Great Lakes, Great Colleges, Great Writing Contest [1]
Not too long ago the Great Lake Colleges Association [2] announced the winners of its New Writers Awards [3], given annually to a poet, fiction writer, and creative nonficiton writer to honor their first books. The University of Iowa Press [4] published two of the winning titles: Don Waters's story collection Desert Gothic and Melissa J. Delbridge's memoir Family Bible. Indie publisher Curbstone Press [5] released Teeth, the debut of winning poet Aracelis Girmay. (Incidentally, both Girmay [6] and Delbridge [7] have been featured in Poets & Writers Magazine.) As part of the award, each of the winners are invited to give readings, meet with students, and lead classes at several of the GLCA's member colleges, each of which pay five hundred dollars.
So, where might these three recent winners travel to collect their honoraria and meet potential readers? The following are the association's member colleges in Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvanie, and Ohio:
Albion College [8]
Allegheny College [9]
Antioch College [10]
Denison University [11]
DePauw University [12]
Earlham College [13]
Hope College [14]
Kalamazoo College [15]
Kenyon College [15]
Oberlin College [16]
Ohio Wesleyan University [17]
Wabash College [18]
The College of Wooster [19]