Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize

The 2012-2013 Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Contest is now CLOSED.
Thank you to everyone who submitted. This year's winners will be listed shortly.

For email submissions, please follow the instructions below.

Manuscript and eligibility requirements apply as above.
Submission(s) may be emailed to contests@charlottewritersclub.org.
Entry fees must be paid through PayPal and received at the same time as each submission. If submissions are submitted without entry fees, the submission will not be judged.
Deadline: March 19, 2013.
Poetry of fewer than 50 lines; haiku excluded.
Entry Fee: CWC Members: $5.00, Non-members: $10.00
Prizes: First Place: $100.00, Second Place: $50.00, Third Place: $25.00, Honorable mentions (up to 3)

The 2012-2013 Deane Ritch Lomax contest judge is Richard Krawiec. Krawiec’s second book of poems, She Hands me the Razor (title poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize), was published by Press 53. It was one of 17 finalists for a SIBA Award. His first book of poems, Breakdown, was a finalist for a minor award. His poetry and fiction appear in dozens of literary magazines, including Shenandoah, Chataqua, Florida Review and NC Literary Review. In addition to poetry, he has published two novels, Time Sharing and Faith in What?; a story collection, And Fools of God; and four plays. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NC Arts Council (twice), and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He teaches Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced online Fiction Writing for UNC Chapel Hill, for which he won their Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. He is founder of Jacar Press, a Community Active publishing company dedicated to paying writers and working in underserved communities.

Krawiec has also worked extensively with people in homeless shelters, women's shelters, prisons, literacy classes and community sites, teaching writing.

CONTEST WINNER ARCHIVES

2011-2012 Award Winners
Contest Judge: Robert West
1st Place: Suzanne M. Degni for "Utica, New York: January 1935"
2nd Place: Anthony S. Abbott for "What I Would Have Said"
3rd Place: Elizabeth Swann for "Wishbone"
Honorable Mentions:
David Radavich for "Echo"
Sandra Ann Winters for "Still Life"

2010-2011 Award Winners
Contest Judge: Kristin Berkey-Abbott
1st Place: Maureen Sherbondy for "What the Prince Doesn’t Know"
2nd Place: Maureen Sherbondy for "Unveiling"
3rd Place: Sean Carter for “Bull Lee Opens His Veins Toward the North”
Honorable Mentions:
Barbara Campbell for "Southern Snow"
Leslie Rupracht for "In Flight, Arizona to Utah"
Maureen Sherbondy for "Strand"

2009-2010 Award Winners
Contest Judge: Naomi Guttman
1st Place: Jenny Hubbard for "Under a Gingko"
2nd Place: Joan McLean for "This Could Be"
3rd Place: Suzanne Degni for “Perigee (March 1993): The Night of the Big Moon”
Honorable Mentions:
Tony Abbott for "Wild Old, Mad Old Man"
David Radavich for "True Story"
Barbara Campbell for "Crow, Not Crow"

2008-2009 Award Winners
Contest Judge: Alex Grant
1st Place: Richard Taylor for “The Essence of Art"
2nd Place: Maureen Sherbondy for "The Shoplifter"
3rd Place: Sue Dellinger for “The Lovers"
Honorable Mentions:
Elizabeth Swann for “Mama Can’t Scat”
Maureen Sherbondy for "How to Succeed in Sales”
Sue Dellinger for "Dark Chocolate”

2007-2008 Award Winners
Contest Judge: Donna Earnhardt
1st Place: Katherine Barr for "The Texas Snake Man Speaks"
2nd Place: Jessie Carty for "Elegy #2"
3rd Place: Elizabeth Swann for "Bread Crumbs"
Honorable Mentions:
Scott Douglas for "Shop Talk"
Andy Kalnik for "Gorilla Territory"
Bobbie Campbell for "And Then We Were One"

Judge: Susan Meyers

2005-2006 Award Winners
Contest Judge: Philip Memmer
1st Place: Gilda Morina Syverson for "Juggling"
2nd Place: Allison Elrod for "The Growing Season"
3rd Place: Blynn Field for "When Love Barely Lights the Way"
Honorable Mentions:
Genie Colter for "Heaven"
Lynn Veach Sadler for "Resetting Dominoe"
Richard Allen Taylor for "3"

2004-2005 Award Winners
1st Place: Maureen Sherbondy for "Sleeping Beauty in Old Age"
2nd Place: Lisa Zerkle for "How a Poet Wins Scrabble"
3rd Place: Jeannette Hinton Dorsey for "Before I Was"
Honorable Mentions:
Wendy H. Gill for "The Right Suit"
Lisa Zerkle for "Duck and Cover"
Lisa Zerkle for "A Daughter Declines Her Mother's Inheritance"

2003-2004 Award Winners
Contest Judge: Mary Ellen Marusa and Chuck Gregg
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"
Honorable Mentions:
Sara Clayton for "Klaeidoscope: Long Road to Somewhere"
Betsy Humphreys for "Fishing For One Pearl"
Richard Band for "Sandbox"