South Carolina Academy of Authors Announces Poetry Fellowship

The South Carolina Academy of Authors (SCAA) announces its annual $1000 fellowship in poetry.

Applicants must be full-time South Carolina residents and all entries must be typed or computer printed on 8 ½ X 11 paper. There is no restriction to form or content. Postmark deadline is December 1, 2012. Manuscripts will not be returned.

To apply, send two paper copies of manuscript with separate cover sheet. Each manuscript must consist of 6-10 pages of unpublished poems, with no more than one poem per page. The poet’s name must not appear on any of the manuscript pages. Unfortunately, we are not able to accept electronic submissions. Each cover sheet must contain the poet’s name and contact information (USPS mailing address, email address, phone number) and titles of poems. Each submission must include a $15.00 entry fee, payable to South Carolina Academy of Authors.

Send submissions to: Elizabeth Bernardin, 407 Meeting Street, Georgetown, SC 29440.  For questions, please email libbypoet@gmail.com.

The Fellowship winner will be notified by email or telephone and will be invited to the SCAA induction ceremony in Columbia in April, 2013. SCAA Board Members are not eligible to apply.

The judge for the 2012 Nickens Fellowship Competition is Nick Lantz.  Lantz is the author of the poetry collections We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (Graywolf Press, 2010) and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010). He is the recipient of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and the Larry Levis Reading Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and on the nationally syndicated radio program The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. He teaches creative writing at Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop, Queens University’s Low-Residency MFA, and at Sam Houston State University, where he is the poetry editor of the Texas Review.

For more information about the South Carolina Academy of Authors, please visit www.scacademyofauthors.org.