Monica Macansantos has been awarded the James Michener Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of Texas. Macasantos is a fiction writer from the University of the Philippines. Her fiction was chosen from 1,100 submissions. The fellowship carries free tuition, a $25,000 annual stipend, and a $6,000 professional development fund.
Meanwhile, Edgar Samar and Ian Rosales Casocot have been accepted into the Iowa Writers' Workshop Fellowship. The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop was the first creative writing degree program in the United States and the model for contemporary writing programs. Workshop alumni have won seventeen Pulitzer Prizes (most recently Paul Harding in 2010), as well as numerous National Book Awards and other major literary honors. In 2003, the Workshop received a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Congratulations!
More information about the James Michener Fellowship here and the Iowa Writers' Workshop here.
Meanwhile, Edgar Samar and Ian Rosales Casocot have been accepted into the Iowa Writers' Workshop Fellowship. The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop was the first creative writing degree program in the United States and the model for contemporary writing programs. Workshop alumni have won seventeen Pulitzer Prizes (most recently Paul Harding in 2010), as well as numerous National Book Awards and other major literary honors. In 2003, the Workshop received a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Congratulations!
More information about the James Michener Fellowship here and the Iowa Writers' Workshop here.
