Brockman-Campbell Book Award

Endowed by the families of Christine Sloan and Mary Belle Campbell

Postmark Deadline: May 1, 2012

Eligibility

• The contest is open to poets who published a book-length volume of poetry in 2011.
• Entrants must be native-born North Carolinians or current residents who have lived in the state for at least three years at the time of publication.
• An entry must be a first edition by a single author. It must contain 20 or more pages of poetry, and it must have a 2011 copyright date.

Awards

• A cash prize of $200 will be presented to one winner only.
• The winner will be invited to read at the fall meeting of the NCPS.

Submissions

• Each submission should include:
  1. one copy of the book
  2. a biographical sketch of the author
  3. a stamped postcard for acknowledging receipt of the submission
  4. your email address
  5. a business-sized SASE for announcement of the winner.

Entry fee

• Members of the Poetry Society pay no entry fee.
• The fee for non-members is $10. (Make checks payable to the North Carolina Poetry Society.)

Mail contest entries to:

Jo Taylor
7232 Ridgeline Drive
Raleigh 27613

Any questions? E-mail Jo Taylor — jogreason@bellsouth.net

Contest Judge

• The name of the 2011 book contest judge will be posted here after the contest deadline, along with a brief biographical sketch.
• The NCPS thanks Diane Gilliam for judging the 2010 book contest.

Diane Gilliam was born and grew up in Columbus, Ohio, but her parents were part of the Appalachian out-migration–her father from Johnson County in eastern Kentucky, her mother from Mingo County, West Virginia.  Her most recent book is Kettle Bottom, a collection of poems written in the voices of people living in the coal camps at the time of the 1920-21 West Virginia mine wars, from Perugia Press (2004).   Kettle Bottom has received many awards: chosen by Smith College as the common reader for the incoming class of 2005; winner of the Ohioana Library Association Book of the Year Award in Poetry 2005; a Pushcart Prize, and an American Booksellers Association Book Sense Pick for the Top Ten Poetry Books of 2005. Gilliam is the winner of the 2008 Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature. In 2008 an audio version of Kettle Bottom was produced by Kate Long for West Virginia Public Radio. 

In addition to Kettle Bottom, Gilliam’s books include Recipe for Blackberry Cake, in the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series from Kent State University Press (1999), and One of Everything, from The Cleveland State University Poetry Center (2003).  In 2003 she was recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.  Gilliam has a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Ohio State University and an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.  She has taught creative writing at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and at various regional writing workshops including the Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, Kentucky, and the Highland Summer Workshop at Radford University in Virginia.

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Previous Judges:
2010: David Romtvedt