A poem of mine has won first place in poetry in undefined Magazine's inaugural Creative Writing Competition

Undefined Magazine , an arts magazine out of Columbia, South Carolina, congratulates the winners of its first annual Creative Writing Competition. The winning poems and fiction will be published in the Summer Reading issue, which will be released on July 14, 2010.

Here are the winners:

For poetry:
1st place - Susan Laughter Meyers
2nd place - Gilbert Allen
3rd place - Julia Koets

For flash fiction:
1st place - Paul Bowers
2nd place - Phebe Davidson
3rd place - John Purvis

For short story:
1st place - Leslie Haynsworth
2nd place - Gilbert Allen
3rd place - Leslie Dennis

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I'm excited about this news. My poem that won is called "No more than the bird with piercing note," which borrows its title from a line by Sappho. The judge for poetry was Ed Madden, undefined's new poetry editor.