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Al Smith Fellowships 2008
Each year, the Kentucky Arts Council award’s a number of unencumbered fellowships to Kentucky artists who have shown merit. The literary arts, to include music composition and dance choreography, alternate with the plastic arts yearly.
This year’s Al Smith Fellowship Awards for writers went to:
- Nancy Bowden, fiction, Whitley City
- Dianne Aprile, creative non-fiction, Louisville
- Kenneth King, creative non-fiction, Somerset
- Thomas Southerland, playwriting, Lexington
- David Cazden, poetry, Lexington
- Marianne Worthington, poetry, Williamsburg
Along with the Al Smith Fellowships, a certain number of applicants are chosen to receive smaller Professional Assistance Awards. This year’s awardess are:
- Bev Olert, fiction, Paris
- Paul Prather, fiction, Mount Sterling
- Merle Bachman, creative non-fiction, Louisville
- Olga-Maria Cruz Smock, creative non-fiction, Louisville
- Denise McKinney, playwriting, Berea
- Elizabeth Orndorff, playwriting, Danville
- Lorraine Nickole Brown, poetry, Louisville
- Adam Day, poetry, Louisville
- Kathleen Driskell, poetry, Louisville
- Tom Hunley, poetry, Bowling Green
- Jeffrey Skinner, poetry, Prospect
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