Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize

Robert West
2011-2012 Poetry Judge

2011-2012 Submission Guidelines:

Includes traditional and non-traditional styles; no haiku poems
Open to North Carolina and South Carolina residents
Line/Word Count: 50 line maximum

Dates, Fees, & Prizes

Deadline: March 20, 2012
Award Date: May 15, 2012
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)

Contest Judge: Originally from Henderson County in western North Carolina, Robert West graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics before earning his B.A. in English from Wake Forest University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After two years as a visiting assistant professor of English at Wake Forest, he joined the Department of English at Mississippi State University, where he currently serves as an associate professor. His poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in many venues, including Appalachian Heritage, Appalachian Journal, Asheville Poetry Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Christian Science Monitor, Iron Mountain Review, Pembroke Magazine, Poetry, Southern Cultures, Southern Poetry Review, and Tar River Poetry. He is associate editor of Mississippi Quarterly, a scholarly journal devoted to the study of Southern literature, and is editor of the forthcoming Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons. His latest collection of poems is the chapbook Convalescent, published by Finishing Line Press in 2011.

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Send contest submissions to:

Deane Lomax Poetry Submission
Charlotte Writers' Club
P.O. Box 220954
Charlotte, NC 28222

For inquiries or questions, email contests@charlottewritersclub.org.

For email submissions, please follow the instructions below.

Manuscript and eligibility requirements apply as above.
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CONTEST WINNER ARCHIVES

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"