Fall 2017 and Spring 2018

Contest Winning Poems

The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Society Prize

Arthur McMaster
Greer, SC

The Girl with the Just-Pretend Jump Rope

The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize

Libby Bernardin
Georgetown, SC

Habitat, Home, Harbor

The John Robert Doyle, Jr., Prize

Wrong Climate

Debbie Scott
Charleston, SC

The Sandy Eubank Memorial Prize

Harriet Madden
Columbia, SC

Edisto

The Starkey Flythe, Jr., Memorial Prize

Carrie Bailes
Greenville, SC

The 5th of July

The Forum Prize

Katrina Murphy
Charleston, SC

School Started Today

The Humorous Verse Prize

Talley Kayser
Charleston, SC

In Which Our Heroine Intends to Write Her Paramour a Letter, Searches for Appropriate Love-Poems to Enclose, and Becomes Irritated...

The John Edward Johnson Prize

Jerri Chaplin
Charleston, SC

Fast Funeral

The Lyric Poem Prize

Kit Loney
Charleston, SC

Awake Again at Two a.m.

The Marjorie E. Peale Memorial Prize

Talley Kayser
Charleston, SC

Barrier

The Peter Pan Prize

Mary O'Keefe Brady
Briarcliff Manor, NY

Tar Beach

The Nancy Walton Pringle Memorial Prize

Kit Loney
Charleston, SC

Beatissimus Thomas

The Klyde Robinson Poetry Prize

Mary Hutchins Harris
Charleston, SC

How the fall

The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize

Derek Berry
Charleston, SC

Not Another Teen Ghost Story: Libretto for Film Remake

The Skylark Prize

English Walpole
Charleston County School of the Arts

The Moon on Her Pillow

The Dr. Linda Veldheer Memorial Prize

Thomas Johnson
Asheville, NC

Antie's Archive

2018 Susan Laughter Meyers Summer Scholarship Winner

McKayla Conahan
Charleston, SC

Floating World

Fall 2017 | Spring 2018 Winning Poems: List