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Sally Buckner judged the
Frances W. Phillips Award
(for poems about the environment by students in grades 3 to 8).
Buckner's poetry and fiction has appeared in publications as varied as Southern Poetry
Review, Christian Century, and Woman's Day, and in the collection
Strawberry Harvest. She has edited two anthologies: Our Words, Our Ways,
used in schools to accompany eighth-grade studies of state history; and Word and Witness:
100 Years of North Carolina Poetry. Buckner has been honored with numerous awards for
her many contributions to the state's literary community.
Steve Katz judged the
Mary Chilton Award
(for poems by students in grades 6 to 8).
Professor of English at North Carolina State University, Katz has published poems in
Southern Poetry Review, Pembroke Magazine, The News and Observer,
Obsidian, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and many other journals.
He also teaches poetry writing in the Young Writers Workshop at NCSU.
Lenard D. Moore judged the
Lyman Haiku Award
(for students in grades 9 through undergraduate).
Moore has received three Haiku Museum of Tokyo Awards (2003, 1994, and 1983), the 1992
First Prize Traditional Haiku Award from the Mainichi Daily News (Tokyo), and
the 1997 Margaret Walker Creative Writing Award. One of his poetry collections,
Forever Home, was published by St. Andrews College Press in 1992. Moore's
work has been published in Essence, Poetry Canada Review, Callaloo,
Agni, African American Review, and other prominent journals. He teaches
English, Humanities, and World Literature at Shaw University.
Ruth Moose judged the
Sherry Pruitt Award
(for students in grades 9 through undergraduate).
Moose has been a member of the creative writing faculty of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill for almost ten years She has published four collections of poetry, most
recently Making the Bed and Smith Grove. Her poems have appeared in Southern
Review, Yankee, Prairie Schooner, Southwestern Review, Tar River
Poetry, and other journals. She is poetry editor for The Village Rambler, published
in Chapel Hill.
Barbara Presnell judged the
Travis Tuck Jordan Award
(for poems by students in grades 3 to 5),
A poet and writer who lives in Lexington, Presnell has written four books of poetry:
Snake Dreams; Unravelings; Los Hijos, poems set in Galeana, Nuevo Leon,
Mexico; and Sherry’s Prayer, about the textile industry. Sherry's Prayer won
the 2004 Linda Flowers Prize from the North Carolina Humanities Council and was published by
the council this spring. Presnell has worked for many years as a poet-in-the-schools, and
currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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