Retrospective News: Oregon Literary Fellowship

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Arts & Culture, Awards, Writing

In December 2004, I was awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship—specifically, the Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship for Literary Nonfiction. What an honor! Several months later, the 2004 class of recipients was fêted at a lovely ceremony at the Wieden + Kennedy offices…

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Hitting the Honorable Mention Jackpot

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Awards, Publication News

In the Spring 2023 Oregon Poetry Association poetry contests, I got three honorable mentions for some of my newer poems. Now to find publication homes for them! Here’s the skinny: Honorable Mention for “Of the Wild Bees Living in a Tree in the Alley” in the Wildlife Themed Category…

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Retrospective News: James Jones First Novel Fellowship

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Author Interview, Awards

When I went to graduate school at SUNY/Binghamton in the early 1990s, my major was English and Creative Writing. My creative writing concentration at the time was fiction—not the poetry I have been writing for the past fifteen years…

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