The 2019 Porter Fleming Literary Competition Award Winners
AUGUSTA, GA (APRIL 2, 2019)—The winners of the 2019 Porter Fleming Literary Competition have been announced by the Morris Museum of Art. They are:
FICTION
First Place: Pastor Polar, by Frank Honeycutt, Walhalla, South Carolina
Second Place:Elsie ‘Peaches’ Boulware, Age 69,by Jon Tuttle, Florence, South Carolina
Third Place:Summertimeby William Phillips, Jr., Augusta, Georgia.
Honorable Mention:Surely Notby Alexander Lee, Nashville, Tennessee
Judge: Matthew Neil Null is a novelist (Honey from the Lion) and short story writer. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a winner of the O. Henry Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize, and the Joseph Brodksy Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. After a two-year residency at the American Academy in Rome, he is on the English Department faculty at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
NON-FICTION
First Place: An Artist’s Manifesto: A Conversation with Myself, by Marina Brown, Tallahassee, FL
Second Place:Vagabonding with the Parents in a Landlocked Sailboat, by Timothy Brown, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Third Place:Learning to See, by Frances Pearce, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
Judge: Barry Yeoman is an award-winning journalist and radio documentarian who has taught at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and Center for Documentary Studies. Besides doing his own journalism, Barry currently teaches magazine writing to undergraduates at Wake Forest University and narrative non-fiction writing to adults at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. He works with the non-profit Images & Voices of Hope to coach media professionals who are telling stories of community resilience
PLAYS
First Place: Riding the Dog, byChris Garcia, Martinez, Georgia
Second Place: Love, Death and Selfies, Chris Garcia, Martinez Georgia
Third Place: Two Assholes and an Elephant, By Rick Davis, Augusta, Georgia
Judge:Ellen Hemphill, an award-winning poet and playwright, is an Associate Professor in the Theater Studies Department at Duke University. She is also the Artistic Director of Archipelago, a professional theater company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
POETRY
First Place: Umbrella, by Eric Nelson, Asheville, North Carolina
Second Place: Earth As It Is, by Eric Nelson, Asheville, North Carolina
Third Place: Wishbone, by Edward Wilson, Augusta, Georgia
Honorable Mentions:
January From the Window at Sunset, Edward Wilson, Augusta, Georgia
Some Angels, by Edward Wilson, Augusta, Georgia
Money Well Spent, by Edward Wilson, Augusta, Georgia
Me and the Moon, by Edward Wilson, Augusta, Georgia
29 December, by Edward Wilson, Augusta, Georgia
Mr. Potato, by Edward Wilson, Augusta, Georgia
Once We Had A Daughter, by Dannye Powell, Charlotte, North Carolina
Call and Response, byPat Keller, Hawkinsville, Georgia
Columbia to Pawleys, After the Hurricane, by Dale Bailes, Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Human Resources, by Jo Angela Edwins, Florence, South Carolina
Cardboard Boxes, by James Hill, Aiken, South Carolina
Our Hands Were Once Webbed,by Valerie Nieman, Greensboro, North Carolina
Late Shift, by Valerie Nieman, Greensboro, North Carolina
The Bridal Couple, by Gloria Greenbaum, Augusta, Georgia
The Dove, by Joseph Kitchens, Jasper, Georgia
War Stories from the Other Side, by Roberta George, Valdosta, Georgia
Judge Alan Shapiro, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a distinguished American poet. He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, including Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and Dead Alive and Busy, as well as two memoirs,Vigil and The Last Happy Occasion.
Awards Ceremony—Sunday, April 7, 2:00 p.m.
An awards ceremony and reception honoring the 2019 Porter Fleming Literary Competition award winners at the Morris Museum of Art. First-place winners will read from their entries. Seating is limited: RSVP to 706-828-3800. This event is free and open to the public.
The Porter Fleming Literary Competition, recognizing talented writers who reside in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, was established in 1993 by Shirley Fleming to honor her late father, noted author and artist Berry Fleming. Funded by the Porter Fleming Foundation, which is administered by the Trustees of the Academy of Richmond County, the competition is organized and directed by the Morris Museum of Art. The Porter Fleming Foundation was established by Berry Fleming in 1963 as a memorial to his father, Porter Fleming, a prominent Augustan and one of the city’s leading philanthropists.