My vision as poet laureate is to promote poetry activity in the community; to express the beauty of nature with words; to show that, like laughter is good medicine, poetry can be a healing salve for loss and grief; and to dispell the myth that poetry is not accessible for the average person.
January Poetry Contest Open
Call for poetry submissions! Due January 31st.
Winners: October Poetry Contest
Congratulations to Camille Burkley-Wilson and Laura Gunnells Miller!
October Poetry Contest Open
CWG's call for poetry submissions is now open. Send us your best work by Oct. 31st.
Winners: July Poetry contest
Congratulations to CWG's July poetry winners: Sherry Poff, John C. Mannone, and Patricia Hope. Click the link to read their entries.
Ending soon: July Poetry Contest
CWG's call for poetry submissions ends soon. Send us your best work on the theme Showers by July 31st.
July Poetry Contest Open
CWG's call for poetry submissions is now open. Send us your best work by July 31st.
Winners: 3-Way Contest
The Chattanooga Writers' Guild is excited to announce the winners of our recent 3-Way Contest in which writers were challenged to include each of these three words in their entries: rust, cut, and window. The winners whose works are excerpted below are as follows: Alexandria Kelly, Sue Carol Elvin, M.D. (Peggy) Roblyer, Jenna Ziegler, L.B. Blackwell, Sherry Poff, and Chris Wood.
Winner: April 2025 Poetry Contest
Let's congratulate Jenna Ziegler, our April poetry contest winner, whose poems placed first and second with the theme "swan song."
Winners: March 2025 Non-fiction Contest
Congratulations to our winners! CWG's March non-fiction winner is John C. Mannone and runner-up is Brent Weston.
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