2009 Winners

GPS 2009 Contest Season

Contest Chair:

Lou Jones

Foreign Language Contest:

No prize was awarded due to insufficient number of entries.

The Byron Herbert Reece International Award (61 entries):
Judge: Tom Lombardo
1st Place: "Ode to an Outhouse" by Larry Hand, Woodstock GA
2nd Place: "Flames" by Robert Walton, King City CA
3rd Place: "Easter Pageant" by Janet Lombard, Athens GA
Honorable Mention: "The Innocents" by Robert Lynn, Duluth GA
Honorable Mention: "A Good days Work" by Sandy Hokanson, Alpharetta GA
Honorable Mention: "Fangs at my Fingertips" by Larry Hand, Woodstock GA

Founders Award (80 entries):
Judge: Maudelle Driskell
1st Place: "Ghosts in the Hashbrowns" by Linda Lee Harper, Augusta GA
2nd Place: "Flying Kites With Kirsten on a Thursday Afternoon" by JC Reilly, Atlanta GA
3rd Place: "Eighty" by Karen Burnette Garner, Dacula GA
Honorable Mention: "God in Flight" by John Ottley Jr., Alpharetta GA
Honorable Mention: "Safe" by Lynn Farmer, Decatur GA
Honorable Mention: "The River" by Wilson Williams, Columbus GA

Educator’s Award (61 entries):
Judge:Alice Friman
1st Place: "Pushing Narcissus" by JC Reilly, Atlanta GA
2nd Place: "A Place du Tertre, Montmarte" by Jill Jennings, Woodstock GA
3rd Place: "Home Run" by Ann Gillespie, Cleveland GA

Mnemosyne Award (70 entries):
Judge: Lynn Alexander
1st Place: "To Pioneers William and Easter" by Larry Hand, Woodstock GA
2nd Place: "The Art of Loss" by JC Reilly Atlanta GA
3rd Place: "The Reminder" by Martha R. Phillips, Athens GA
Honorable Mention: "An Ode on a Sunset Porch" by Larry Hand, Woodstock GA
Honorable Mention: "The Night Before" by JC Reilly, Atlanta GA

The Edgar Bowers Award (36 entries):
Judge: John Bush
First Place: "Triptych, Plus One" by Linda Lee Harper, Augusta, GA
Second: "Charleston Sonnet" by Nathan Friedman, Richmond VA
Third: "Ballade of December Night" by Enriqueta Carrington, Highland Park NJ
Honorable Mention: "Mementos of Moscow" by Charles Hughes, Park Ridge IL

The Langston Hughes Award (31 entries):
Judge: Beverly Head
1st Place: "Daddy Left With His Guitar" by Terry Hensel, Alpharetta GA
2nd Place: "Dancing in the Dark, 1944 Style" by Anderson Frazar, Columbus GA
3rd Place: "The Last Ride" by Francie Smith-Rountree, Sautee-Nacoochee GA