Megan Denton Ray is the winner of the 2019 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize

 

Hub City Press is pleased to announce that the winner of the 4th New Southern Voices Poetry Prize is Megan Denton Ray. The prize for her unpublished manuscript, Mustard, Milk, & Gin, is $1,000 and publication by Hub City Press in Spring 2020. Her manuscript was selected as the winner of the prize by award-winning poet G.C. Waldrep.

Megan Denton Ray received her MFA from Purdue University, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared recently or will soon in Poetry, The Sun, Salt Hill Journal, The Adroit Journal, Passages North, and elsewhere. She currently lives and teaches in Tennessee.

The biennial New Southern Voices Prize is sponsored by Hub City Press of Spartanburg, S.C. It is open to all poets who have either never published a full-length collection of poetry, or who have only published one full-length collection, and who currently reside in and have had residency in one or more of the following states for a minimum of 24 consecutive months: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia.

The previous winner of this prize was Lindsey Alexander for her collection, Rodeo in Reverse which was released by Hub City Press in September 2018.