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The Mary Wood Fellowship at Washington College is awarded biannually to an emerging female writer—in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction—who has published one book. For the Spring 2014 Mary Wood Fellowship, applications will be accepted through Friday, March 15, 2013. -
The Rose O’Neill Literary House has named the winner of the 2014 Mary Wood Fellowship, poet Shara Lessley. -
At the 2013 Senior Reading, the Rose O’Neill Literary House announced this year’s winners of three annual student creative writing prizes: The Literary House Genre Fiction Prize, The William W. Warner Prize for Creative Writing on Nature and the Environment, and The Jude & Miriam Pfister Poetry Prize. -
The Rose O’Neill Literary House has named the winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Summer Residency, Yona Harvey. -
The author of the acclaimed You Know When the Men are Gone will read from her work at the Rose O’Neil Literary House Feb. 19.
One Teen Story - Laura van den Berg
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Laura van den Berg
Many of you have probably seen that the Lit House has a subscription to One Teen Story, and so far we have received 3 issues. The first issue was “The Deadline” by Gayle Forman; second issue was “The Freshwater Mermaid” by Gregory Maguire, which most people will recognize as the author of Wicked. The third issue is by the 2012 Mary Wood Fellow, Laura van den Berg.
Anyone who has ever read a Laura van den Berg story knows that they are engaging, well written and for lack of a better word, different. My personal favorite story of hers is one titled “Mansion,” about a group of three people who live in a house that they call the Mansion. It would be better for you to read it than watch me type about it.
The story featured by One Teen Story is titled “The Greatest Escape” and I’ll let you read it rather than tell you about it.
No spoiler alerts needed in this blog post.
If you are interested in learning more about One Teen Story or One Story, click here and here respectively, or watch this video and stop by to read Laura’s, Gayle’s and Gregory’s stories.
