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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Tara Laskowski Is 2009 Fish Fellow
This year, we received and read 97 applications for the Kathy Fish Fellowship. After long hours reading and discussing the merits of the applicants, we're hugely excited to announce that Tara Laskowski is our 2009 Fish Fellow. We'd also like to recognize the outstanding work of the other writers on our shortlist. As we did last year, I'll post their #'s here as well, as that's how we knew the applicants during the reading process (all names were stripped from the materials before staff members could read them).
Winner
55: Tara Laskowski
Shortlist
3: Sara Levine
16: Megan Mayhew Bergman
23: Douglas Bruton
29: Foust
Many other applications were excellent as well. The five above represented those who completely blew us away.
We can't wait to begin working with Tara. Here's a little more information about her:
Tara Laskowski earned an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University and recently completed a manuscript of her first novel, set in her hometown in Pennsylvania. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in several places, most recently The Rambler and Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art. Her short story "They" was published in Pindledyboz and was a storySouth Million Writers Award notable online story in 2004. Another story, "Hole to China," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Tara lives and works in a suburb of Washington, D.C., and is learning how to play the piano.
Tara is the third Fish Fellow, following Beth Thomas in 2007 and Stefanie Freele in 2008.
Labels: Beth Thomas, Fish Fellowship, Kathy Fish, Stefanie Freele, Tara Laskowski
posted by Dave Clapper at 3:16 PM 3 commentsThursday, November 20, 2008
2009 Fish Fellowship applications now being accepted
Applications for the 2009 Kathy Fish Fellowship ($500) are now being accepted. For more details, please see the announcement.
Labels: Beth Thomas, Fish Fellowship, Kathy Fish, SmokeLong Quarterly, Stefanie Freele
posted by Dave Clapper at 4:10 PM 0 commentsTuesday, January 15, 2008
Stefanie Freele Is 2008 Fish Fellow
After poring over 90 applications, the editors of SmokeLong are ecstatic to announce that Stefanie Freele will be our Fish Fellowship "writer in residence" for 2008. This was not an easy choice—the quality of the applications we received was outstanding. Our final eight were as follows:Winner:
22: Stefanie Freele
Honorable Mention:
52: Michelle Tandoc-Pichereau
72: Elizabeth Oliver
74: Glenn Shaheen
Short List:
13: Stephanie Harrison
55: Kate Hill Cantrill
59: S. J. Powers
86: Sophie Rosenblum
The numbers, incidentally, were the names by which we knew the writers until after we'd reached our decision. They reflect the order in which their applications arrived. We're only just now getting used to thinking of Stefanie as "Stefanie," rather than as "#22."
There were many, many writers who brought outstanding work to their applications who didn't make the short list. In all, 21 writers received at least one strong yes vote from a member of the staff, and several others just missed that threshold. It was truly an impressive group.
We can't wait to start working with Stefanie, and we think you'll love her writing, which will first appear in our March 15 issue. For those wanting to know a bit more about Stefanie (as we did), we googled a bit and found this bio from the January '08issue of Flash Fiction Online:
Stefanie Freele was born and raised in Wisconsin and currently lives on a river on the west coast. Her recent fiction credits include American Literary Review, South Dakota Review, Permafrost, Westview, Hobart, and Contrary. She will have forthcoming work in Talking River, Etchings, and in a speculative fiction anthology titled Futuristic Motherhood. She has completed a novel and is working on her MFA thesis with the Whidbey Writers Workshop in Washington.
Labels: Elizabeth Oliver, Fish Fellowship, Glenn Shaheen, Kate Hill Cantrill, Michelle Tandoc-Pechereau, S. J. Powers, Sophie Rosenblum, Stefanie Freele, Stephanie Harrison
posted by Dave Clapper at 6:49 AM 7 commentsFriday, December 15, 2006
Beth Thomas Named as 2007 Fish Fellow
The winner of the 2007 Kathy Fish Fellowship is Beth Thomas. She will receive $500.00 over the course of the next year and will be published in each of our 2007 issues. Many, many thanks to all of the amazing applicants, and congratulations both to Beth and to finalists Terri Brown-Davidson and Kelly Spitzer. We can't wait to start working with Beth in the new year.Her bio: Beth Thomas is originally from New Mexico but currently lives in California due to military relocation. She works as a technical writer in the aerospace/defense industry. She has a BA and an MA in writerly things from New Mexico universities. Her fiction has recently appeared in Edgar Literary Magazine, Gator Springs Gazette, EdificeWrecked, Insolent Rudder, and UR Paranormal.
Labels: Beth Thomas, Fish Fellowship, Kathy Fish, Kelly Spitzer, Terri Brown-Davidson
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