To enhance its strong program in creative writing, the Department of English established the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing. Designed to support a writer completing his or her first book, the annual fellowship provides a generous stipend, office space, and an intellectual community for the recipient, who spends the academic year at Colgate. In return, the fellow teaches a creative-writing workshop each semester and gives a public reading of his or her work.
For additional information about the fellowship and the application process, please send us an e-mail.
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 Sarah Beth Childers finds much of her writing inspiration in the creeks, hills, and train tracks around where she grew up in Huntington, West Virginia.
She has a bachelor of arts in history from Marshall University and a master of fine arts in creative nonfiction from West Virginia University. She has taught writing at West Virginia University and medieval literature and history at Duke University’s Talent Identification Program.
Her work has appeared in SNReview and Paddlefish, and her short story “Red Ribbon” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009.
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2009-2010
Anthony Eleftherion’s stories have appeared in the Madison Review and Epoch. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Rutgers University and a master of fine arts degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Maytag fellow.
A short film he co-wrote received a student academy award, the HBO short film award, the grand jury awards at South by Southwest and Palm Springs Film Festivals, and was an official selection of the Sundance film festival. He is completing a collection of stories about Brooklyn, NY.
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