Juan Alvarado Valdivia
Writers Workshops Participant '13
His short story collection, Ballad of a Slopsucker, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in February 2019.
https://unmpress.com/books/ballad-slopsucker/9780826360571 Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Juliana Roth
Writers Workshops Participant, '17
Her screenplay for her film in independent development, What We Know, which follows a sexual assault survivor as she navigates the Title IX process, is a semifinalist in the 2019 Atlanta Film Festival’s Screenplay Competition and a finalist in the 2019 Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York. The crowdfunding campaign for the film is accepting donations until mid-March on Seed & Spark.
www.seedandspark.com/fund/whatweknowfilm Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Kate Wisel
Writers Workshop Participant '16
Her first book of short stories, Driving in Cars With Homeless Men, has won the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, which includes a substantial cash prize and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She was selected by judge Min Jin Lee.
http://www.upress.pitt.edu/books/9780822945680/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Stephanie Austin
Writer's Workshop Participant, '12
Her short story “Carrion” will be in the spring 2019 issue of Pembroke Magazine. Her flash fiction piece “Stray” will appear in the June issue of the Jellyfish Review.
Attended with the help of Joe Heinrich Scholarship
Alex Luke
Writers Workshops Participant, '18
Her short story “Sweet Blood” was published in Issue 18 of SAND Journal, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
http:///sandjournal.com/ Attended with the help of Maat Scholarship