McCray Nickens Fellowship in Poetry
Deadline: January 15, 2021
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, publication in Catfish Stew, and an invitation to read and be honored at the SCAA awards luncheon in April 2021.
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 Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (totaling no more than 10 pages).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 Tiana Clark
Questions about the McCray Nickens Fellowship in Poetry should be sent to:
scaapoetryfellowships@gmail.com
Award is $1500, publication in Catfish Stew, and an invitation to read and be honored at the SCAA awards luncheon in April 2021.
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 Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (totaling no more than 10 pages).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 Tiana Clark
Questions about the McCray Nickens Fellowship in Poetry should be sent to:
scaapoetryfellowships@gmail.com
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Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award (Claremont Graduate University), a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, a recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize, a winner of the 2017 Furious Flower’s Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize, and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She was the 2017-2018 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. Clark is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (M.F.A) and Tennessee State University (B.A.) where she studied Africana and Women's studies. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Washington Post, VQR, Tin House Online, Kenyon Review, BuzzFeed News, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Oxford American, Best New Poets 2015, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
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