River Styx Founders Award
High School Poetry Contest

$150 First Prize

  • No entry fee!
  • Must be a high school student in the St. Louis bi-state metro area.
  • Include student’s name, address, and name of school on cover letter only.
  • Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope—we will use it to notify you of results.
  • Send up to five poems, each on a separate page.
  • Winner invited to read at May River Styx Lit Feast.
  • Entries must be postmarked by April 22.
  • Judged by the River Styx editors.
  • Send poems, postmarked no later than April 22, to:

    River Styx Founders Award
    3547 Olive Street, Suite 107
    St. Louis, MO 63103-1014

River Styx
2011 International Poetry Contest

$1500 First Prize

Send up to three poems, not more than 14 pages.
All entrants will be notified by S.A.S.E.
$20 reading fee includes a one-year subscription (3 issues).
Include name and address on cover letter only.

2011 judge: B. H. Fairchild.
Winner published in Fall issue.
All poems will be considered for publication.

Postmark poems by May 31st to:

River Styx Poetry Contest
3547 Olive Street, Suite 107
St. Louis, MO 63103-1014

River Styx
2012 Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest

$1500 First Prize plus one case of micro-brewed Schlafly Beer

500 words maximum per story, up to three stories per entry.
$20 reading fee includes a one-year subscription
(3 issues).
Include name and address on cover letter only.
Entrants will be notified by S.A.S.E.
Winner published in Spring issue.
All stories will be considered for publication.

Postmark entries by December 31, 2011 to:

River Styx’s Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest
3547 Olive Street, Suite 107
St. Louis MO 63103

Visit the website: http://www.riverstyx.org/contests/index.php