McCray Nickens Fellowship in Poetry
Deadline: January 15, 2020
Award is $1500, two tickets to the 2020 SCAA induction (with hotel accommodation if necessary), and a SCAA Induction awards brunch in your honor the following morning. Entry Fee is $20.00, payable online with PayPal (below). There is no restriction on form or content. Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (totaling no more than 10 pages).
This year’s final judges will be Ashley M Jones.
Applicants must be full-time residents of South Carolina and must not have won this Fellowship in the previous three years. To enter:
This year’s final judges will be Ashley M Jones.
Applicants must be full-time residents of South Carolina and must not have won this Fellowship in the previous three years. To enter:
- upon receipt of payment, please email your poems as a file attachment (Word or PDF) to: scaapoetryfellowships@gmail.com,
- include a cover page with your name, home address, email, and phone number. Your name should not appear elsewhere on the poems,
- indicate on the cover sheet which contest you are entering (“McCray Nickens Fellowship”).
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McCray Nickens Student Prize in Poetry
Deadline: January 15, 2020
Award is $500, and a SCAA Induction awards brunch in your honor. There is no Entry Fee for the Student Prize; however, the winner may be asked to provide documentation attesting to their full-time enrollment status during fall 2018. There is no restriction on form or content. Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (totaling no more than 10 pages).
This year’s final judges will be Ashley M Jones.
At the time of submission, applicants must be 18-25, legal residents of South Carolina, and enrolled full-time at a private or public South Carolina institution of higher education. To enter:
This year’s final judges will be Ashley M Jones.
At the time of submission, applicants must be 18-25, legal residents of South Carolina, and enrolled full-time at a private or public South Carolina institution of higher education. To enter:
- upon receipt of payment, please email your poems as a file attachment (Word or PDF) to: scaapoetryfellowships@gmail.com,
- include a cover page with your name, home address, email, and phone number. Your name should not appear elsewhere on the poems,
- indicate on the cover sheet which contest you are entering (“McCray Nickens Student Prize”).
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Ashley M. Jones is a poet, organizer, and educator from Birmingham, Alabama. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and she is the author of Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press, 2017) and dark / / thing (Pleiades Press, 2019). Her poetry has earned local and national awards, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, a Literature Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. Her poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming at CNN, The Oxford American, Origins Journal, The Quarry by Split This Rock, Obsidian, and many others. She teaches at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and she is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival in Birmingham, Alabama.
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