Wilma Dykeman

Photo by Bob Pour is taken from The Iron Mountain Review
[Emory & Henry College], Ed. John Lang, 3 (2). 

Part of the Knoxville Writers' Guild mission is "to promote writing and creativity in the wider community through education, publication, and sponsorship of writing-related events."  Beginning in 2002, we have added another goal:  to begin a tradition of honoring local writers whose career achievements deserve the recognition of the wider community that is the Knoxville metropolitan area and our region as a whole.  

Please join the Guild in applauding famed East Tennessee and North Carolina author Wilma Dykeman for the myriad achievements of her career. Read more....

In addition to the Career Achievement Award, winners of the KWG's annual contests for short fiction, poetry and essays will be announced. This awards program will feature a cash bar, dinner buffet, music  by the Rocky Wynder group as well as appearances by TV personality Edye Ellis, News-Sentinel columnist Don Williams, area writers and poets Laura Still, Marybeth Boyanton, Judy Loest and others.

The event is scheduled to begin with a social hour at 6:30 p.m. Saturday April 24 at the Holston Hills Country Club. Tickets are $15 each, except for students, who pay only $10. An hour of dancing and socializing will follow the awards ceremony. To reserve seats, make checks payable to KWG and mail them to Tickets at PO Box 10326, Knoxville, TN 37939. Be sure to include your phone number and address. For more information, email eunicehat@aol.com . Type Tickets in the subject field.

• Directions to the Gala.

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Tennessee Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel

Libba Moore Gray Poetry Prize

• 1st Prize -  Linda Parsons
• 2nd Prize -  Kelly Falzone
• 3rd Prize -   Connie Jordan Green

Leslie Garrett Fiction Contest 

• 1st Prize -  Laura A. Hoffer
• 2nd Prize - Sarah E. Wright
• 3rd Prize -  Lones Seiber

Young Writers' Prize in Poetry 

• 1st Prize -   Emily MItchell, Oak Ridge High School
• 2nd Prize -  Cayla Stephenson, Clinton High School
• 3rd Prize -   Natalie Ricker, Morristown-Hamblen West High

Essay Contest 

• 1st Prize -  Jeremy Lloyd
• 2nd Prize -  Doris Gove
• 3rd Prize -   Ann Furr

Robert Burns Poetry Award: Terry Semple Memorial Prize - 2003

(click to read these winning poems)  

• 1st Prize - Frank Jamison - "My Mind Wanders"  
• Award of Excellence - Connie Jordan Green - "One Moment Remembered "  
• Award of Excellence  - Jo Ann Pantanizopoulos - "Sunday Afternoon" 
• The Scottish Society of  Knoxville Award for a Poem Reflecting Celtic Heritage  -  Chuck Bowers   "Oi'm Scotch Irish; Why d' ye ask?"
  
    See Contest Guidelines for more information.

See past Career Achievement Awards