Methodist University - Southern Writers Symposium

The 22nd Southern Writers Symposium:
March 17, 2012

Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes, winner of the 2010 Longleaf Press Poetry Chapbook Contest for her collection Everyday Chica, mingles with Dr. Diane White-Oyler (Fayetteville State University) and Dr. Arnold Odio (Albany State University).

Created in 1982, the Methodist University Southern Writers Symposium is designed to encourage scholarship on southern literature and culture, as well as to celebrate the writings of contemporary southern authors.

The next Symposium will be held on March 17, 2012. Guidelines for the emerging writers contest are posted below, and additional information will be posted as it becomes available.

For more information, contact Brenda Jernigan at (910) 630-7454 or

The 22nd Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Contest

LaTasha R. Jones reading poetry during the open mic

Emerging Writers: Poetry Finalists

Claudette Cohen
Connie Jordan Green
Kathryn Locey
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
Carol Louise Munn

Emerging Writers: Fiction Finalists

Claudette Cohen
Julie Davis
M. A. Tuohy
Carolyn Cone Weaver
Susan Beckham Zurenda

General Information