South Carolina Young Poets Prize winners (l- r) William Dye, Emily Padget, and Geoffrey Corvi. Richland Northeast High School's Palmetto Center for the Arts Literary Arts students took three of the five prizes in the statewide South Carolina Young Poets Prize competition hosted by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. Overall, 50 poets submitted more than 150 poems.

Senior William Dye won grand prize. Junior Emily Padget won first place. Freshman Geoffrey Corvi won an honorable mention. Barbara Thomson, director of the PCA Literary Arts program, is their teacher.

The winning poems will be published in the next issue of Yemassee, a University of South Carolina literary journal. The award ceremony was held on November 15 at the Columbia Museum of Art.

The three award winners, along with other PCA writers, will read their original

work at the Winter

Evening of P oetry, on December 2 at 7 pm in the Richland Northeast Science Atrium, 7500 Brookfield Road, Columbia.