Contests

Under a Hundred Chapbook Competition

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Under a Hundred: Chapbook Contest in Honor of Edward Davin Vicker

Every two years, the Under a Hundred Chapbook Competition selects for recognition three poets to be included in a combined chapbook. Below are the contest rules and guidelines for the 2010 Under a Hundred Chapbook Contest.

How to Enter

Send two copies of not more than 100 lines of poetry. You may include a title page, table of contents, and acknowledgements pages. These will not count as part of the 100 line limit for poetry.

No translations.

Use a conventional typeface, such as Times Roman, in 12-point font.

Do not include illustrations.

Poems must be typed and in English.

Use only 8 ½ X 11-inch white paper.

Any subject, and in any form. However, poems must demonstrate appropriate language and good taste. In general, poems will be disqualified if found to contain indecencies, obscenities, defamations, or hateful expressions.

Place your name and address on one copy of the manuscript. No author identification of any kind on the second copy, which will be sent to the judge.

No email, text message, disc, MP3 or other electronic submissions.

Entry Fee

$10 per submission of less than 100 lines. Make check/money order payable to Georgia Poetry Society. Do not send cash.

Only one entry is permitted per person.

Entrant need not be a member of the Georgia Poetry Society.

Deadline

Must be postmarked by October 31, 2010. Late entries will NOT be considered.

Mail entries to
Georgia Poetry Society
ATTN: Under A Hundred Contest
P. O. Box 2184
Columbus, GA 31902

Three winners will be chosen. No honorable mentions or runners-up.

GPS determines printing and binding specifications and book design. Publication rights rest with GPS until the chapbook is published. After that, rights revert to the author.

Winner receives $50 and 25 printed copies of the chapbook. The author may dispose of these as s/he deems appropriate, including selling them.
GPS will print additional copies of the winning chapbook over and above those presented to the author and reserves the right to sell these copies.

Enclose a SASE if you want to know if you won prior to the official announcement.

The contest will not be judged by a GPS member. The judge's decision will be final.

The Anderson Social Poetry Prize

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The award is given to honor two young men, Forest Anderson Rogers and Mathew Anderson Crowe, who had deep interest in how people interacted in past and current social conditions.

One winner will be awarded $500. Note: There are no 2nd or 3rd place awards in this contest.

Guidelines

Entered poems must exemplify the category of "social poetry." Social poetry reflects a keen interest in the human condition: our behaviors, relationships, beliefs, ideologies, scientific concepts, and how we perceive our world and the universe in which we reside. Poems submitted may be any form with a maximum length of 40 lines. Enter up to 3 poems. Poems submitted must also adhere to the Georgia Poetry Society "General Rules" for contests including the postmark deadline, October 31st.

Examples of social poetry: "Out, Out—" by Robert Frost, "The Death of the Hat" by Billy Collins, and "In the Waiting Room" by Elizabeth Bishop.

Entry Fee

(This is an exception from the standard fees for GPS contests.) $10 per poem (non-GPS members), $5 per poem (GPS members).

2009 Winners

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

NFSPS Contests

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:59:14 GMT

national competitions for state poetry society members

The Edgar Bowers Award

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:57:18 GMT

Maximum 40 lines; any subject.

Form: a traditional poem that must be written in the spirit of Bowers’ verse. (The poem must use rhyme and/or meter in a generally recognized and accepted poetic form, such as a sonnet, sestina, villanelle, etc.) Form must be identified on poem.

Honors Georgia poet Edgar Bowers (1924-2000), whose compact and rigorous formalism defined the spirit of his work. His poems expressed themes of loss—of the past, of friends, of family, of humanity.

Educators' Award

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:54:24 GMT

Maximum 40 lines; any subject, any form.

To enter you must be a past or present teacher or educator in any field of academic study.

Mnemosyne Award

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:51:39 GMT

Maximum 40 lines; any subject, any form.

Honors in memoriam Georgia Poetry Society members who were of notable service to the Society, including Thelma Ruth Hall, Katherine Ward, R. Riherd Greene, and Annette Rumph Peery. Mnemosyne (nigh-MOHS-eh-nee) was an ancient Greek goddess, the Muse of Memory.

Founders Award

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:45:57 GMT

Maximum 80 lines; any subject, any form.

Honors GPS founding President Edwin D. Vickers and co-founder Charles J. Bruehler.

