I've been sitting on this for a few weeks now, but getting this formal announcement yesterday in my inbox from Nick Norwood, Director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, still made me cry. When I read Carson McCullers's The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter as a lonely teenager in the Philippines, I felt that I had met the people McCullers was writing about in my own hometown of Baguio. She was a white woman from the American South, but she made me feel seen. If I could only tell fourteen year old Monica that she'd get to live and write in one of her favorite writer's childhood homes.
As recipient of the Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers, I will live and work in Carson McCullers’s childhood home, the Smith-McCullers House, in Columbus, Georgia, for three months in the fall of 2025.
Named in honor of Carson's parents, The Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers was inspired by McCullers's experience at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference in Vermont and, especially, the Yaddo Arts Colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. To honor the contribution of these residency fellowships to McCullers's work, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians awards fellowships for writers to spend time in McCullers's childhood home in Columbus, Georgia. The fellowships are intended to afford the writers in residence uninterrupted time to dedicate to their work, free from the distractions of daily life and other professional responsibilities.
As recipient of the Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers, I will live and work in Carson McCullers’s childhood home, the Smith-McCullers House, in Columbus, Georgia, for three months in the fall of 2025.
Named in honor of Carson's parents, The Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers was inspired by McCullers's experience at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference in Vermont and, especially, the Yaddo Arts Colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. To honor the contribution of these residency fellowships to McCullers's work, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians awards fellowships for writers to spend time in McCullers's childhood home in Columbus, Georgia. The fellowships are intended to afford the writers in residence uninterrupted time to dedicate to their work, free from the distractions of daily life and other professional responsibilities.
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