McCray Nickens Fellowship in Poetry
Deadline: January 15, 2022
The McCray Nickens Fellowship in Poetry, co-sponsored by the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the South Carolina Writers Association, recognizes the talent of emerging and established poets in the state of South Carolina.
Award is $1500, and an invitation to be honored at the SCAA Induction Ceremony in 2022.
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 Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (totaling no more than 10 pages).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 $20.00 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 Kwame Dawes
Questions about the McCray Nickens Fellowship in Poetry should be sent to:
scaapoetryfellowships@gmail.com
Award is $1500, and an invitation to be honored at the SCAA Induction Ceremony in 2022.
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 Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (totaling no more than 10 pages).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 $20.00 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 Kwame Dawes
Questions about the McCray Nickens Fellowship in Poetry should be sent to:
scaapoetryfellowships@gmail.com
Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. In 2016 his book, Speak from Here to There, a co-written collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella appeared. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern University Press) will appear in 2017. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program. He is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.
Often called 'the busiest man in literature', Kwame celebrated the publication of eight new books in 2016-2017.
Archive of Online Poetry of Kwame Dawes Kwame Dawes: An Archive of Online Poems
Often called 'the busiest man in literature', Kwame celebrated the publication of eight new books in 2016-2017.
Archive of Online Poetry of Kwame Dawes Kwame Dawes: An Archive of Online Poems
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