2008 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: Roman Titov for "Move"
Second Prize: (tie) Marissa Stoll for "Spider Bites"
Linda Ogechi Igbokwe for "I Am Trying"
Third Prize: Linda Ogechi Igbokwe for "Saying I Will Not Lose"
Entrants must be current Farmingdale students.
Interested students should submit 1-5 poems to Dr. Margery Brown by emailing them as Word or RTF attachments no later than April 17, 2009. Email: brownml@farmingdale.edu
Poems must be typed, one to a page, with no identification on individual poems. The author's name, social security number, phone number, and list of titles should be typed on a cover page included with the entry.
Individual poems may not be longer than 50 lines.
Poems will not be returned, so entrants should be careful to keep copies.
Note: All entries will be reviewed by a panel composed of two current members of the Farmingdale student body and three members of the English/Humanities faculty.
2007 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: Marissa Helene Stoll for "The Life and Times of Burnt Toast Boy"
Second Prize (three-way tie): Nana Acheampang for "Periodic Nation"
Marissa Helene Stoll for "The Royal Opiates"
Marissa Helene Stoll for "Game Show Suicide"
Third Prize: Margaux Milano for "Smile"
2006 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: Sarah Allahverdi for "The Slower Process"
Second Prize: Louisa Petsitis for "The Devil's in the House"
Third Prize: Louisa Petsitis for "Second Place to Lady Heroin"
2005 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: XiaoRu (Vicky) Li for "The FIrst"
Second Prize: Natali Altenburg for "What Death Does"
Third Prize:
Ryan Baker for "Two Glasses"
2004 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: Hope Terris for "Easter Morning (for my father)"
Second Prize: Hope Terris for "On Pinelawn Road"
Third Prize (three-way tie):
Cheri Locker for "Wartime Symphony"
Ryan Baker for "The Walk"
Daniel Carmel for "All is Grey"
2003 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: Annie Sidden for "Paradise"
Second Prize: Sarah Allahverde for "Reflections of a Car Accident"
Third Prize: Prashant Rane for Price of Freedom"
2002 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: Selina Zydor for "Sense"
Second Prize: Selina Zydor for "Slide Show"
Third Prize: Chris Parrucci for "Daddy Drinks"
2001 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: Tie: Joshua Howell for "Rain" and Anthony D'Aries for "I Know You Want What I Have"
Second Prize: Richard Pollard for "The Cigarette"
Third Prize: Richard Pollard for "Dirge
2000 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: Nneka McPherson for "Heal thyself"
Second Prize: Kathleen McNulty for "Blackout"
Third Prize: Ross Mannering for "The Sharpest Knife"
1999 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: Anthony M. Bufalino, Jr. for "Speak Easy"
Second Prize: Anthony M. Bufalino, Jr. for "Colors of Sound"
Third Prize: Debra French for "Inside Out"
1998 Raynor Wallace Award Winners:
First Prize: Maryann Micillo for "The Feather Hat"
Second Prize: Johnny James Hines III for "Creation"
Third Prize: Johnny James Hines III for "Music and the Poet"
First Prize: Richard Verley for "Easy Streets"
Second Prize: Melissa Jackson for "Daddy's Eyes"
Third Prize: Duron Jones for "Fallen Star"
Return to Farmingdale State College Visiting Writers Program Home Page
Return to Farmingdale State College Home Page
Last Updated: November 12, 2008