Each year, the Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College offers summer writing fellowships that range from $2,000 to $4,000. The fellowships can fund a writing-related internship; attendance at a summer conference or workshop; or worthy projects that involve travel or research connected to a work of creative writing. The Kratz Center is pleased to welcome the following new Summer Writing Fellows (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n
Josiah Acosta-Ballard<\/strong><\/span> will travel to small towns in Georgia as research for his short fiction project, which focuses on students interacting in small-school environments.<\/p>\n Nicolas Aliquo<\/strong> <\/span>will tour historical estates around the New England area as research for a fantasy novel, which takes place almost entirely in a Victorian-style mansion.<\/p>\n Ellison Butterfield<\/strong><\/span> will travel to San Jos\u00e9 Del Pac\u00edfico and Oaxaca de Ju\u00e1rez in Mexico to create a chapbook exploring angels (and other names for celestial guidance and protection).<\/p>\n Jamie Damm<\/strong> <\/span>will travel to Ireland and Northern Ireland to write a collection of poems focusing on how Catholic identity and sexuality intersect with personal Irish heritage and culture.<\/p>\n Adele Ehrman<\/strong><\/span> will visit various mental health facilities in the Mid-Atlantic region to create a collection of nonfiction essays regarding the field.<\/p>\n Grace Fischbach<\/strong><\/span> will travel to her ancestral village in Sweden to explore her heritage and family through a series of chronological poems.<\/p>\n Ethan Keydel<\/strong><\/span> will travel to Mexico City to create a poetry collection informed by local religious lifestyles.<\/p>\n Rachel Leeds<\/strong> <\/span>will take inspiration from Greyhound bus traveling to write a multi-perspective novella that gradually descends into surrealism.<\/p>\n Robert Ritchie Maldonado<\/strong> <\/span>will undertake a grand tour of Europe to support the completion of his novel in progress, Unbroken<\/em>.<\/p>\n Madison Mattison<\/strong><\/span> will produce a collection of short stories about the evolution of a young couple in 1980s Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year, Goucher\u2019s Kratz Center for Creative Writing has offered summer fellowships to 10 students, which will fund travel, research, and writing projects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":4135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7935],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[87484],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goucher-today"],"yoast_head":"\n