CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR AWARDED WRITERS!
Prize Winner: Clare Kramer
Honorable Mention: Eddie Hickerson
Honorable Mention: Preeti Tanwani
Runners Up: Logan Funderburg, Kel Proctor
Honorable Mention: Eddie Hickerson
Honorable Mention: Preeti Tanwani
Runners Up: Logan Funderburg, Kel Proctor
And with thanks to our 2023/34 Judge: Julie Marie Wade
Annette Allen Poetry Prize Judge 2023/24
Dr. Julie Marie Wade
Julie Marie Wade is a member of the creative writing faculty at Florida International University in Miami. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, her collections of poetry and prose include Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires: Essays, Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems, When I Was Straight, Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing, and Skirted. Her collaborative titles include The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, written with Denise Duhamel, and Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, written with Brenda Miller. Wade makes her home in Dania Beach with her spouse Angie Griffin and their two cats. Her newest projects are Fugue: An Aural History (New Michigan Press, 2023), and Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House, 2023), selected by Lia Purpura for the 2022 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Book Prize. Wade is the winner of Anhing Press Prize for Poetry for her manuscript Quick Change Artist, with publication expected in 2025.
2023/24 Prize Committee
Flora K.Schildknecht (current UL doctoral candidate, Humanities) - Chair
Lynda Mercer (UL PhD alum, Humanities) - Communications
Diana Wilder (current UL doctoral student, Humanities) - Treasurer; AHA Coordinator
ANNETTE ALLEN POETRY CELEBRATION 2023
at the 50th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
Prize Winner: Mary Elizabeth PopeHonorable Mention: Rachael Magruder
Honorable Mention: Jennifer Lavery
Annette Allen Poetry Prize Judge 2022/23
Maureen Morehead
Maureen Morehead, 2011-12 KY Poet Laurette, served as judge for the 2022/23 inaugural run of the Annette Allen Poetry Prize. Morehead is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Red Gate (2018), The Melancholy Teacher (2010), and A Sense of Time Left (2003).
2022/23 Prize Committee
Flora K.Schildknecht (current doctoral student) - Chair
Lynda Mercer (alum) - Communications
Diana Wilder (current doctoral student) - Treasurer
Robert Eric Shoemaker (Poetry Foundation Digital Archive Editor, alum) - Advisor
Brandon Harwood (alum) - Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society Liaison
The Annette Allen Poetry Prize is made possible through generous donations from alumni of the Humanities PhD Program at the University of Louisville and friends of Annette Allen.
