The Lyre

09/18/2022

2nd half of September happenings on campus

04/19/2022

Thank you to everyone who participated and to everyone who came out to support the new issue of The Lyre, which also features work from Prof Neill Clegg and Dr. Paul Leslie!

04/18/2022

Congratulations to the winners and finalists in The Lyre’s first inaugural poetry contest!

Current students:
(Tie) 1st Place: “Open Sky” by Vincent Moody

(Tie) 1st Place: “Sweatpants and a T-shirt” by Jackie Hines

2nd Place: “leave” by Liya Veale

3rd Place: “Duplex” by John O’Shields

Honorable Mention: “Gravity Is a Blessing” by Jackie Hines

Non-current student awards:
1st Place: “Equinox” by Jessica Quah

2nd Place: “My Country Tis of Thee” by Tess Perdue

3rd Place: “A November Homecoming in Carolina” by Matthew Johnson

Honorable Mention: “Transmission” by Jessica Quah

Finalists:
With nearly 50 poems entered, and only 12 sent to our final judge, we also wanted to recognize this year’s other finalists:
Breanna Adamick, Emily Gearhart, Erica Smith, Kayla Tisdale, and Myia Wynn.

Thanks to everyone for helping to make our inaugural poetry contest a success!

04/16/2022

Please join us on Showcase Day, Tuesday 4/19, at 3pm in Lea Center for a reading from and reception for the new issue of The Lyre!
Beautiful cover art (“Tranquil”) by

02/28/2022

Join us in congratulating who received Honorable Mention in Photography/Art from NCCMA!

Amos Brady received Honorable Mention for his pair of photographs “Branching Out” and “Local Jungle” in the 2020-21 edition of The Lyre.

11/16/2021

Lyre poetry prize finalists are currently with our judge, poet and editor Crystal Simone Smith. Winners (and finalists) will be announced soon!
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Crystal Simone Smith is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Routes Home, Finishing Line Press (2013) and Running Music, Longleaf Press (2014). She is also the author of Wildflowers: Haiku, Senryu, and Haibun (2016). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including: Callaloo, Ni**od, Barrow Street, Obsidian II: Literature in the African Diaspora, African American Review, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. An alumna of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and Yale Summer Writers Conference, she holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and is Assistant Professor of English at St. Augustine’s University. She is also the Managing Editor of Backbone Press.

10/29/2021

Only a few days left to enter.
Deadline: Monday Nov. 1
Students, staff, alums, send us your poems!

10/20/2021

ATTN: Students, Staff, Alumni
Enter to win!

10/18/2021

Enter to win! GC students, staff, alumni + family/friends as well as members of GSO community are all eligible to enter

09/20/2021