KWLS Announces Scholarship Winners
from left to right: Will Dowd, George Green, and Andrew Alexander
The 2009-2010 winners of the Key West Literary Seminar's three named scholarships have been announced.Will Dowd, a poet and MFA student at New York University with a master's in science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been awarded the Scotti Merrill Memorial Scholarship. A 2006 finalist for The Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Dowd's work has been published in Post Road Magazine, 32 Poems, and The Comstock Review.
George Green, an adjunct instructor at Lehman College whose work appears in The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, is the winner of the Marianne Russo Scholarship. Green is a graduate of Hunter College and The New School, and lives in Manhattan's East Village.
Andrew Alexander, a graduate of Vassar College and the Center for Writers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, has won the Joyce Horton Johnson Fiction Award. A resident of Atlanta, Alexander's work has appeared in The Sun, The Mississippi Review, and The Chicago Quarterly Review, among other publications.
Winners of the Key West Literary Seminar's named scholarships receive full financial support to attend the Seminar and Writers' Workshop Program, and the opportunity to present their work during the Seminar program. The awards also cover travel and lodging expenses, and provide a stipend while in Key West. This year's poetry finalists were judged by special guest judge and New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon. Fiction entries were judged by KWLS 2010 Program Chair Liz Lear and Robert D. Richardson, author of biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
In addition to the named scholarships, KWLS provides limited financial support to teachers, librarians, and writers who would not otherwise be able to attend the Seminar and/or Writers' Workshop Program. In all, more than 50 scholarships were given this year, at a value of nearly $35,000. The program is made possible by endowments established by Joyce Johnson, Peyton Evans and The Rodel Charitable Foundation-Florida, and The Dogwood Foundation; by the ongoing support of Judy Blume's KIDS Fund; and by the KWLS board of directors and the many individuals who support the organization.
Congratulations to all our scholarship recipients!
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