Winner of Inaugural Paul Rice Poetry Broadside Series Contest Announced
The Coastal Carolina English Department is pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Paul Rice Broadside Series contest. The contest was open to current Coastal Carolina students. We received 29 entries, and the high quality of the submissions made the process of judging extremely difficult.
Our final judge, poet Jennifer Grotz of UNC Greensboro, selected "Cheers" by Erin Grauel as the winner. Erin will receive a prize of $50.00 and 25 copies of the broadside, which will be produced by the end of the semester.
Grotz also awarded honorable mention to Annie Silva's "Formerly Angelic" and Krystin Mementowski's "Distilled." In addition, she noted that she was very impressed by the quality of writing she saw in the submissions overall. Everyone who entered the contest should take pride in that.
The "Cheers" broadside will be available in the next few weeks. Those wishing to acquire a copy should contact Dan Albergotti in the Department of English (albergot@coastal.edu, 843-349-2420).
The deadline for the second contest in the Paul Rice series will be announced early in the spring semester.
We wish to thank everyone who participated in the inaugural contest for helping to make it such a success.
