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Past Award Winners

  "My connection to NSAL has enabled me to make forward steps in my literary career both thought financial support and through meeting other people in the field.”
  Lorraine Propheter
Fifth Place National Poetry Winner 2003
Central Illinois Chapter


2003 Literature Competition Winners


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The Alice White Reeves Award of $1,000 is presented to Lorraine Propheter (Central Illinois), by Barbara Branscum, national 1st Vice President and President of the Clearwater/Tampa Bay Chapter.








Andrew Cochran (Birmingham) accepts the Donna Paananen Award of $3,500 from Donna's husband, Victor Paananen.






Carrie Preston(Mid-Michigan) receives the Catherine Ann Moore Cavanaugh Award of $5,000 from Mary Elizabeth Young, President of the New Jersey Chapter.









Career Award Chair Doni Lystra presents the Estelle Campbell Award of $6,000 to Misty Harper (Bloomington).








Susanna Childress
(San Antonio) receives the NSAL First Place Award of $10,000 from National President Nancy Brockman.














The five national winners
of the 2003 competition in poetry join with the other contestants, 1983 NSAL First Place Award winner in poetry and 2003 national judge Kim Suzanne Bridgford, Career Award Chair Doni Lystra and National President Nancy Brockman after the Career Awards Banquet at the end of the three day conference in Lexington.