Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Student Prize in Poetry
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Winner: Logan Baker is from Charleston, South Carolina, and currently attends Clemson University’s Honors College, where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences.
She grew up surrounded by the arts and had the opportunity to study Creative Writing at Charleston County School of the Arts before college. Baker enjoys blending the science of the natural world with the humanities, and she believes that the two disciplines are fundamentally linked. Writing is a central part of her life and studies, and she hopes to continue exploring biology through the lens of poetry and storytelling. |
Deadline: Ended February 29, 2024
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The Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Student Prize 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 college student poets in the state of South Carolina.
Award is $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 Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (totaling no more than 10 pages). Entry is free. We will accept entries in doc, docx, rtf, and pdf file formats. Applicants must be 18-25 years old at the time of submission, legal residents of South Carolina, and enrolled full time at a private or public South Carolina institution of higher education. Applicants also must not have won this prize (previously known as the Carrie McCray Nickens Student Prize in Poetry) in the previous three years. Your name should not appear anywhere 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. Be sure to click on the correct SC Academy of Authors submission link. This year’s final judge will be Ashley Mace Havird. Questions about the Coker Student Prize in Poetry should be sent to: [email protected]. |
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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, Volume 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. |