Poetry Contest

Poetry Contest Winners and Finalists Announced:

Our own Leigh Grant was awarded first prize in Greenwich Pen Women’s poetry contest for her poem “The Place that You Found”. NLAPW members in 30 branches submitted 178 poems. Judges for the contest were Carla Wallach, Op-Ed writer for the New York Times, Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman and Professor Marion White, M.F.A.. Second prizes winners were Marybeth Weston, a member of our branch and Betty Prisendorf. Third prizes went to Josephine Darner and Fletcher Shepp. The poems will appear in Women’s Voices of the 21st Century: Experiences that Shape Women’s Lives, along with line drawings by members of Greenwich Pen Women artists. The book will be published later this spring.

Contest finalists include: