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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, send us an e-mail.
2010-2011
Jasmine Bailey
Jasmine Bailey graduated from Colgate in 2005 and the University of Virginia MFA program in 2010. There, she worked as poetry editor for the semi-annual literary journal, Meridian. Her chapbook of poems, Sleep and What Precedes It, won the Longleaf Press 2009 Chapbook Prize and her book-length collection of poetry, Alexandria, will be published by Carnegie Mellon. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the minnesota review, Poet Lore, 32 Poems, The Carolina Quarterly, The Portland Review, and the Birmingham Poetry Review, among others.
Marjorie Celona
Marjorie Celona studied writing at the University of Victoria and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the Ailene Barger Barnes Prize for Excellence in the Short Story. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2008), Glimmer Train, Crazyhorse, Best Canadian Stories (2007, 2010, 2012), The Fiddlehead, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. In May, she will be writer-in-residence at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, where she plans to finish her novel.