Brockman-Campbell Book Award

For the winners of the Brockman-Campbell Award, see http://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/brockman-campbell-winners/.

Endowed by the families of Christine Sloan and Mary Belle Campbell

Postmark Deadline: May 1, 2013

Eligibility

• The contest is open to poets who published a book-length volume of poetry in 2012.
• 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 2012 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 2012 book contest judge will be posted here after the contest deadline, along with a brief biographical sketch.
• The NCPS thanks Norbert Krapf for judging the 2011 book contest.

Norbert Krapf was born in 1943 in Jasper, Indiana, a German community. He graduated from Jasper High School and received a B.A. in English from St. Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, IN. He received his M.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame and also his Ph.D. in English and American Literature, with a concentration in American Poetry. He taught at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University 1970-2004, where he is now emeritus Professor of English, was Poet Laureate 2003-2007, and directed the C. W. Post Poetry Center. He twice served in Germany as a Senior Fulbright Professor of American Poetry, at the Universities of Freiburg and Erlangen-Nuremberg. He was also a U.S. Exchange Teacher at West Oxon Technical College, England. In June of 2008, he was appointed to a two-year term as Indiana Poet Laureate. Songs in Sepia and Black and White from Indiana University Press is Norbert Krapf’s twenty-fourth book and ninth full-length poetry collection, released in July 2012. http://www.krapfpoetry.com/

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Previous Judges:
2011: Diane Gilliam
2010: David Romtvedt