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Tennessee Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel
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Moore Gray was much loved and admired as a stage actress,
poet, dancer, teacher at Heritage High School in Maryville and, in her
later years, a prolific children's author with over seven children's
books published by Simon & Schuster and Orchard Books.
Gray's struggles with breast cancer were chronicled by Don Williams in the Knoxville News-Sentinel in 1994. She died on June 3, 1995, at 58. In 1996, the Knoxville Writers' Guild established an annual poetry competition in her name. Also in 1996, the Guild dedicated their poetry anthology, All Around Us , to Gray, with a foreward by Don Williams. The anthology is edited by Linda Parsons Marion and Candance W. Reaves. Terry Semple's Scottish ancestry came through the Semples, but his grandfather Semple also was a Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation. Semple was on the Oklahoma Indian Rolls all his life; that heritage, too, was very important to him. Guidelines:The KWG Award for Poetry In memory of the late Knoxville poet and children's author, Libba Moore Gray and of the late Terry Semple. Fee:
$10 for KWG members; $20 for nonmembers. Specific Guidelines: 1. Entry consists of 3 poems; multiple submissions O.K.. 2. See General Guidelines . Make checks payable
to the Knoxville Writers' Guild and send entries: Read
entries from the winners of the 2002 contest.
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Tennessee Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel