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USF Poets Sweep Top Spots for Georgia Poetry Prize

Chelsea Dingman

The Creative Writing Program at USF is pleased to congratulate Chelsea Dingman, a poet and alumnae of USF's MFA program, for winning the 2018 Georgia Poetry Prize. Her collection “Through A Small Ghost” will be published by the University of Georgia press in February of 2020. More information about Dingman can be found on her website and more information about the prize can be found on the University of Georgia Press website.

Hearty congratulations also go to USF creative writing undergrad alum Andrew Hemmert, who was the runner-up for this prestigious prize. His manuscript is “Sawgrass Sky.”

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