2011-2012 Contest Guidelines:

• For North Carolina full-time and part-time undergraduate students.
• Entries require an instructor's email stating that the poet is an undergraduate student. 
• We accept email submissions only. 

Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by February 1, 2012
Winners will be announced on the CWC website.
First Prize: $150
Louise Rockwell Honorable Mention: A single award of $100 for a poem, any form, any style which addressed deep truths found in everyday moments.
Five runners up: $50 each
Special reception and public reading in conjunction with renowned poet Dorianne Laux at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte on April 17, 2012

Manuscripts:

• Forty lines maximum. No haiku. One entry per person.
• Entries must be original and unpublished. Poems must be single spaced.
• Entries must include: title, author’s name, address, phone, college or university, and instructor's email. 

Email questions to Terri Wolfe: twolfe900@gmail.com

Mail submissions to Lisa Kline: lisa.williams.kline@gmail.com

Anthony S. Abbott was born in San Francisco and educated at Fay School in Massachusetts and the Kent School in Connecticut. He received his A.B. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Abbott is Professor Emeritus of English at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, where he served as Department Chair from 1989 to 1996. His first novel, Leaving Maggie Hope was published in 2003 and received the Novello Literary Award and ForeWord Magazine’s Gold Award for literary fiction. It’s sequel, The Three Great Secret Things, was published in 2007. He is the author of five books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize nominated The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat. His most recent book New & Selected; Poems 1989–2009 was published in 2009 by Lorimer Press.

Tony is past President of the Charlotte Writers’ Club and the North Carolina Writers Network, and a past Chairman of the North Carolina Writers Conference. He currently serves as President of the North Carolina Poetry Society. 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. In 2008, he was the North Carolina Writers Conference honoree, and received the Irene Blair Honeycutt Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts.

Louise Rockwell was a long-time Charlotte Writers' Club member, who passed away Friday, February 4, 2011. Click here to read more.