Story Institute 2009, Spring Poetry Contest Winner Press Release

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STORY INSTITUTE SPRING 2009 POETRY CONTEST AWARDS

NASHVILLE, TN – April 21, 2009 – Story Institute, your online and in-print source for imagining, enhancing, and growing stories, is proud to announce the winners of its Spring, 2009 United States poetry contest.
All first and second place winners will be featured in upcoming Story Institute RamblingVerser podcasts and newsletters. Along with the winning poems, entries from selected poets will appear in an upcoming anthology released at the end of 2009.

Story Institute contests have created excitement within the writing community and inspired excellent entries from writers across the U.S. Each verser/poet expresses passion within their poems and applicable websites.

The First Place winner is:

E.D. Arrington for “An Ending of a Similar Kind”

The Second Place winners are:

Suzanne Grenoble for “Core”
Jamie Lynn Waters for “Bitter Awareness”
Joy Sheppard for “Cole Ridge Poem”

All winners receive gift certificates from leading bookstores, a feature in RamblingVerses, Story Institute’s Newsletter, publication in an upcoming Story Institute anthology, and other prizes.

The First Place, Spring 2009 winner, E.D. Arrington, along with the winner of the Fall 2008 contest, Jill Eisnaugle, will receive additional pages within the anthology to share more poems demonstrating their dedication to writing, creativity, and storytelling.

About Story Institute:
Since its basic beginnings in 2002 with Timeless Tales, Story Institute has grown to inspire, enhance, and grow your stories personally and professionally while helping share your success in print, online, and in person. Through short story and poetry topics, storylines, novel ideas, and contests, Story Institute encourages and assists the writer in most of us and the imagination in all of us.

Through Integrity, Ingenuity, Inspiration, Influence, Impact, and Excellence, Story Institute strives to:

  • Evoke emotion within our customers that make connections to our communities
  • Engage our customers, their families, and clients in active tales that connect their emotions to past knowledge and experiences.
  • Empower our partners to use their new knowledge while growing their families, organizations, and stories into a world of their own.

Contact:
John E. Murray, III, Chief Story Symphonizer, Story Institute
615-431-9748
ramblingverser@storyinstitute.com

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