Sandra Ervin Adams

Author's Bio

Sandra Ervin Adams, who lives near Jacksonville, NC, has had poetry published in anthologies and literary journals. In 2008 she was mentored as an adult student poet in North Carolina’s Gilbert-Chappell Series and taught a poetry workshop at New Bern’s First Literary Symposium. In 2006 she authored a chapbook, Union Point Park Poems. She has been a writer-in-residence three times at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, in Southern Pines, NC. Her second poetry chapbook (2011) is titled, Through a Weymouth Window, and she is working on a poetry book about Swansboro, NC and its people. In 2011 she hosted a Poetry Cafe' at The New Bern-Craven County Public Library and a Poetry Reading at Parks & Recreation on Emerald Isle, NC.

Publications and Prizes

Chapbooks:

Union Point Park Poems (The Publishing Laboratory, 2006)

Anthologies:

New River High Tide (North Carolina Council for the Arts, 2008), Lessons from Our Children (Health Communications Inc., 1999)

Journals:

All Things Girl, Byline, Cairn, Canvass, Jerry Jazz Musician, Penwomanship, Poetic Hours, r.kv.r.y., Raving Dove, Shemom, Tale Spinners, The Lyricist, WRITE ON!!

Prizes:

In 2009 she won Second Place in The Lyricist Statewide Competition, Campbell University, for her poem, "Reminder." In 2009 she won Honorable Mention in the Heart Poetry Award Contest for her poem, "Unclaimed," and in 2011 an Honorable Mention in the same contest for "To An Expat." She also won Second Place for her poem, "Chair," in the Silverarts Competition,Onslow Senior Games.

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Listing last updated: September 6, 2011

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Scotch-Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Jacksonville, NC

Raised in:

Jacksonville, NC