2007 Kratz Center Summer Writing Fellowship Awards

1. Allison McCarthy: support for an unpaid summer internship at a literary magazine, The Baltimore Review; Grant Amount: $1100.00
2. Phoebe Westwood: attendance at Skidmore Summer Writers’ Conference or Iowa Summer Writers’ Workshop; Grant Amount: $1428- 2350 depending which conference she attends.
3. Jillian Schweitzer: support for a three-week intensive course in Prague; Grant Amount: $1800.00
4. Jean Berger: support for travel in Israel to research a series of short stories about American Jews returning there; Grant Amount: $2000.00
5. Rachel Bernstein:  support to attend Skidmore Summer Writers’ Conference; Grant Amount: $1700.00
6. Ashley Farris: Travel to literary sites in England to collect material for poems; Grant Amount: $2500.00
7. Mariah Healey:  five weeks teaching photography to impoverished children in Guatemala and Honduras, to result in works of creative nonfiction; Grant Amount: $2000.00
8. Erik Oster: Study at the Paris American Academy during July, to result in short stories and essays; Grant Amount: $2500.00
9. Josh Sasson: attendance at Paris American Academy summer creative writing workshop; Grant Amount: $2500.00

For further information contact

Madison Smartt Bell, the Director of the Kratz Center at 410-337-6282, mbell@goucher.edu.