Good golly, Miss Molly! PCA writers win three top SC Young Poets prizes

South Carolina Young Poets Prize winners William Dye (left), Emily Padget, and Georffrey Corvi.

Overall, fifty poets submitted more than 150 poems. Senior William Dye won Grand Prize and $100. Junior Emily Padget won First Place and $75. Freshman Geoffrey Corvi won an Honorable Mention and $25. Barbara Thomson, director of the PCA Literary Arts program, is their teacher.

The winning poems will be published in the next issue of Yemassee, a University of South Carolina literary journal. The award ceremony was held on November 15 at the Columbia Museum of Art.

The three award winners, along with other PCA writers, will read their original work at the 'Winter Evening of Poetry,' on December 2 at 7 p.m. in the Richland Northeast Science Atrium, 7500 Brookfield Road, Columbia.

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