2007 Poetry Contest Winners

• Douglas Freels (traditional subjects)
• Robert Grimes (ecology and nature)

Douglas Freels Winners

Bio’s:

Angela Masterson Jones
Angela Masterson Jones has won, placed, or been a finalist in more than forty writing contest. Her work has been featured in Poetry Anthology, Writer’s Digest, Penumbra, St. Petersburg Times, Sunscripts, Literary Liftoff, Broken Kisses, Wordsmith, Sabal, and elsewhere. Since 2000, Jones has served as contributing editor of Palm Prints, the Literary Journal of South Florida’s Lifelong Writers, and she currently works as copy editor of New Floridian Magazine, The Pepper Tree Magazine, and the PepperTree Press. She is currently a resident of Palmetto, FL.

Matthew Phelps
Matthew Phelps received his B.F.A. in Creative Writing from St. Andrews Presbyterian College of North Carolina. While there, he worked in the Saint Andrews Press and studied with Ezra Pound’s daughter Mary DaRachewiltz in Brunnenburg, Dirof Tirol, Italy. Phelps’ work has appeared in Cairn, Simple Vows, and WordSalad. He also won the 2005 Bunn Chapbook Award for The Music of What Happens.

Ryan G. Van Cleave
Ryan G. Van Cleave’s most recent books include a poetry collection, “The Magical Breasts of Brittney Spears” (Red Hen Press, 2006), and a creative writing textbook, Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft (Allyn & Bacon/Longman, 2006). He teaches creative writing and literature at Clemson University.

Robert Grimes “Good Earth” Winners

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