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2009 Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize
Open to residents of North and South Carolina (50 lines maximum)
Deadline: March 17, 2009
Awarded: May 19, 2009
Eligibility, Entry Fees, Submissions, Awards
Contest Chair: TBA
Contest Judge: Alex Grant, author of “Chains and Mirrors.”
Questions: CWCContests@carolina.rr.com
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Archives
2008 Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Contest Winners
Of the 45 entries received for this year s Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Contest, all 6 winners are CWC members. Judge Donna Earnhardt said the top six were excellent, and that she was forced to read them again and again before making her final decision. In the end, there were three winners and three honorable mentions. First honorable mention goes to Scott Douglas for his poem, Shop Talk. Second HM is Gorilla Territory, by Andy Kalnik. And third HM is And then We Were One, by Bobbie Campbell. The third place winner is Elizabeth Swann, for her poem, Bread Crumbs. The second place winner is Jessie Carty for Elegy #2. And the first place winner is Katherine Barr, for The Texas Snake Man Speaks, a poem Ms. Earnhardt calls brilliant. Katherine, a long time member of the Writer s Club, is a retired high school librarian and the current editor of News & Views, a state newsletter for the National Federation of the Blind. Congratulations, Katherine.Open to residents of North and South Carolina
50 lines Maximum Deadline: March 18, 2008
Awarded: May 20, 2008
Entry Fees, Submissions, Awards
Contest Chair: Celina Mincey.
Questions: CWC Contest Chairperson
Send to:
Charlotte Writers' Club Poetry Contest
8032 S Dorchester Trace
Fort Mill, SC 29707
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Judge: Susan Meyers 
Past Winners of the Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Contests
Gilda Syverson Wins Poetry Prize 
Gilda Morina Syverson received the first place award in the Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Contest at the Charlotte Writers Club May meeting.
Syverson s poem, Juggling, earned high praise from judge Philip Memmer of Syracuse, N.Y. He said, Of all the poems entered, I felt this was the most ambitious, both in terms of its form and its subject matter. I also admired the way the poet resisted the urge to make an overt ending statement...This is a poem about questioning, and the poem ends not giving us a flat answer but by presenting a powerful image.
The poet moved to the Charlotte area in 1979 with her husband Stu. With an M.F.A. degree from Southern Illinois University, Syverson has taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College, and Queens University.
Her chapbook, In This Dream Everything Remains Inside, was part of Main Street Rag s 2004 Editor s Choice Chapbook Series. Her poems and essays have appeared in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies in the United States and Canada. Her commentaries also have aired on Charlotte s National Public Radio Station, WFAE 90.7.
Second place in the contest went to Allison Elrod for The Growing Season and third to Blynn Field for When Love Barely Lights the Way. Genie Colter s Heaven, Lynn Veach Sadler s Resetting Dominoe, and Richard Allen Taylor s 3 all received honorable mention.
2003-2004
1st Place: Gail Peck for "The Moon No Longer Ful"
2nd Place: Cary Ellen Howie for "Mary Oliver's World"
3rd Place: Lynn Veach Sadler for "My Jewish Mother"
1st Honorable Mention: Sara Clayton for "Klaeidoscope: Long Road to Somewhere"
2nd Honorable Mention: Betsy Humphreys for "Fishing For One Pearl"
3rd Honorable Mention: Richard Band for "Sandbox"
The judge: Published poet and psychotherapist, Mary Ellen Marusa, MA, of Syracuse, New York; and author and educator Chuck Gregg, PhD, at the University of Utah, will be the judges. Gregg founded "Writers at Work" Workshop in Park City, Utah and has published five books.
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