GPS Contests General Rules

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:44:28 GMT

Please read before submitting

Byron Herbert Reece International Award

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Maximum 40 lines; any subject, any form.

Honors Georgia’s beloved and internationally renowned poet, Byron Herbert Reece (1917-1958), whose "finely-crafted ballads and lyrics celebrate the life and heritage of the north Georgia mountains” (courtesy, New Georgia Encyclopedia). Reece won two Guggenheims, and was nominated for a Pulitzer prize during his relatively brief career.

Foreign Language Competition

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This contest is for poetry in a language other than English. Please submit your poem in Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, French Creole, or Latin.

The poem should be no more than 30 lines, in a form or style considered "traditional” for that language (i.e., the "romancillo” for Spanish, etc.) and about any topic (it would be helpful to base the poem on a form / topic concurrent with the language / culture choice).

The prizes are: 1st Place: $50.00, 2nd Place: $25.00, and 3rd Place: $10.00.

The Langston Hughes Award

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Maximum 40 lines; any subject, any form.

Must be written in the spirit of Hughes’ poetry.

Celebrates the life and poetic achievements of Langston Hughes.

His early work, "The Weary Blues” earned him acclaim as an important contributor to the Harlem Renaissance arts movement of the 1920s. Hughes was affiliated with the Atlanta University Center.

Youth Competition

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Margery Carlson Prize is awarded annually by the Georgia Poetry Society for poetic achievement by students in grades 1-5. The Marel Brown Prize is a two-tier contest with prizes awarded annually by the Georgia Poetry Society for poetic achievement by students grades 6-8 and grades 9-12.

Eligibility

Any student in grades 1-12 enrolled in a Georgia public or private school or home-schooled at a permanent Georgia address.

Fees

There are no entry fees for this contest.

Length of Poem

Maximum of 32 lines.
Only one entry per student.
Maximum of four poems per school.

Subject

Any subject in good taste, any poetic form. Poem must be student's original and unpublished work. Teachers should ensure that works are not plagiarized.

Prizes (1st/2nd/3rd)

$15/ $10/ $5 (Margery Carlson, grades 1-5)
$20/ $15/ $10 (Marel Brown, grades 6-8)
$25/ $20/ $15 (Marel Brown, grades 9-12)

Prize-winners also receive a copy of the issue of The Reach of Song that contains winning youth poems.

Restrictions

Poems must be accompanied by entry form (a printable copy of the form is available on the GPS website at http://www.georgiapoetrysociety.org).

How to Enter Poems for Youth Poetry

To guide submissions, please adhere to these format considerations:

Type or word-process on standard 8.5x11 white paper. Grades 1-5 may submit hand-written entries. Please ensure legibility.

Do not include illustrations.

Select a standard font such as Times-Roman rather than some unconventional font (such as script fonts or Gothic). Use fonts no larger than 14-point.

One poem per page. Poems must be in English.

Submit two copies of the poem, one without author identification. The copy with identification should be taped, pasted or stapled to the entry form. Keep a copy of the poem submitted as they cannot be returned.

Send all manuscripts from the same school in one envelope with school name and grade level on the envelope exterior. No entries accepted from individual students unless home-schooled. Winners will be posted on the Society website at the completion of competition.

Entry form must accompany each poem and must be complete. Form must be signed both by the student submitter and the sponsoring teacher.

No emailed or disk entries accepted. Entries should be mailed to: Georgia Poetry Society, P.O Box 2184, Columbus, Georgia 31902 (Note: the Georgia Poetry Society mailing address usually follows the President. When a new President of the society is elected the mailing address may change. It is recommended that entrants check the website to verify the current mailing address as of the time of submission.)

Deadline

All entries must be postmarked no later than January 31 or next business day if January 31 falls on a holiday or weekend.

Judges

The Georgia Poetry Society will select qualified judges who receive the copies without author identification for judging.

Winners are announced at the April meeting of the Society. Winners are invited, but are not required, to appear with parents and/or teachers to receive their awards. The Georgia Poetry Society reserves the right to publish prize-winning poems in its annual anthology, The Reach of Song. Until published, rights rest with the Society. After publication, or a decision not to publish, rights revert to the author

GEORGIA POETRY SOCIETY
P.O. Box 2184
Columbus, GA 31902
(706) 221-4370

Email: georgiapoetrysociety@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.georgiapoetrysociety.org/

CONTACTS:
Keith Badowski, President
PO Box 2184
Columbus, Georgia 31902
georgiapoetrysociety@yahoo.com

Click on the file link below to download the entry form in PDF format.

