Wynne Huddleston's Poetry Blog

WYNNE HUDDLESTON

is a poet, musician, and teacher with a Master of Music Education degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. She is Secretary of the Mississippi Poetry Society and 2nd Vice-President of the Mississippi Writers Guild. She is also a member of the National Federation of Music Educators (NfMC).

NEWS

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The Death Head Grin Volume Two ebook is out! If you like the dark side or want to get a jump start on Halloween, this is for you! Full of short stories and poetry that will take the reader to more of the dark places that fans of the horror genre love to go. As with the first anthology there are many different, distinct voices found within, and there will be something inside sure to please everyone. Here are the titles of my poems in Death Head Grin Volume Two:

Forbidden Passion
Drowning the Scream of Silence
Lullaby
Averil for Vultures

AWARDS/CONTESTS

2013 Pushcart Nomination for Same Stars, Different Houses  in Deep South Magazine.

1st Place in the Environmental Division of the Grandmother Earth National Contest for “Drilling Disaster,” a poem about the Gulf Oil Spill. Check it out in Grandmother Earth XVII or on Poets for Living Waters, Open Mic section.

In the Mississippi Poetry Society Spring 2013 Festival:

1st Place for “Devil’s Due”

1st Place for “I Can’t Stop Loving You”

3rd Place for “Addicted”

HM for “Autumn Quilt”

In the Mississippi Poetry Society Spring 2012 Festival:

2nd Place for “User and Spouse”

2nd Place for “Sweet, Sunny Summers”

Honorable Mention for “Sound Internal”

Honorable Mention for “The Breath of Time”

In the Mississippi Poetry Society Fall 2011 Festival:

2nd Place in the Clay Anderson Award for “Regret”

3rd Place in the MPS Central Branch Award for “My Eclipse”

HM in the Charles and Dorothy Little Memorial Award

In the Mississippi Poetry Society Spring 2011 Festival:

1st Place in the Myrtle Rae Davis Jones Memorial Award for “Mother’s”

3rd Place in the Poets Anonymous Award for “What Do You Know of Spring”

3rd Place for Dramatic Monologue for “Chopin: Robbing Time”

Honorable Mention in the Charles and Dorothy Little Memorial Award for “Reaching for Light.”

In the Mississippi Poetry Society Fall 2010 Festival:

3rd Place in the Poets Anonymous Award for “Between Us”

Winner of Enchanted Conversation’s Daughters of Air Contest. The poem, Teardrops is online in EC. They now have a new site and name.

POET

Ms. Huddleston’s poetry/prose may be read in:

WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

 Ms. Huddleston attended workshops facilitated by:

• Jeanne Leiby, author and editor of The Southern Review. (Jeanne was killed in a wreck April, 2011. May she rest in piece.)
• Angela Ball, poet and professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, has been published in the Best American Poetry series.
• Irene Latham, author and poetry editor for Birmingham Arts Journal
• Crystal Bowman, author of children books and piano music
• Edna Ellison, Christian speaker and author
• Jo Huddleston, author of fiction and Bible studies
• Billy Field, screenplay writer
• Betty Hassler, editor of Open Windows and Deacon
• Cheryl Wray author of Writing for Magazines: A Beginner’s Guide
• Katie McHugh, Executive Director of Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Regina Brooks, founder and president of Serendipity Literary Agency LLC
• Lauretta Hannon, author of Cracker Queen
• Alan Brown, professor of English at the University of West Alabama and author of seventeen books
• Keith Badowski – “The Bearded Poet” and Co-founder of Brick Road Poetry Press.
• Sarah Campbell, author of award winning children’s books Growing Patterns: The Fibanacci Numbers and Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator.

BOOKMARK

Ms. Huddleston served as Bookmark for Katie McHugh during the MWG 2010 Conference in Vicksburg, MS.

READINGS

• 2009 and 2010 Mississippi Writers Guild Conference in Vicksburg
  Literary Artists On Stage (LAOS)
• 2011 at Jackson, MS (LAOS)
•  Espresyo Soul,  Sage Coffee & Books in Meridian
• MPS Festival Spring 2011 at Gulf Hotel Resort in Ocean Springs
• Clarkdale, MS 100,ooo Poets for Change Festival
• Decatur, MS MWG meetings
• Belhaven University in Jackson, MS Fall 2011 ad Fall 2012
• MPS Festival Spring 2012 at Lake Tiak O’Khata in Louisville, MS.
•  ”The Earth Gives Thanks,” was read on Thankgiving Day on radio station WCJU, Columbia, MS.

Ms. Huddleston obtained a Master’s of Music Education from the University of Southern Mississippi, and has studied graduate level creative writing at the University of West Alabama.

MUSICIAN

She has been an elementary music teacher for 21 years, a piano teacher since high school, and a church musician or choir director since 6th grade. She received superior ratings for piano solo at the Bach Festival and for clarinet duo at Solo & Ensemble, the Meridian Community College Music Award, chorus scholarships to the University of Southern MS, and was a member of the auditioned USM Singers Choir. Her piano club won the State Jr. Federation of Music Clubs’ Loving Cup in 1985. The Meridian Philharmonic Nat’l Federation of Music Clubs won multiple ribbons during her term as President. Ms. Huddleston has had students perform in the Mississippi Elementary State Honor Choir for many years.

Served as Judge for:

• the district Baptist Hymn Festival in Laurel, MS
• National Federation of Jr. Music Club Festivals
• the Colgate Country Showdown Local Finals in Columbia, MS.

Music Education Articles/ideas Published Online:

• Plank Road Publishing’s Music K-8 Magazine “Idea Bank” http://www.musick8.com/html/ideabank.php
• Bulletin Boards for the Music Classroom: http://www.musicbulletinboards.net/
• Music Education Resources Idea Library: http://www.freshpond.net/uploads/users/5/User_5961/MyFiles/index.html

Her original song, “Many More Birthdays” was performed at the 2010 Relay for Life Opening Ceremonies in Forest, MS.

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