Eight Sewanee Writers’ Conference alumni were awarded 2012 National Endowment for the Arts grants and literature fellowships in creative writing (prose). 

Congratulations to Belle Boggs (Walter E. Dakin Fellow/Fiction/2011); Amber Dermont (Tennessee Williams Scholar/Fiction/2010); Jennifer Haigh (Walter E. Dakin Fellow/Fiction/2003, Fiction/1999); Alan Heathcock (Walter E. Dakin Fellow/Fiction/2011); Tayari Jones (Walter E. Dakin Fellow/Fiction/2004); Porochista Khakpour (Walter E. Dakin Fellow/Fiction/2008); Susan McCallum-Smith (Fiction/2001, 2002); and Benjamin Percy (Fiction/Tennessee Williams Scholar/2003). 

“Designed to give writers the time and freedom to pursue their work, the creative writing fellowships are the NEA’s most direct investment in America’s artists.”