Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Student Prize in Poetry
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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.
The award is $250 and an invitation to be honored at a future SCAA event. There is no restriction on form or content. Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (totaling no more than 10 pages). Entry is free. Authors grant the SCAA first publication and electronic reprint rights to prize-winning work. Authors retain all re-publication rights and are free to reprint the work in any publication, subject to acknowledging original publication in South Carolina Academy of Authors annual publication. The author guarantees that the submitted work has not previously been published elsewhere. Entries generated by AI will not be accepted. We will accept entries in doc, docx, rtf, and pdf file formats. Applicants must be 18-25 years old at the time of submission and enrolled full time as an undergraduate at a private or public South Carolina institution of higher education. In a change to the contest from previous years, applicants may now have an out-of-state permanent address, but they must be currently living full time in South Carolina while attending a South Carolina institution of higher learning (applicants will be required to list a South Carolina student address). Applicants also must not have won this prize in the previous three years. Your name should not appear anywhere on the poems submitted. Include contact information with a brief bio in the body of the email. Submissions should be sent to [email protected]. The 2026 contest will be judged once again by Rachel Hadas. Questions about the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Student Prize in Poetry should be sent to: [email protected]. |
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Rachel Hadas is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Her most recent poetry collection is Pastorals (2025). Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants, the O.B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Hadas taught English at Rutgers University-Newark from 1981 to 2023, and was named a Board of Governors Professor in 2001. She has also taught courses in literature and writing at Columbia and Princeton Universities, the Ninety-second Street Y, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the West Chester Poetry Conference, and the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center. https://www.rachelhadas.net/
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