2010 NCSU Poetry Contest
Come January 15th, we will be accepting entries for the annual 2010 NCSU Poetry Contest. This remains one of the largest free-entry contests in the South; the contest in 2007 topped out at over 700+ (!) submissions from across the state. The judge has not been selected for this year's contest, but watch this space for updates. The rules are unchanging through the years...
The contest’s postmark DEADLINE will be March 1st, 2010
ELIGIBILITY:
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The contest is open to all North Carolina residents except 1) tenured/tenure-track professors in the University of North Carolina system or 2) writers with a published book.
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All entries must be typed, and you should send us two copies of each poem. You may submit as many as three poems. There is no limit as to length.
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Previous finalists must submit new work.
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Do NOT put your name on the poem, so it may be judged anonymously. Put your name on a cover sheet along with your contact information.
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No email submissions accepted. Due to volume, we cannot contact each contestant or return your poems afterwards.
Contestants should submit their poems to:
NCSU Poetry Contest
Campus Box 8105
English Department
NCSU
Raleigh, NC 27695-8105
FINAL RESULTS: The lists of finalists, honorable mentions, and winners will be published here. Ordinarily, there is a big ceremony in Caldwell Hall, but this year will be different due to the appearance of U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic at Thompson Theater on March 29th. This year prize winners will be acknowledged but we will send out the prize money and books (the 2010 Poetry Market) for the Honorable Mentions. We do hope you will join us for the Simic reading, which promises to be a great evening of poetry.
Here are the results from earlier contests:
The 2009 Contest with Guest Judge ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT
(Tie) Winners of the 2009 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize:
Rachel Richardson, "One Summer" (Greensboro, NC)
Rebecca Warren, "In the Neighborhood of Fire" (Greensboro, NC)
Honorable Mentions
Hannah Bonner, "What We Hope For" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Sarah Cox, "An Invocation, Revised" (Greensboro, NC)
Megan Roberts, "My Father's Side" (Raleigh, NC)
Finalists
Sarah Archer, "Life-long iron lung user dies during power failure" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Donald Ball, "All This" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Michael Colonnese, "Dead Spike Buck on the Blue Ridge Parkway" (Fayetteville, NC)
Alexandra Distler, "Debt" (Raleigh, NC)
Robert Greene, "forget Freud, read Mina Loy" (Raleigh, NC)
Elizabeth Jackson, "Hanging On" (Raleigh, NC)
Jeff Miles, "The Quiet Country" (Greensboro, NC)
Robert McCall, "Bodies Out of Motion" (Saluda, NC)
Matt Poindexter, "Learning to Whistle" (Carrboro, NC)
Mark Spring, "His First Time" (Raleigh, NC)
Shannon Ward, "The Butcher" (Raleigh, NC)
Winner of the 2009 Undergraduate Poetry Prize
Robert Greene, "forget Freud, read Mina Loy" (senior, English)
The American Academy of Poets Prize (for graduate students)
Celeste Doaks, "Video Girls vs. B-Girls" (Raleigh, NC)
The 2008 Contest with Guest Judge PETER MAKUCK
Winner of the 2008 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize:
C.G. Thompson, "Post Card to Ravinna " (Greenville, NC)
Honorable Mentions
Don Ball, "After the Dead " (Chapel Hill, NC)
William Blackley , "For God's Sake " (Elkin, NC)
Juliana Daugherty, "Ephphatha" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Brian Ownbey, "Sanctuary" (Raleigh, NC)
Finalists
Jane Andrews, "The Cowboy Way" (Raleigh, NC)
Mark Jay Brewin, "Todo Que Saben Es Trabajo" (Elon, NC)
Sarah Bull, "The Library Janitor" (Durham, NC)
Jessie Carty, "Best Friends " (Charlotte, NC)
Sarah Cox, "The Cartography of Winter " (Burlington, NC)
Eloise Gilster, "Market Watch" (Raleigh, NC)
Sean Honea, "Melatonin Blues " (Chapel Hill, NC)
Elizabeth Jackson, "Memorial Hospital, Chapel HIll, NC"
(Raleigh, NC)
Ariel Rudolph, "Writing in Dust" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Sarah Servie, "City Lights " (Raleigh, NC)
Jennifer Smyre, "Coffee Shop" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Robert Wells, "Separation" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Winner of the 2008 Undergraduate Poetry Prize