Youth Contest Winners

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2008-2009 Youth Contest Results

Judge:

Carlos Valdes, GA Tech

Contest Chair:

Dr. Robert Simon

Results Ceremony:

25 April, 2009

Margery Carlson Prize:
1. "Another Cinderella" by Hannah Elias Sbaity from Pate’s Creek Elementary.
Teacher: Cheryl Green.

2. "Life" by Lydia Nuhfer from Huntley Hills Elementary School.
Teacher: Allison Hutchison.

3. "Ocean" by Alexxus Riles from the Georgia Academy for the Blind.
Teacher: Janice Polmatier.

Honorable mention: "A Year's Experience" by Jessica Ma from Shakerag Elementary School.
Teacher: Tina Hunter.

Marel Brown Prize:
Grades 6-8:
1. "I Pray" by Deshundre Willoughby from Carson Middle School.
Teacher: Sean Simpson.

2. "Worldly Things" by Katie Hay from McIntosh County Middle School.
Teacher: Cindy Jarriel.

3. "Tear-Satined Snow" by Kim Mejia from Haynes Bridge Middle School.
Teacher: Stephanie Brand.

Honorable mention: "Twas the Day Before Summer" by Alex Smith from Chestatee MS. Teacher: Michele Hood.

Grades 9-12:
1. "Yarn shops make my thoughts roll like oranges" by Emilie Menzel from Parkview High School.
Teacher: Mary Lynn Huie.

2. "Fallen" by Sara Cruzan from Northside High School.
Teacher: Carol Fasick.

3. "Obama Told Me So" by Eddie Sanders from Wilkinson County High School. Teacher: Mary Purrell.

Honorable mention:
"Cutting an Orange" by Allegra Midgette from Parkview High School.
Teacher: Mary Lynn Huie.

and "The Death of Poetry" by Levi David Vonk from Camden County High School. Teacher: Dan Vonk

Quote from the Judge:

"I was quite encouraged by the work of these young writers. If they continue to progress, the future of poetry in Georgia may be very bright.”

Judge Bio:

Carlos Valdes: Born in Cuba and grew up in New York. I have lived in Atlanta since 1987, when I came to the Georgia Institute of Technology. I have taught there since that time, mainly working with international students in the Georgia Tech Language Institute. Prior to coming to Atlanta, I did my graduate work in English at the University of Florida, where I studied under Donald Justice. For five years, I led a monthly poetry discussion group that met at the Buckhead Borders until 2004.

2008 Winners

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

GPS 2008 Contest Season

Contest Chair:

Dr. Robert Simon

Contest Winners:

The Byron Herbert Reece International Award:
Judge: Nick Norwood
1st Place: "Ars Poetica” by Constance Snyder
2nd Place: "Resolution” by M.B. Powell
3rd Place: "Haying Time in Chattooga County” by David Hightower

Founders Award:
Judge: Barry Marks
1st – "Please, Melanie” by John Ottley
2d – "The Pond” by Jim Barton
3d – "Corners” by Marguerite Watkins

2 Honorable Mentions:
"The Shut-in” by Jill Jennings
"Night Witness” by Lou Jones

Educator’s Award:
Judge: Ralph Tejeda Wilson
1st Place: "One Mother's Day" by M. B. Powell
2nd Place: "Lesson on Less" by Jane Blanchard
3rd Place: "Equus Felinus" by Lynn Sadler

Mnemosyne Award:
Judge: Robert Boliek
First Place: "A Review of the Situation” by Catherine Moran
Second Place: "About Playing House, I Can Tell you” by M. B. Powell
Third Place: "Blood Memories” by Tonette Long

The Edgar Bowers Award:
Judge: Thomas Lux
First Place: "Ode to an Armchair Athlete” by Larry Hand
Second: "Tulips at the Door” by J.C. Reilly
Third: "The VFW Post 3308 Cemetery” by M. B. Powell

The Langston Hughes Award:
Judge: Jennifer Horne
1st Place: "Blues Rose" by Jim Barton
2nd Place: "Here One Day and Gone" by Karen Garner
3rd Place: "Drop-in Centre” by Ruth Hill

Honorable Mentions:
"Daddy Left with His Guitar” by Terry Hensel
"Almighty Bright” by Ron Self