MORE ON FELLOWSHIP WINNERS: From Lindsey Grubbs, WAC Literature Program intern: The results are in for the 2006 Creative Writing Fellowships! The three fellowship winners this year are John English, Alyson Hagy, and Geneen Marie Haugen. English is a professional non-fiction writer and has been the editor of several woodworking publications such as “Woodworker’s Journal”. He is also the author or co-author of four books and approximately 500 magazine articles. John is currently the editor of Woodezine, a monthly online magazine for woodworkers. His winning entry was, “A Terrible Beauty,” an extract from a mystery novel. Alyson Hagy, author of three short story collections and a novel, took a fellowship with her short story, “Border.” This story comes from a collection that she is currently assembling, which she says “attempts to explore conflicts that ‘haunt’ the West as images of cowboys and outlaws fade.” Geneen Marie Haugen is a “writer, wilderness explorer and guide for contemporary vision quests, and other programs designed to facilitate a more engaged relationship between the individual story and the story of the world.” This passion was clearly a driving force behind her entry, an excerpt entitled “Emergence,” which follows the daughter of a high-profile marriage in her quest for a connection with nature. In the past, Haugen has won the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Award, and her work can be found in several anthologies. The three fellowship recipients will read from their entries at the Casper College Literary Conference Oct. 1. They will read with James Sallis, the judge for the 2006 Fellowships.