Jeannine Erasmus, "This Thing Called Love" (sophomore, English)
The American Academy of Poets Prize (for graduate students)
Noel Crook, "Job" (Raleigh, NC)
The 2007 Contest with Guest Judge DORIANNE LAUX
Winner of the 2007 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize:
Noel Crook, "The Slaves" (Raleigh, NC)
Honorable Mentions
Michael Gaspeny, "Shore Drive" (Greensboro, NC)
Randy Ogle, "Millbrook, NY" (Morrisville, NC)
Pamela St. Clair, "Bird Song" (Wilmington, NC)
Mark Sells, "Fear Poem" (Salisbury, NC)
Finalists
Don Ball, "Easter Egg" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Michael Colonnese, "The Classic Vault" (Fayetteville, NC)
Melody Garren, "Vanity of a Third-Grader" (Rutherfordton, NC)
Valentina Gnup, "At Edward Hopper's Self-Portrait" (Greensboro, NC)
Lauren Gould, "Via Larga, 39" (Raleigh, NC)
Sarah Hamm, "Little Girl Hiding Poem" (Salisbury, NC)
Michael Mayo, "The best part about digging holes for a living is you can't take
your work home with you" (Raleigh, NC)
Emily Meineke, "Outside the Baptist Church" (Chapel HIll, NC)
Calvin Nordt, "Physics" (Apex, NC)
Hannah Louise Poston, "That Roman Holiday" (Carrboro, NC)
Allison Seay, "The Absence" (Greensboro, NC)
Anthony Snider, "A Quiet Afternoon" (Wilmington, NC)
Travis Smith, "Comfort, 4th of July" (Chapel HIll, NC)
Winner of the 2007 Undergraduate Poetry Prize
Lauren Upton, "Water, Water Everywhere" (Raleigh, NC)
American Academy of Poetry Prize (for graduate students):
Kelly Michels, "Static in the Dark" (Raleigh, NC)
The 2006 contest with Guest Judge
KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER
Winner of the 2006 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize:
Heather Marcinowski, "The Charming" (Durham, NC)
Honorable Mentions
Amy Knox Brown, "Old Wives Tales" (Winston-Salem, NC)
Sam Cross, "Cabin Fever" (Raleigh, NC)
Ed Devany, "Don't Go Outside the Fence" (Chapel HIll, NC)
Joy Beshears Hagy, "Rapture" (Lexington, NC)
Jaime Laughter, "Gray's Lily" (Fuquay Varina, NC)
Finalists
Don Ball, "Alachua County 1988" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Ryland Bowman, "What I'll Need When I Go" (Greensboro, NC)
Cesar Castro, "Fifth Grade Torture Manual" (Carrboro, NC)
Jack Christian, "Boy On A String" (Raleigh, NC)
Sara Claytor, "Gangsters, Blondes, & P.I.'s" (Elk Park, NC)
Hilary Collins, "Swannanoa, N.C." (Swannanoa, NC)
Mary Hennessy, "In An Escher Print" (Raleigh, NC)
Mandy Monath, "Geese" (Salisbury, NC)
Brian Ownbey, "Indiana" (Raleigh, NC)
Daniel Parsons, "Rook-worm" (Raleigh, NC)
Ariel Rudolph, "Don't Look" (Boone, NC)
Elizabeth Stagg, "The Certainty of Husbands" (Durham, NC)
Cedric Tillman, "Branding" (Charlotte, NC)
Dianne Timblin, "From the Kitchen of Georgia M., July '31" (Durham, NC)
Lauren Upton "Equus Callabus" (Raleigh, NC)
Joan Weiner "A Hard Man to Love" (Asheville, NC)
Marian Westbrook "Interlude" (Goldsboro, NC)
The Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Poetry Prize
Michael Mayo, "Blowing Off Death" (Raleigh, NC)
The 2005 Contest with Guest Judge PETER MAKUCK
Winner of the 2005 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize
Irene Harvley-Felder, "In Celebration of Death" (Burlington, NC)
Honorable Mentions
Michael Colonnese, "Scabs" (Fayetteville, NC)
Timur Hammond, "How to Harvest the Last of the Basil" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Nora Shepard, "Out of the Ordinary" (Raleigh, NC)
Anna Franklin Smith, "Widow" (Raleigh, NC)
Finalists
Jeremy Aufrance, "A Sketch of Life Without You" (Greensboro, NC)
Evan Benz, "how else can a mirror blush?" (Raleigh, NC)
A.J. Collins, "Generation" (Falkland, NC)
Madge Duffey, "Leaving" (Raleigh, NC)
Rebecca Germain, "Talin" (Morrisville, NC)
Eloise Gilster, "Fruit" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Alex Grant, "How the Cuckoo Sings" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Kristen Gravitte, "Lazarus" (Raleigh, NC)
Mark Hennessy, "Maximum Possible Error" (Raleigh, NC)
Charles Jester, "Open Air" (Durham, NC)
J.D. McGee, "Observations at Merritt Island" (Raleigh, NC)
Jessica Polka, "Autohagiography of Lidwina of Schiedam (died 1433)"
(Chapel Hill, NC)
Rebecca Robbins, "Swimming Pool, 1964" (Raleigh, NC)
Jessica Sampley, "Tuscaloosa to Tupelo" (Raleigh, NC)
Marian Westbrook, "Preservation" (Goldsboro, NC)
Winner of the 2005 Undergraduate Poetry Prize
Millie Breedlove, "Eve" (senior, English)
The 2004 Contest with Guest Judge DAVID BOTTOMS
The 2003 Contest with Guest Judge ELEANOR WILNER
