2008 Kratz Center Summer Writing Fellowship Awards

  1. Elisabeth “Ella” Aroneau (for attendance of Tin House Summer Writers Workshop or New York Summer Writers Institute; Grant Amount: $2000).
  1. Susan Dobinick (internship with Scholastic Books, a children’s book publisher; Grant Amount: $2404.00)
  1. Lindsay Hill (for travel to ruins and pilgrimage sites in Ireland to gather material for a series of poems; Grant Amount: $2107.00)
  1. Tim King (travel to Spain to research a mixed genre-writing project about language and identity; Grant Amount: $2500.00)
  1. Geoffrey Leonard (for travel to Venezuela to research a novel in progress, When the Geographers Came, about land disputes and land rights in Latin America. Grant Amount: $2500.00)
  1. Zach Martin (for travel to Oregon and Washington State to gather material for poems in the style and spirit of Gary Snyder; Grant Amount: $2000.00)
  1. Meghan Meros (for travel along the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage trail, to gather material for a series of poems; Grant Amount: $1200.00)
  1. Kaitlyn Miller (for travel to Wales to gather material for a fantasy fiction project based on Welsh mythology; Grant Amount: $2100.00)
  1. Tim Quinlan (for travel along the Hudson River trail to gather material for his novel in progress (a thesis project); Grant Amount: $1622.00)
  1. Josh Sasson (for attendance at screenwriting workshops at the Maine Media Workshop in Rockporte Maine; Grant Amount: $2500.00)
  1. Isaac Shapiro (for contribution to production expenses of “You Stole My Script,” a one-act play; Grant Amount: $2500.00)
  1. Julie Steinbacher (for travel to complete stories to several mid-West/Western mountains); Amount: $2500.00)

For further information contact

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