[Cwgrad-announcements] NEWS FLASH: CHRIS ABANI AWARDED 2009 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP

[susan straight]

Dear All,
How exciting!  And it's a great list of fellowship recipients, so Chris A, and Chris B, continue to make us proud for several years running.
Susan


--- On Wed, 4/8/09, D Charles Whitney <Chuck.Whitney at ucr.edu> wrote:

From: D Charles Whitney <Chuck.Whitney at ucr.edu>
Subject: NEWS FLASH: CHRIS ABANI AWARDED 2009 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP
To: CRWFacLect at ucr.edu, "CRWT Gradlist" <cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu>
Cc: chancellor at ucr.edu, "Dean_Cullenberg Cullenberg" <stephen.cullenberg at ucr.edu>, "Georgia_Warnke" <georgia.warnke at ucr.edu>, "Bettye Miller" <bettye.miller at ucr.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 10:26 AM


Chris Abani has won a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in fiction.  Congratulations!!


Abain is the third Creative Writing faculty member to have garnered this fellowship.  Prior winners were Susan Straight for fiction in 1997 and Christopher Buckley in poetry in 2007.


http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6650266.html?desc=topstory





D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair
Department of Creative Writing, 4119 INTS
U of California, Riverside CA 92521
951.827.6076    FAX 951.827.3619




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