The Jim Simmerman Poetry Prize benefits students of Flagstaff District High Schools. The award is made possible by a generous donation to the Northern Arizona Book Festival, Inc. (NABF) from Kim Holland and the Authors In Schools program she founded. Jim Simmerman was a nationally renowned poet and Regents Professor at Northern Arizona University. He regularly volunteered his time teaching poetry workshops in local high schools over the course of his long career.
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Sixth Annual Jim Simmerman Poetry Prize Winners Announced
The Estate of Jim Simmerman is pleased to announce the winners of the 6th Annual Jim Simmerman Poetry Prize for high school students. Award-winning Yale Younger Poet Katherine Larson selected the prizewinners. The aspiring poets will read their work at the Northern Arizona Book Festival at 10a.m. on Saturday May 19, 2010 at the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff.
The high school students will kick-off a day of readings and book signings from numerous regionally and nationally acclaimed writers. This year’s Northern Arizona Book Festival will include cookbook demos; children book authors; an author/press fair and NAU creative writing faculty; among many other events. Eddie Chuculate, author of Cheyenne Madonna, and Stella Pope Duarte, recently awarded a 2009 American Book Award for her latest book, If I Die in Juárez are the evening headliners for the festival.
The Jim Simmerman Poetry Prize for Poets of Flagstaff District High Schools is made possible by a generous donation from Kim Holland and the Authors In Schools program she founded. Jim Simmerman was a nationally renowned poet and Regents Professor at Northern Arizona University. He often volunteered to teach poetry workshops in local high schools over the course of his long career.
James Jay, literary executor for the estate of Jim Simmerman, would like to thank poet Katherine Larson and the high school teachers who facilitated in the contest.
Jim Simmerman Poetry Prize winners for 2012 include:
1st Place: Sam Kumasaka: Coconino High School
2nd Place: Paulina Jenney: Flagstaff High School
3rd Place: Bertilla Sieben: Flagstaff High School
Finalists (in alphabetical order) include:
Sarah Bosch: Flagstaff High School
Nat Bransky: Flagstaff High School
Katy Christensen: Flagstaff High School
Jessica DuPerre: Coconino High School
Demi Schmieder: Coconino High School
Sarah Vining: Flagstaff High School
We are not currently accepting poems for consideration for the Annual Jim Simmerman Poetry Prize for Poets of Flagstaff District High Schools.
Guidelines for submission:
- Send up to four pages of poetry, any style or subject matter.
- All poems must be typed, single-spaced is preferred.
- On each poem include contact information: name, phone, email, name of school, name of teacher.
- All poems must be the original writing of the poet.
Please send poems to:
Northern Arizona Book Festival, PO Box 1871, Flagstaff, AZ 86002, Attn: Simmerman Prize
The first place winner will receive $250. Second place will receive $150. Third place will receive $100. All prize winners and honorable mention poets will be invited to read at the Northern Arizona Book Festival on the morning of May 19, 2012 at the Coconino Center for the Arts.
Best of luck to all!
James Jay, Literary Executor
Estate of Jim Simmerman
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See a list of past winners of the Simmerman Prize.