WAM Literary Contest
Thank you to all of the writers who submitted work for WAM's first Literary Contest, which celebrated the relationship between writing and the Museum's collection. We were extremely impressed by the enthusiasm and dedication the writing students have for our collection. We are excited to feature the winning stories of this contest. Below, please find the winners, their biographies and their literary work.
1st Place - Jennifer Freed - Read her poem
Jennifer Freed wrote the original version of this poem for a writing class at WAM with Jim Beschta. She lives in Holden Mass, where she raises her family, works on writing and ceramic sculpture, and volunteers with refugees as an English tutor.
2nd Place - Carole Bramante - Read her story
Carole Bramante, a life-long resident of Massachusetts, lives in Westminster. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Anna Maria College and a Master of Education from Fitchburg State University. After retiring from teaching she enrolled in classes at the Worcester Art Museum, experimenting with short story and novel writing.
3rd Place - Anne Marie Lucci - Read her poem
Anne Marie Lucci is a published poet and longtime freelance writer, journalist and publicist whose poetry and autobiographical prose, as well as articles have appeared numerously in Worcester Magazine, where she was an originally staffer from 1980-1988. Her work also has been published in Sahara - A Journal of new England Poetry for which she was an assistant editor, The Syracuse Review, Omnivore, Genesis Alive, Vox Poetica, The Lancaster Times, and The Worcester Review. She has placed twice in the WCPA Poetry Contest: The Frank O'Hara Prize. She won an honorable mention in the Worcester Magazine Poetry Contest in 1994 and then went on to co-judge that contest in 1995, 1996 and 2007. Since 1997 she has served as Pro-bono Vice President and Publicist of the Worcester County Poetry Association. She founded and hosts the poetry venue The Street Beat, now in its 13th year of poetry programming. She has performed her poetry with song throughout Worcester County as a feature poet, and has performed at First Night Worcester on several occasions. She is also well-known for selling jewelry for twelve years at Macy's and being what she calls: Paid to talk.
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Meet the judge of the contest on November 29th.
What: Reading by Margot Livesey
When: Thursday, November 29th at 5:30pm
Where: Hoche Scofield Room at the Worcester Art Museum
FREE and open to the public.
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