We are thrilled to announce that Ellene Glenn Moore is the winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, judged by Richard Blanco, for her book HOW BLOOD WORKS. Ellene will receive $2500 and a one-week fellowship to lead a creative writing workshop at 91²Ö¿â in the fall of 2021. She will also give a reading with prize judge Richard Blanco. Please join us to congratulate Ellene!
is a writer living in Philadelphia. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Florida International University and her BA in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. Ellene has been the recipient of a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowship in Poetry, a scholarship to the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and a residency at The Studios of Key West. Her poetry, lyric non-fiction, and critical work has appeared in Lake Effect, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Best New Poets, Fjords Review, Poetry Northwest, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Her chapbook The Dark Edge of the Bluff (Green Writers Press, 2017) was runner-up for The Hopper Prize for Young Poets.
This prize is offered annually to a poet who has not previously published a full-length collection of poems. The prize awards the winner with $2,500 and publication of their first full-length book of poetry by the 91²Ö¿â Press. The winner and the competition's judge will give a reading together on the 91²Ö¿â campus.
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