Each year, the Kentucky Women Writers Conference offers opportunities for both emerging and established voices to be singled out and cheered on by our community.
This year, we are pleased to again present the Betty Gabehart Prize (see below for information) and also the Gypsy Slam Poetry Prize. Click here for more information on the Gypsy Slam Poetry Prize.
The Gabehart Prize is our way of honoring our good friend, patron, and long-time director who took the decade of the 1980s to show us all how it's done. Three prizes are awarded, in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Each winner receives $100, two 2-day passes, and the opportunity to read her winning manuscript at the conference.
Click here to review the Gabehart Prize Guidelines.
Click here to view and fill out the Gabehart Prize Entry Form.
Congratulations to our 2007 winners!
Kate Buckley, Laguna Beach, California, for "Dead Horse Trail," (poetry)
Donna McClanahan, Irvine, Kentucky, for "Blackberries" (creative nonfiction)
Bev Olert, Paris, Kentucky, for "Unbroken Chain" (fiction)
Come to a place where the skylines move like creek-beds, where people understand craft as a way of life. One weekend the best women artists from around the world venture to this place to exchange ideas, process, performance—calling us to newly imagine what it means to be a writer.
