NCLR calls for poetry submissions for Applewhite Prize
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Contributed Photo)
The North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR) is now accepting submissions for the 2019 Applewhite Poetry Prize competition. The first-place winner will receive $250, and the poem will be published in NCLR 2020. Finalists will also be considered for publication in the 2020 print and online issues. The submission period is March 15 through April 30.
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke will be the 2019 competition final judge. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the American Book Award, the 2015 Wordcrafter of the Year Award, and was chosen by Juan Filipe Herrera for the 2016 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow. She spent part of her childhood in North Carolina, where she came of age working tobacco fields in Willow Springs. After attending North Carolina State University, Hedge Coke obtained her associate’s degree in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and earned a master’s degree in poetry from Vermont College. Her works include “Burn,” “Streaming,” “Blood Run,” “Off-Season City Pipe,” “Dog Road Woman,” and “The Year of the Rat.” For samples of Hedge Coke’s poetry visit www.hedgecoke.com.
The theme of NCLR’s 2020 special feature section will be North Carolina expatriate writers like Hedge Coke, who will be interviewed for the issue by ECU poet Amber Flora Thomas. Hedge Coke’s poetry has appeared in NCLR 2004 and 2011, and the latter issue includes an essay on North Carolina environmental writing featuring Hedge Coke, among others.
Submissions for the Applewhite Poetry Prize are welcome on any theme, from any writer with a connection to the Tar Heel State. There is no submission fee, but poets must be NCLR subscribers to submit. For more information and submission guidelines, visit http://www.nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/applewhite-guidelines.html.
For over a quarter century, the North Carolina Literary Review has been dedicated to promoting “the rich literary history and culture of the Old North State.” Winners of the Applewhite Prize have ranged from poets with multiple published collections, like the 2018 winner, Catherine Carter, to poets in the first years of their career, like 2017’s Christina Clark. Typically, poems by about two dozen finalists are also published.
To subscribe to NCLR, visit www.nclr.ecu.edu/submissions.
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