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THE SIDNEY LANIER POETRY COMPETITION The annual Sidney Lanier Award Poetry Competition, sponsored by the Lanier Library, is open to poets from both North and South Carolina whose works have not previously been published in book form. Check this website in late Fall of 2010 for information about the 2011 Sidney Lanier Award Poetry competition. Click here for the 2011 competition application (pdf). Eligibility: Poets residing in either North Carolina or South Carolina whose poems have not previously been published in book form, except for staff and members of the Board and the Poetry Award Committee of Lanier Library, Tryon, North Carolina. The Library reserves the right to publish winning poems and other exceptional entries to this competition in a future anthology. Winners of the 2010 Sidney Lanier Poetry Award Competition: On Sunday April 11, 2010 the winners of The Sidney Lanier Poetry Award competition were announced at the Lanier Library by the competition's judge, Cathy Smith Bowers, North Carolina Poet Laureate. From the poems (from all over the Carolinas) that were entered in the competition, Ms Bowers selected three winners and thirteen honorably mentioned poems in the main competition and three winners in the student category. The winners of the student competition were #1- Latent, Ash Gray, Polk County High School, Columbus, NC #2 - Of a Time on Kiowa, Soroush Shahbazi, Greensboro, NC #3 - A Story Goes, Soroush Shahbazi, Greenboro, NC The winners of the adult competition were
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