The Teacher’s Voice was founded as an experimental hardcopy literary magazine on December 23, 2004 and is now free and online. We publish creative nonfiction, poetry, short stories, and essays that reflect the many different American teacher experiences. We ask to see critical creative writing that takes risks without being overly self-indulgent or inaccessible.
We are a loose nonprofit collective of educators and students that receives no state, federal, or corporate funding. Every dollar donated by individuals and raised through poetry contests is used to pay for contest, hardcopy, advertising, website, and all other magazine expenses.
This year, we are going to release our second annual Teacher's Voice Chapbook Contest selection as well as last year's runner-up, a "Best of 2008" chapbook, and other limited press collections if funds allow.
Since we publish open as well as theme issues (that require enough thematic pieces to be compiled) and do rely on readership financial support, our publishing schedule and format may vary from year to year. Our production goal is to showcase strong cohesive collections that support our mission and satisfy the needs of particular issues. For the moment, our new focus on electronic publishing is a matter of survival that offers many new possibilities and opportunities in keeping with the changing times.
Our deepest thanks to all the contributors, volunteers, advisors, readers, friends, and family members that have warmly given their support in many ways.
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1st Annual Chapbook Contest
Final Judge: Sapphire; Symposium: Pushing Boundaries/Pushing Art
FIRST PLACE WINNER
Smack Down!
by Anna E. Moss
SECOND PLACE WINNER
Mentoring Heidi
by Patricia Lawson
THIRD PLACE WINNER
Untitled Manuscript
by Karen Waggoner
HONORABLE MENTION
Friday Afternoon by Ken Pobo
Reverence by Richard Holinger
Tales Out of School and In by Robert Castle
FINALISTS
Lunch In Chinatown by Mary Bonina
I Am The Teacher by Liz Ahl
The Flying Trolley by Iris Jamahl Dunkle
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1st Annual New/Emerging Poets' Contest
FIRST PLACE WINNER
Odysessus in Hades: A Classroom Voyage
by John W. Pardee
SECOND PLACE WINNER
Being Schooled
by Shahé Mankerian
THIRD PLACE WINNER
Bilingual Children, Niños Bilingües
by Angélia Salerno
HONORABLE MENTION
I Won't Teach You Less by Danielle Kelly
Grendel's Mommy by Lawrence James Nielsen
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