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Dec
7
AWP Conference Scholarship Now Available
December 7, 2020 | Leave a Comment
As part of AWP’s mission to increase access to the annual Conference & Bookfair, we are pleased to announce the AWP Community Scholarship. We are excited to bring important resources and opportunities to historically underrepresented communities at #AWP21. Individuals who identify as people of color, people with disabilities, and/or low income are encouraged to apply. […]
Feb
10
AWP Award Series Deadline
February 10, 2020 | Leave a Comment
AWP’s Award Series, an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works is open to all writers. See the details below for more information. The AWP Award Series competition ends on February 29 Submit via Submittable “The AWP Award brought recognition to a manuscript that had received glowing letters of… rejection. It was […]
Jan
9
Kurt Brown Prize Now Open for Application
January 9, 2020 | Leave a Comment
The Kurt Brown Prizes award $500 each year to emerging writers in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction who wish to attend a writers’ conference, center, retreat, festival, or residency. The prizes are applied to fees for winners to attend one of the member programs in AWP’s Directory of Conferences & Centers. The contest is now […]
Oct
26
Apply for AWP Conference Funding
October 26, 2019 | Leave a Comment
Want to attend the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in San Antonio, Texas this March 4 -7? Need a little financial assistance? Apply for departmental funds now! All interested students (graduate or undergraduate) should: -Compose a short (300 words) email stating why you would like to attend AWP this spring. -Send the […]
Sep
18
SCAD Alumna Publishes Latest in Creative Nonfiction
September 18, 2019 | Leave a Comment
Alumna Anne Royan (M.F.A. ’18) recently published her essay “Skin Hunger” in the premier literary journal, Creative Nonfiction. After leaving a job in the fashion department at Harper’s Bazaar in New York City, she spent many months traveling solo through the Himalayas. She taught English and poetry to monks in the Dalai Lama’s temple and to […]
Nov
14
Apply Now for AWP Conference Funding
November 14, 2016 | Leave a Comment
Want to attend the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Washington, D.C. this February? Need a little financial assistance? Apply for departmental funds now! All interested students (graduate or undergraduate) should: -Compose a short (300 words) email stating why you would like to attend AWP this spring. -Send the email to Professor James […]
Apr
28
Savannah accolades
April 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment
The NYU Writers in New York summer program accepted Savannah graduate student Amie Flanagan for the May 23-June 16 session. The Big Roundtable published “Notes From My Suicide” by Kenneth Rosen (B.F.A., 2014). Savannah graduate student Anne Royan won a 2016 AWP Intro Journals award in the creative nonfiction category for “Borrowed Gardens.” She is […]
Mar
31
Join SCAD Panel at AWP
March 31, 2016 | Leave a Comment
Join SCAD professors, an MFA alum, a current student, and a Harper Perennial editor for their panel presentation at AWP this Thursday: Laugh to Keep from Crying: Using Humor to Write Through Pain Knock, knock. Who’s there? Searing emotional trauma! Emerging and established authors and editors will discuss using humor to explore painful subjects, including […]
Feb
3
Conferences and Submissions
February 3, 2016 | Leave a Comment
AWP Conference and Submissions The Association of Writers and Writing Programs is currently accepting submissions in poetry, nonfiction and fiction. The winners in each category will receive $500 that may be placed towards the cost of attendance at any of their festivals, retreats or other activities. They’ll be hosting a Tweet chat on Feb 16 […]
Dec
29
SCAD Grads Nominated for AWP Intro Journals Award
December 29, 2015 | Leave a Comment
GOOD NEWS! Two SCAD writing students have been nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Project Award: Tonesa Jones for her short story, “Summer of the Frogs” Anne Royan for her piece of creative nonfiction, “Borrowed Gardens.” The pieces will compete with other nominated work from around the country for $100 honorariums in fiction and creative nonfiction, and for publication in […]