Furious Flower Poetry Prizes
Congratulations to Aurielle Marie, winner of the 2021 Furious Flower Poetry Prize!
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Winner: Aurielle MarieAurielle Marie is a Black, Atlanta-born, Queer poet, essayist, and social strategist. She was selected by Fatimah Asghar as the 2019 winner of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award, the 2019 winner of the Los Angeles Review Poetry Award, and the 2019 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer's Retreat Writer in Residence. She's received invitations to fellowships from the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for LGBTQ writers, Tin House, The Watering Hole, VONA Voices, and Kopkind Colony. Aurielle's essays and poems have been featured in or are forthcoming from The Guardian, TriQuarterly, Adroit Journal, Teen Vogue, The Florida Review, VINYL, BOAAT Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Essence, Allure, and the Huffington Post. Aurielle is the winner of the 2020 Cave Canem poetry prize. |
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Honorable Mention: Jennifer BartellJennifer Bartell received the MFA in Poetry from the University of South Carolina. Her poetry and nonfiction has been published in Callaloo, PLUCK!, Blackberry, As/Us, Fall Lines, The Raleigh Review, Jasper Magazine, the museum americana, Limelight, Scalawag |
Finalists: Amanda Bennett, Ashunda Norris
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Judge: Erica Hunt |
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Past Winners
2020
Diamond Forde - Winner
Nathan John - Honorable Mention
2019
Rachelle Parker - Winner
Cynthia Manick - Honorable Mention
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Furious Flower Quarantine Kwansaba Contest
Furious Flower Poetry Contest for emerging creative writers in response to the COVID-19 quarantine.
Turning
Quarantine Kwansaba Winning Poem, 2020
My panic does not move heaven so
I try turning instead; till terror into
verse, plant praise song and patient seeds
for what remains of spring. Breather- full,
deep. Drink salt- sweet to shed when
I weep, but I never wither. Intern;
turn inward, away from fear of still.
Finalist: Glens Redmond, Believed to be the First Black Woman Photographed with a Typewriter, and Sherese Francis, Dream Conducts a Mother Tongue's Memory.
