Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Fellowship in Poetry
Deadline: January 15, 2024
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The Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Fellowship in Poetry, supported by the Penelope Coker Hall/Eliza Wilson Ingle Fund of Central Carolina Community Foundation and sponsored by the South Carolina Academy of Authors, recognizes the talent of fiction poets in the state of South Carolina.
Award is $1,250 and an invitation to be honored at the SCAA Induction Ceremony. There is no restriction on form or content. Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (totaling no more than 10 pages). You may submit multiple entries, but each entry must be accompanied with entry fee. Entry fee is $20 per entry. We will accept entries in doc, docx, rtf, and pdf file formats. Applicants must be full-time residents of South Carolina and must not have won this Fellowship in the previous three years. Your name should not appear elsewhere on the poems submitted. Include contact information in the appropriate fields along with a brief bio in the cover letter field on the submission manager. This year’s final judge will be Ashley Mace Havird. Questions about the Coker Fellowship in Poetry should be sent to: scaafictionfellowships@gmail.com |
Ashley Mace Havird is a poet and novelist who grew up on a tobacco farm in South Carolina. Her collection of poems, Wild Juice (LSU Press, 2021), is the 53rd volume of the Southern Messenger Poets Series. The Garden of the Fugitives (Texas Review Press, 2014) won the X. J. Kennedy Prize for Poetry. Her debut novel, Lightningstruck (Mercer University Press, 2016), won the Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction.
Her poems and short stories have appeared in many journals including Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, and in anthologies such as The Southern Poetry Anthology, IV: Louisiana and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry. Poet Laureate of Caddo Parish from 2018-2021, Ashley lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, with her husband, the poet David Havird, and their own best dog in the world.
Her poems and short stories have appeared in many journals including Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, and in anthologies such as The Southern Poetry Anthology, IV: Louisiana and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry. Poet Laureate of Caddo Parish from 2018-2021, Ashley lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, with her husband, the poet David Havird, and their own best dog in the world.