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Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellowship is sponsored by North Carolina Poetry Society (NCPS) and Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities. This annual residential fellowship is awarded to one North or South Carolina poet in honor of Susan Laughter Meyers. The fellowship includes a week-long writing residency at the Weymouth Center in Southern Pines and a stipend.
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Poetry Fellowship | North Carolina Poetry Society North Carolina Poetry Society We support, promote & celebrate poetry in North Carolina. Gilbert-Chappell Mentor Series Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellowship In honor of the life and work of Susan Laughter Meyers, the North Carolina Poetry Society (NCPS) and Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities co-sponsor this annual residential fellowship for one North or South Carolina writer.
The fellowship winner receives a week-long writing residency at Weymouth Center in Southern Pines and a $500 stipend. Each year the merit-based fellowship is awarded to one North or South Carolina poet. The submission period opens June 1 and closes August 1 .
Applicants must submit a manuscript of five pages of poetry, and all submissions are read blind.
Applicants must be current residents of North or South Carolina and at least 18 years old A Fellowship recipient may not apply for a period of three years following a winning application No NCPS or Friends of Weymouth Board member may enter Fellowship Submission Guidelines All entries must be submitted through Duosuma beginning June 1, 2026 and received before midnight on August 1, 2026.
Submit a single document of 5 pages of poetry (one poem per page for shorter poems), 12 pt. Times New Roman (. doc/docx files only).
Previously published poems are welcomed. In order to preserve anonymity, do not identify them as such in your manuscript. Title your submission using the title of the first poem or some other title that does not include your name or any identifying information.
Manuscripts that contain the poet’s name will be disqualified. Do include author name and contact information in the body of your email. Entry fee is $15.
00 per submission for NCPS members and $20. 00 for non-members. All entry fees are used to support this fellowship.
Fees are not refundable. Submit and pay your entry fee here .
One-week residency at the Weymouth Center in Southern Pines, NC An opportunity to read or present a program at an NCPS meeting Mary Carroll-Hackett is the author of eight collections of poetry: The Real Politics of Lipstick, Animal Soul, If We Could Know Our Bones, The Night I Heard Everything, Trailer Park Oracle, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, Death for Beginners, and (Un)Hinged .
Mary founded and directs the Creative Writing program at Longwood University and teaches with the low-residency MFA faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan. She is at work on a new collection of prose poems.
Andy Fogle is the poetry editor of Salvation South , and the author of Mother Countries , Across From Now , and eight chapbooks of poetry, including two collaborations: Telekinesis , with Hope Smith LeGro, and Arc & Seam: Poems of Farouk Goweda , co-translated with Walid Abdallah. He’s from Virginia Beach, spent years in the D. C.
area, and now lives with his family in upstate New York, teaching high school, and working on a book of poems related to abolitionist John Brown called The Cutting Light. Esteban Rodríguez is the author of the forthcoming collection At the River ( Fonograf Editions 2026), and the essay collection Before the Earth Devours Us (Split/Lip Press 2021).
His work has appeared in New England Review, Seneca Review, Poetry Daily, and American Life in Poetry. He is the interviews editor at the EcoTheo Review, s enior book reviews editor at Tupelo Quarterly, and associate poetry editor at AGNI. With Jennifer De Leon and Ben Black, he coedited To Never Have Risked Our Lives: An AGNI Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing.
He and his wife own and operate Love Letter Coffee in McAllen, Texas. Susan Laughter Meyers (1945-2017) served as President of both the North Carolina Poetry Society and the Poetry Society of South Carolina. A North Carolina native, Susan lived much of her adult life in South Carolina.
She was an award-winning poet and teacher. A welcoming presence to all she encountered, Susan was an enthusiastic supporter of other poets. The North Carolina Poetry Society is grateful to Blue Meyers, husband of Susan Laughter Meyers, for his generous donation of copies of Susan’s posthumous poetry collection, Self-Portrait in the River of D éj à Vu, published in March 2019 by Press 53.
Copies are available for purchase at quarterly NCPS meetings at Weymouth and other NCPS events and by mail here (see Donate). All proceeds from book sales support the Fellowship. About Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities Weymouth Center, a Georgian manor, gardens, and grounds located in Southern Pines, NC, was the home of James Boyd, author of Drums and other novels, and his wife Katharine.
Weymouth hosts writers’ residencies, concerts, readings, and other cultural events and is the home of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. For more information on the Weymouth Center, see www. weymouthcenter.
org . Potential applicants, please note that the Weymouth Center is an historic building and is not ADA complaint. All rooms for writers are on the second floor, accessible only by stairs.
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Moreau, Erica Takacs. 2023 – Rhett Iseman Trull, winner. Runner-Up: Khalisa Rae.
Honorable Mention: R. K. Fauth, Anne Myles, and Celisa Steele.
2022 – Yvette Murray, winner. Finalist: Susan Finch Stevens. Honorable Mention: Chris Abbate and Kimberly Driggers.
2021 – Janet Ford, winner . Finalist: Lisa Hase Jackson. Honorable Mention: Lauren Bullock and Annie Woodford.
2019 – Benjamin Cutler, winner. Finalist: Debra Kaufman. Honorable mention: Kendra Juskus, Jennifer Madriaga, and Celisa Steele.
2018 – Len Lawson, winner. Honorable Mention: Michael Gaspeny and Jeanne Julian . Note: The Fellowship Competition and the Weymouth Center were closed in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns.
Click Below to Submit and Pay Your Entry Fee All entrants to the 2026 Fellowship Contest should use the Duosuma button below to send submissions and pay the entry fee. Your fellowship entry fee will help endow the Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellowship at Weymouth. Donations of $15 of more are eligible to receive a copy of Susan’s posthumous poetry collection, Self-Portrait in the River of Déjà Vu .
Please request this when you submit your application. Utilize the Duosuma button above. Gilbert-Chappell Mentor Series Keep Up with Our Latest News To read the latest issue of our monthly newsletter, click here .
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Current residents of North or South Carolina and at least 18 years old. Applicants must submit a manuscript of five pages of poetry. Previous fellowship recipients may not apply for three years. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $500 stipend and a one-week writing residency. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was August 1, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellowship is funded by North Carolina Poetry Society (NCPS) and Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in South Carolina. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
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