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A local Pulitzer connection!
OK, OK, so them dang-nabbed Pulitzer jurors decided to pass on yours truly again, the swine…. When there’s an award for “Silliest Blog Post,” I think I’ll finally be in the running for something.
But still, that doesn’t mean there isn’t some small Miami Valley connection to the awards announced Monday.
Here’s a news release just in from the good folks at the Antioch Writer’s Workshop in Yellow Springs. The workshop this year is July 11-17 at Antioch McGregor, and you can get more info at www.antiochwritersworkshop.com.
BTW, I’m on the board (full disclosure!).
Here’s the aforementioned release:
Pulitzer Prize Winner Has Local Connection
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio—Elizabeth Strout has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge (2008), a collection of connected short stories about a woman and her immediate family and friends on the coast of Maine, published by Random House. Strout was keynote speaker at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop (Yellow Springs, Ohio) in 2007. Strout is also the author of New York Times best-selling Amy and Isabelle, which won the L.A. Times Award for First Fiction among other awards. The novel was made into a television movie by Oprah Winfrey’s production company. Strout is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel Abide with Me.
The Antioch Writers’ Workshop (www.antiochwritersworkshop.com) is presented in partnership with Antioch University McGregor and is funded by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.
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