersguild.org. Winners of 13-18 and 12 and Under age categories will win $25 each and be published in The Rockford Review.

Olivia Diamond invites you to explore her redesigned website https://mountainofdreamsbooks.com where you can find the complete collection of her and her husband’s books to satisfy diverse reading tastes.

RWG members:
April 15 deadline — Summer-Fall Members’ Only edition of The Rockford Review, poems and prose, no theme, see submission guidelines on our website www.rockfordwritersguild.org

April 15 deadline — Prose contest, theme “Reckonings” see submission guidelines for prose

May 15 deadline — Rockford Review Youth Poetry contest, ages 18 and under

Rockford Writers’ Guild thanks the authors who participated in our New Year, New Reads book giveaway! Thank you for your generosity in sending your books at your expense to the individual winners! Your efforts were’are greatly appreciated.

Rockford Review Youth Poetry Award:
Deadline: May 15, 2021. Ages: up to 18. Submit up to three new, previously unpublished poems (50 lines or less). Include name, age, address, phone number, email address in upper right-hand corner of a Word document. Winners in two age categories: 13-18 and 12 and under. Cash prize of $25 in each age category and the two winning poems will be published in the 2021 Summer-Fall edition of The Rockford Review. No theme. Simultaneous submissions are fine, as long as you notify us if any or all of your submissions have been accepted elsewhere. Please include your bio, 50 words or less. Notification by June 1, 2021. Submit online at: www.rockfordwritersguild.org or send to: sally@rockfordwritersguild.org.

Please encourage your kids or grandkids to enter the contest.

Summer “Alignment” Poetry Contest (Members Only)
Submit up to three new, previously unpublished poems (50 lines or less). Theme is Alignment. The deadline is March 15, 2021. Winning entries published in The Rockford Review, Summer-Fall edition, 2021. Winners announced in the May 2021 newsletter. Submit via online form or via email to: sally@rockfordwritersguild.org.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Rockford Writers’ Guild!

If you would like extra copies of the upcoming W-S edition of The Rockford Review, please let me know by December 22. I’ll be ordering books shortly after that date. sally@rockfordwritersguild.org

Congratulations to Rockford Writers’ Guild members Christine Swanberg and Jocelyn Kuntz, winners of the poet laureate and youth poet laureate competition in Rockford. https://www.rrstar.com/news/20201026/rockford-names-its-first-ever-poet-laureate-and-youth-poet-laureate

Check out our new Facebook design, courtesy of RWG member Travis Morgan. Click on the Facebook icon on our homepage. Also, we have two deadlines on October 15: our “Spring Melt” prose contest and our regular The Rockford Review deadline, no theme, poetry and prose. Click on Submission Guidelines above. The Rockford Review Youth Poetry Award contest deadline is November 1. See our September newsletter (click on Newsletters above) for more information.