WRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS
formerly the Austin Writers' League
Literary
Fellows
Literary Fellows for 2003
We are pleased to announce the nine writers who were awarded Fellowships in Literature given by the Writers’ League of Texas with funds from the Texas Commission on the Arts. These writers’ were part of 136 applicants for the 2003/04 Fellowship awards.
| Fiction winners include: | |
| David Rutschman of San Antonio | $3,000 |
| Scott Blackwood of Austin | $2,000 |
| Jackie Kelly of Austin | $1,000 |
| Poetry winners include: | |
| Wendy Barker of San Antonio | $3,000 |
| Jude O’Nym of Austin | $2,000 |
| Robert M. Randolph of San Marcos | $1,000 |
| Creative Non-Fiction winners include: | |
| Jenny Browne of San Antonio | $3,000 |
| Jessica Powers of El Paso | $2,000 |
| Iraj Issac Rahmim of Houston | $1,000 |
Judges this year were Jarret Keene, Sandra Kohler, and Laurie Kutchins.
Keene teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received his Ph.D. in English from Florida State University. He has published numerous short stories, essays and poems in dozens of literary journals including Another Chicago Magazine, Chelsea, New England Review, Texas Review and Utne Reader. He is currently editor for the alternative weekly Las Vegas CityLife and the founding editor of the literary journal, Black Box Recorder.
Sandra Kohler is a poet. She received both her MA and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College and taught in the English Department from 1969-1976. She has taught literature and writing courses at all levels from elementary school to university and adult education. Over the past twenty years, her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Southern Review, Poetry Now, West Branch, The Massachusetts Review, Calyx, The Hawaii Pacific Reviews, Soujourner, Prairie Schooner, The Louisville Review, Tulane Review, The American Poetry Review and other periodicals. Her book, The Ceremonies of Longing, was the winner of the 2002 Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in December 2003.
Laurie Kutchins teaches creative writing at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and at the Taos Summer Writers Conference. She has published two books of poetry: Between Towns from Texas Tech University Press (1993) and The Night Path from BOZ Editions (1997). The Night Path received the inaugural Isabella Gardner Poetry Awards and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her poems have appeared widely in magazine and journals, including Poetry, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review and many other places.
Due to severe funding cuts for this program, Literary Fellowships will not be offered for the grant year 2004/05. The Writers’ League of Texas is pleased to have been a part of the Fellowship Awards for the past six years.
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