Janice Farrell Poetry Prize Category
First Prize: $100
Second Prize: $50
Third Prize: $25
Category Details
Three poems per entry. One poem per page. One page poems only. We welcome free verse, blank verse and prose poems. Each year a local poet is invited to guest judge. Past judges have included Indigo Moor, Katherine Harer, Rich Yurman, Patricia Gale, Christopher J. Renz, O.P., David Smith-Ferri, Toby Kaplan, Joyce Jenkins, C. B. Follett, Susan Terris, Janell Moon, Alice Rogoff, Clive Matson, David Alpaugh, Forrest Hamer, Marcia Campbell, Andrena Zawinski, Grace M. Grafton, Adam David Miller, Stewart Florsheim, Marvin R. Hiemstra, Charles and Gail Entrekin, Jeanne Wagner, Erica Goss, Connie Post, Susan Cohen, Dawn McGuire, Robert Eastwood, and Lee Rossi.
About Sponsor
JANICE FARRELL (San Francisco, CA) has a private practice in Spiritual Direction and trains and supervises Spiritual Director interns at Mercy Center Burlingame. She has a degree in Psychology, certification as a Holistic Health Educator Counselor, and has done extensive post grad work in Theology. She invites local poets as annual judges in her eager and full-hearted support of poetry, which she loves deeply.
About the 2022 Judge
MAW SHEIN WIN’s (El Cerrito, CA) recent poetry book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn Publishing), has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and shortlisted for CALIBA’s Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. Win’s previous publications include Invisible Gifts (Manic D Press), Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA), and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Maw was the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016-2018) and a 2021 ARC Poetry Fellow at UC Berkeley. She often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and other writers.
Judge’s Website
2022 Winners
- First Prize: Carol Tiebout of Edmonds, WA
Water and Straw - Second Prize: Jenny Qi of San Francisco, CA
take this body - Third Prize: Nancy Beauregard of Santa Fe, NM
we don’t speak of the dying
2022 Honorable Mentions
Jill R. Burkey of Grand Junction, CO for Beginning Mind
John Rowe of El Cerrito, CA for An Unknown Search
Tobey Hiller of San Rafael, CA for when I lie down in the woods
Angie Minkin of San Francisco, CA for After Listening to Mary Oliver on a Podcast
Abby Caplin of San Francisco, CA for Blue Year
Robert Eastwood of San Ramon, CA for Rivalry, Deer & Trees
Ellen Romano of Hayward, CA for The Night Yard
Jessica Cohn of Aptos, CA for Projection
Tobey Hiller of San Rafael, CA for against dread (what I mean is)
Corey Weinstein of San Francisco, CA for Ghosts