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This summer will mark five years since I was a Fellow at Bread Loaf, and someone recently asked me who my other fellows were. I couldn't remember all of them off the top of my head. When I asked my friend why, he joked that he loves lists like this because it is always amazing to him how many people on awards lists simply disappear within a few years of winning things. His strangest example was the Walt Whitman Award. He named off at least ten poets who had won this award that I have never heard of at all. He claimed they never published another good book. Anyway, Andy, here is the list of Fellows at the 2003 Bread Loaf Writers Conference. From my cursory glance, I think most of us are still around, still writing and publishing.


2003 Fellows at Bread Loaf


Tom Bissell--Bernard De Voto Fellow in Nonfiction

Christopher Castellani--Theodore Morrison Fellow in Fiction

Ann Cummins--Amanda Davis Memorial Fellow in Fiction

Beth Ann Fennelly--Richard Soref Fellow in Poetry

Tom Franklin--Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellow in Fiction

Jennifer Grotz--Katherine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Poetry

Helon Hebila--John Farrar Fellow in Fiction

James Hoch--John Ciardi Fellow in Poetry

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers--Alan Collins Fellow in Poetry

Tayari Jones--Fletcher Pratt Fellow in Fiction

Sally Keith--Margaret Bridgman Fellow in Poetry

Suji Kwock Kim--Meralmikjen Fellow in Poetry

Dana Levin--Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry

Lisa Michaels--Alan Collins Fellow in Fiction

Naeem Murr--Margaret Bridgman Fellow in Fiction

Michael Perry--Katherine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Nonfiction

Sara Pritchard--Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Fiction

Sarah Stone--Shane Stevens Fellow in the Novel

Monique Truong--John Gardner Fellow in Fiction

Vendela Vida--Shane Stevens Fellow in Fiction

C. Dale Young--Stanley P. Young Fellow in Poetry


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