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2008 Anthony Abbott Undergraduate Poetry Competition Sponsored by The Charlotte Writers’ Club
2008 Winners!!!
Click here to see Photos and Read Poetry
Congratuations!
Winners of the 2008 Anthony Abbott Undergraduate Poetry
Competition:
First place: "Thief," by Graham Younger
Davidson College
Runners-up, poems in alphabetical order:
"Attn: Mr. Walt Disney," by Lauren Brown
Queens University of Charlotte
"July," by Claire McElvaney
Meredith College
"Time Travel, or Today is My Past-Life's Yesterday," by Kali
McCullough
Catawba College
"When Meeting Your Ghost," by Lauren Alston Smith
Catawba College
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Qualification: North Carolina full-time, and part-time, undergraduate students.
*** The application requires a teacher’s signature. No on-line submissions. The application can be obtained from the website. APPLICATION: (click here)
Questions and submissions : beagle7477@aol.comLouise Rockwell 17740 River Ford Drive Davidson, NC 28036
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by March 8, 2008Winners will be announced on the Charlotte Club website March 28, 2008
First Prize: One hundred fifty dollars. Six runners up: Fifty dollars each.Publication in the Charlotte Writers’ Club Anthology. Public reading May 1, 2008. Location to be announced.
Judge: Dr. Donald Mager. Dr. Mager has degrees from Drake University (BA 1964), Syracuse University (MA in Creative Writing, 1966) and Wayne State University (Ph.D. 1986). He was the Mott University Professor of English at Johnson C. Smith University from 1998-2004 where he is now the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has published over 200 poems and translations from German, Czech and Russian that include: poems and translations in journals including Chicago Review, New Orleans Review, West Coast Review, The Cape Rock, Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Prairie Wind, Mad Poets Review, Texas Quarterly, Modern Words, The Charlotte Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, Sun Dog: The Southeast Review, The Kenyon Review, Salon: Journal of Aesthetics, Eclectica Magazine, Western Humanities Review and others. His volumes of poetry are: To Track the Wounded One, Glosses, That Which is Owed to Death, Borderings, Good Turns and The Elegance of the Ungraspable. Mager has been a Professor of English at Johnson C. Smith University since 1986.
Manuscripts: Forty lines maximum. No haiku. One entry per person. Names must not appear on the manuscript. Submit two copies. Entries must be original and unpublished. Entries must be type-written, single spaced. Enclose a three by five card with title, author’s name, address, phone, and e-mail address.
Anthony S. Abbott was born in San Francisco. He was educated at Princeton University, and graduated, magna cum laude, in 1957. He received his A.M. from Harvard University in 1960, and his Ph.D. in 1962. He is the former Chairman of the Department of English at Davidson College in North Carolina. He has three poetry collections: The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat, A Small Thing Like a Breath, and The Search for Wonder in the Cradle of the World. His first novel, Leaving Maggie Hope was published in 2003. Tony is past president of the Charlotte Writers’ Club and the North Carolina Writers Network, and a past Chairman of the North Carolina Writer’s Conference. He has been honored by St. Andrews College with the Sam Ragan Award for his writing and service to the literary community of North Carolina. Tony Abbott is respected and loved by the community of writers.
*************************************************************************** The English Department of Queens University of Charlotte Present 2007 A poetry reading by Julie Suk and L.B. Green and The Winners of the 2007 Anthony Abbott Undergraduate Poetry Competition Queens University, Sykes Auditorium Saturday, 24 March 2007 2:00-4:00pm Julie Suk was born in Mobile, Alabama, and attended Stephens College and the University of Alabama. She is the author of The Dark Takes Aim (Autumn House Press, 2003); The Angel of Obsession (1992), winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award and the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award; Heartwood (1991); and The Medicine Woman (1980). She also co-edited Bear Crossings: An Anthology of North American Poets (1978) with Anne Newman and Nancy Cooke Stone. Julie Suk's poems have appeared in such periodicals as Georgia Review; Poetry, which awarded her the Bess Hokin Award; and Shenandoah. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. L.B. Green—essayist, painter, photographer, teacher and freelance writer—was born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. With a merit scholarship in Drama and Theatre Arts, she attended Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the author of Judas Trees North of the House (2003), winner of the Randall Jarrell Harperprints Award for Poetry. In 2005 she gained admission to The Kenyon Review Summer Program for Writers at Kenyon College to study Poetry and Poetics with faculty members David Baker and Meghan O’Rourke. The North Carolina Arts Council awarded Green Fellowship in 2005. In 2006 she was nominated to join The Southern Arts Federation in Literature: http://www.southernartistry.org/portfolio.cfm?id=1064&last=curious. Her residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is in 2007. She lives in Davidson, North Carolina.
Winners of the The Anthony Abbott Poetry Competition for N.C. Undergraduate Writers Anthony Abbott Poetry Competition sponsored by the Charlotte Writers Club.
First place: Qualification:
The
application requires a teacher’s signature. To download the contest application,
click here. Include the application with the submission. Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by January 31, 2007 Winners announced on the Charlotte Writers Club website March 1, 2007. Prizes:
Manuscripts: Forty lines maximum. One entry per person. No haiku. Name must not appear on the manuscript. Entries must be original and unpublished. Submit two copies. Entries must be typewritten, single-spaced. Enclose a 3x5 card with title, author’s name, address, phone, & e-mail address. Enclose a SASE with adequate postage if you wish entry to be returned by mail. E-Mail Questions to:
Submissions to:
Anthony S. Abbott was born in San Francisco. He was educated at Princeton University, and graduated, magna cum laude, in 1957. He received his A.M. from Harvard University in 1960, and his Ph.D. in 1962. He is the former Chairman of the Department of English at Davidson College in North Carolina. He has three poetry collections: The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat, A Small Thing Like a Breath, and The Search for Wonder in the Cradle of the World. His first novel, Leaving Maggie Hope was published in 2003. Tony is past president of the Charlotte Writers Club and the North Carolina Writers Network, and a past Chairman of the North Carolina Writer’s Conference. He has been honored by St. Andrews College with the Sam Ragan Award for his writing and service to the literary community of North Carolina. Tony Abbott is respected and loved by the community of writers. Past Winners of the Anthony Abbott Poetry
Competitions for N.C. Undergraduate Writer Congratulations to the winners of the third annual Anthony Abbott Poetry Competition Winner: The First Run After by Jacob Bathanti. Wake Forest University Runners Up (Poets by Alphabetical Order) 1. A Clement Touch, by Kathrine Cays. Wake Technical Community Colleg 2. Alcoholism Poster Child by Heather Collings. Queens University 3. Into 89 by Sarah Cadence Hamm. Catawba College 4. October by Kathryn S. Linn. Queens University 5. You Can’t Touch This: A True Hollywood Story by Jon Robertson Catawba College 6. Outside the Corriher-Linn-Black Library, a frog by Lauren Alston Smith Catawba College
Congratulations to the winners of the
second annual Anthony Abbott Poetry Competition
Winner:
Grandfather's Hands by Nneka Campbell
Alone with the Stars by Kendell D. Milton Past Anthony Abbott Poetry Competition Winners
Congratulations
to the winners of the First Anthony Abbott Poetry Competition |