Linda Annas Ferguson

LITERARY RESUME

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PUBLICATIONS

Dirt Sandwich, Press 53 (full-length poetry book)

Bird Missing from One Shoulder, WordTech Editions (full-length poetry book)

Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, Finishing Line Press (poetry chapbook)

Last Chance to Be Lost, Kentucky Writers’ Coalition (poetry chapbook)

It’s Hard to Hate a Broken Thing, University of SC, Aiken (poetry chapbook)

 

LITERARY WORK IN ARCHIVAL COLLECTION

Special Collections and Archives Department of the James B. Duke Library:

South Carolina Poetry Archives, Furman University

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Southern Artistry Award: Southern Artistry Federation & CAMT, Carnegie Mellon

Next Generation Indie Book Award: Finalist for Dirt Sandwich 2010

John Ciardi Book Prize in Poetry, Bookmark Press, Finalist: (Judged by Christopher Buckley)

Texas Review Chapbook Competition: First Runner-up: (Judged by R.S. Gwynn)

Logan House Press Book Prize Finalist

White Eagle Coffee Store Press Finalist: (Judged by John Surowiecki)

Oscar Arnold Young Book Award: 2007 Finalist (Judged by Stephen Gardner, USC Aiken)

Oscar Arnold Young Book Award: 2008 Finalist: (Judged by Sally Keith, George Mason Univ.)

Brockman-Campbell Poetry Book Award: 2008 Finalist: (Judged by Kwame Dawes)

Kentucky Writers’ Coalition 2003 Chapbook Award and publication

Palanquin Press 2002 Chapbook Award and publication, University of South Carolina Aiken

 

FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

Poetry Fellow: South Carolina Arts Commission (Selected by David Trinidad) 2004-2005

Poetry Fellow: South Carolina Academy of Authors (1999)

 

NOMINATIONS FOR AWARDS

Pushcart Prize by Press 53

Pushcart Prize by Wild Goose Poetry Review     

Best of the Net

 

RESIDENCIES

Poet-in-Residence: Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC (past) Teaching position

 

SPECIAL ONLINE PUBLICATION:  Verse Daily

ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATIONS

Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose About Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University)

Seeking: Prose and Poetry Inspired by Art (University of SC Press)

South Carolina Voices: Poetry and Prose (Coastal Carolina University Athenaeum Press)

Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005 (Ninety-Six Press, Furman University)

The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina: (Texas Review Press:)

Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows, (Hub City Writers’ Project)

A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry, (Ninety-Six Press, Furman University)

Kakalak: An Anthology of Carolina Poets

Eating Her Wedding Dress: (Ragged Sky Press, Princeton, NJ)

Award Winning Poems: (North Carolina Poetry Society)

After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events: (Sante Lucia Books)

Broken Circles: A gathering of poems for hunger (Cave Moon Press)

Solo Café: Vol 2: Teachers and Students: (Solo Press)

75th Anniversary Anthology of the Poetry Society of Georgia, Savannah, Georgia

Wild Goose Poetry Review

Crucible Writer’s Competition Anthology, Barton College, Wilson NC

Poets and Painters: Gibbes Museum of Art, Educator’s Guide

Poets and Painter’s 10th Anniversary Edition, Gibbes Museum of Art

Spirit of Place: Poetry Society of SC and Gibbes Museum of Art

Pirene’s Fountain: Glass Lyre Press

 

POSITIONS HELD

Board of Directors: South Carolina Academy of Authors (past)

Board of Directors:  Poetry Society of SC (past)

Executive Board Member: Lincolnton Arts Council, Lincolnton, NC (past)

Steering Committee: Lenoir Rhyne University Visiting Writer’s Series (past)

North Carolina Poetry Society: Poetry Competition Chair (past)

 

READINGS AND BOOK SIGNINGS: NOTABLE

Library of Congress: Poetry at Noon Series, Washington, DC

South Carolina Book Festival, Panel, Reading, Signing: (4 years)

South Carolina Book Festival: Moderator

South Carolina Poetry Initiative Summit, University of SC, Columbia SC

Piccolo Spoleto Festival Sundown Poetry Series, Charleston, SC (2 years)

 

WORKSHOPS AND PANELS: PRESENTER

SC Poetry Initiative, University of SC: Workshop: Southern Voices & Southern Vision:

Isothermal Community College, First Annual Writer’s Workshop, Spindale, NC

SC Poetry Initiative Summit: University of SC:  Panel, Reading, Speaker

Charleston Library Workshop: “From Desk Drawer to Print”

Charleston Library: Workshop: “A Step in the Write Direction”

 

EDUCATIONAL MENTOR

Charleston School of the Arts: Poetry Mentor: (5 years)

 

 

UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE: VISITING WRITER

Contemporary Literature, Upper Division Course, Furman University

Montgomery College, Germantown, Maryland

Towson University, Towson, Maryland

 

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE READINGS

Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland

College of Charleston, SC: Anthology reading

Montgomery College, Germantown, Maryland

Waccamaw Higher Education Center, Coastal Carolina University, Litchfield, SC\

University of SC: McMaster’s Art Gallery: Supporting reader

Catawba College, Salisbury NC: Poetry Council Reading

 

SOUTH CAROLINA READINGS AND SIGNINGS

Pure Poetry: South Carolina Book Festival, Columbia, SC

Wits End Poetry Series, Greenville, SC

Leopard Forest Coffee Company: Poets in the Forest, Travelers Rest, SC

Blue Heron Reading Series, Litchfield, SC

Lowcountry Women Authors: Mt Pleasant, SC (3 years)

Poetry of Place, with Marjory Wentworth Phoebe Pember House, Charleston, SC

LILA: (Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts: National Poetry Month)

 

BOOKSTORE READINGS AND SIGNINGS

Barnes & Noble, Mt Pleasant, SC

Barnes & Noble, West Ashley, Charleston, SC

Barnes & Noble, Columbia, SC

Barnes & Noble, Charlotte, NC: Kakalak Anthology Reading

Joseph Beth Booksellers, Charlotte NC

McIntyre Fine Books, Ferrington Village, Pittsboro NC

Malaprop’s Bookstore: Poetrio, Asheville, NC

Open Book, Greenville, SC

           

SOCIAL CAUSE READINGS & SIGNINGS

Writers Reading, Christian Family Y, Tribute to 911, Charleston, SC

LGLA’s 1st Annual Festival of Arts, Charleston, SC (Lowcountry Aids Services)

National Association for Poetry Therapy “At the Crossroads of Humanity & Healing”

           

POETRY EXHIBITS

“Archives of Babel”

Special Collections and Archives Department, James B. Duke Library:

South Carolina Poetry Archives, Furman University

 

“Vision and Voice” Weymouth Center for the Creative Arts and Humanities: Southern Pines, NC