I have amazing news – I won the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize for Poetry! I will be reading my poems onstage with Dr. DaMaris Hill, author of “A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing.”
From the Kentucky Women Writers Conference website:
“Every year the Kentucky Women Writers Conference offers three emerging writer awards in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Each winner receives full tuition support for the September conference, enrollment in a workshop, a $300 honorarium, and the opportunity to read her winning manuscript onstage during the conference. The Betty Gabehart Prize honors our good friend, patron, and former director who led the conference during its seminal decade in the 1980s. 2019 WINNERS ANNOUNCED! (please click on this link)”
The prize did not include publication. My winning manuscript was called “How to Ride a Train in the Andes & other poems.”
Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a bilingual poet and translator raised in New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is the winner of the 2021 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award, the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize, and in 2018 was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2022 her poetry manuscript, "Eucalyptus," was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas. The manuscript explores her Sephardic Jewish ancestry and bi-cultural heritage.
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Congratulations, Lupe ~
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Thank you! ❤
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