Spring 2008 Contest Winners

The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Donald L. Geddes, “The Tear of Things”

The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Patricia Tanner Candal, “Before We Leave”

The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Patricia Tanner Candal, “Calling Out the Memories”

The Forum Prize
Aly Goodwin, “The Moon of Ripe Blackberries”

The Humorous Verse Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “I Should Have”

The Gertrude Munzenmaier Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “In the Garden”

The Peter Pan Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “A Rainbow in the Making”

The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Donald L. Geddes, “Ordnance

The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Michael Hugh Lythgoe, "The Alchemist"

The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Ann Herlong-Bodman, “History 101”

The Skylark Prize
Cameron Blake Rotton, “Apocalypse”
Winter 2007 Contest Winners

The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Helen C. Brandenburg, “After the Storm”

The Footlight Players Prize
Tim Harkins, “Dying for a Drink”

The John Edward Johnson Prize
Jerri Chaplin, “Passover, Junior Year”

The Lyric Poem Prize
Libby Bernardin, “First Snow”

The Carrie Allen McCray Prize
Kit Loney, “Madame Butterfly and the Down Syndrome Kid”

The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Mary Hutchins Harris, “Waiting to Be Served”

The Pegasus Prize
James J. Lundy, Jr., “Silent Film Prayer”

The Post and Courier Prize
Terri McCord, “Grainy”

The Constance Pultz Prize
Marguerite Scott, “Personal Effects”

The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Brian Slusher, “No Children”

The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Aly Goodwin, “In the Moon of Yellow Fever,
      Campobello, South Carolina, 1916”
Spring 2007 Contest Winners

The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Debra Daniel, “His Daughter Who Goes to College in Charleston”

The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Libby Bernardin, “On Isle of Palms in the Month of No Moon”

The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Jules Riley, “Waist Deep in Winter Water”

The Forum Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Old Man”

The Humorous Verse Prize
Lee Robinson, “Advice We Give Our Children”

The Peter Pan Prize
Mary W. Carson, “Inside Out”

The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Charleston Docks, Posed for Watercolor

The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, "Maybe Once Upon a Time?"

The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “The Other Side of Town”

The Skylark Prize
Victoria Rose Witte, “Love, Cards, in the Atlantic”
Winter 2006 Contest Winners

The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Prize
Kit Loney, “Unsmashing the Goblet”

The Footlight Players Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Meeting Cortez”

The John Edward Johnson Prize
Michael Hugh Lythgoe, “Adoration of the Magi”

The Lyric Poem Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “I Watch the Final Wednesday
    of November”


The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Aly Goodwin, “Written Sitting in the Ruins of Old
    Sheldon Church, St. William's Parish, Beaufort
    County, South Carolina, 16 October, 2004”


The Pegasus Prize
Carol Peters, “Aunt Naked”

The Post and Courier Prize Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “My Father Spends the Night Lost
    in the Santee Swamp”


The Constance Pultz Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Matches”

The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Katherine Williams, “Anagram: Epithalamion”

The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Don Geddes, “Archie”



Spring 2006 Contest Winners

The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “John Bennett”

The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Isn’t There A Ship”

The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Michael H. Lythgoe, “Tango de La Luna”

The Forum Prize
Carol G. Furtwangler, “Cocoon”

The Humorous Verse Prize
James J. Lundy, Jr., “When the Lights Go Out”

The Peter Pan Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “The Chase”

The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “Elegy for the City”

The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “Tomorrow Afternoon the Fifth Graders
      Will Hold Auditions for the Spring Play”


The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Henk Brandt, “Drawbridge on New Year’s Eve”

The Skylark Prize
Duncan Wallace Moore, “A Short Recounting
      of One Road to Immortality”
Winter 2005 Contest Winners

The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Prize
Deborah Lawson Scott, “The Elders”

The Footlight Players Prize
Michael H. Lythgoe, “Rooster Tales (3)”

The John Edward Johnson Prize
Kimberly Simms, “Brother’s Mess of Crosses”

The Lyric Poem Prize
Henk Brandt, “Woman”

The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “My Grandmother Steals Oleanders at Windy Hill Beach”

The Pegasus Prize
Jules Riley, “Dogstar Moon”

The Post and Courier Prize Prize
George Pope, “Meeting Miss Mississippi (Columbus, Mississippi, Circa 1961)”

The Constance Pultz Prize
George Pope, “Freedom Hat”

The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Kit Loney, “Hot Night, No Screens”

The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Pelican Mantras”

Kinloch Rivers Chapbook Prize Winner
Michael H. Lythgoe, Brass
2006 Gibbes Poets and Painters Program

High School Gold Winners in Poetry

Victoria Doose


Annie Doran


Liz Gildea


Daniel Perez


Rebecca Plante

Charleston County School of the Arts
Mary Ann Henry, Instructor

Bishop England High School
Helen Brandenburg, Instructor

Charleston County School of the Arts
Mary Ann Henry, Instructor

Academic Magnet High School
Wendy Pumphrey, Instructor

Academic Magnet High School
Junius Wright, Instructor

Middle School Gold Winners in Poetry

Meagan Brandli


Lauren DiNicola


Collins Rice


Lauren Ryder


Sally Sheppard


Ashley Hall
Jane Pelland, Instructor

Charleston County School of the Arts
Mary Ann Henry, Instructor

Charleston County School of the Arts
Mary Ann Henry, Instructor

Charleston County School of the Arts
Rene Bufo Miles, Instructor

Ashley Hall
Jane Pelland, Instructor