2008 Elizabeth Bishop Prizes
by Ernie on 13/11/07 at 5:07 pm
The 2008 Elizabeth Bishop Prizes
Each year The Writing Studio at Walnut Hill invites young writers around the world who are currently in grades 8-11 (or at an equivalent stage in educational systems abroad) to submit work to the Elizabeth Bishop Prizes in Verse and Fiction. While a student at Walnut Hill from 1927 to 1930, Elizabeth Bishop contributed poems, short fiction, plays, and book reviews to The Blue Pencil, the literary magazine of The Writing Studio, and she served as editor of the magazine during her senior year.
Since its inception in 2004, the competition in Bishop’s name has drawn work from writers as far abroad as Singapore and Israel and as near as down the street in Natick—and the submission pool keeps growing. Last year the members of The Writing Studio, who form the editorial board, spent six weeks reading and reviewing four hundred submissions in preparation for final deliberations. Past winners of Elizabeth Bishop Prizes, whose names appear below, each received a full scholarship to the Walnut Hill Summer Writing Program, an intensive, artist-directed, multi-genre experience that takes advantage of international settings to expose students to national literatures while carrying on rigorous instruction in craft. In 2007, the program visited Edinburgh, Scotland, for 8 days. In previous years, the Summer writers traveled to Dublin, Ireland, and to Cambridge, England.
For Writers’ Guidelines and to submit work, visit
Questions?
E-mail Allan Reeder, Head of Studio Publications, at areeder@walnuthillarts.org.
