EVANSVILLE, IL (West Frankfort Gazette – Click to read the full story on the link above. Here is an excerpt below)
University of Evansville student Neil Brookhouse of West Frankfort has received the Department of Creative Writing 2017 Virginia Lowell Grabill Award for excellence in undergraduate creative writing. Brookhouse, a Psychology major, won first place in fiction for his piece entitled “Neighbors”.
The Virginia Grabill competition is held by the University of Evansville’s English department every year. Brookhouse added, “I figured that since it was my senior year and therefore my last chance to do so, I should submit something.”
“I’m really honored by the award, honestly. And surprised, too. I’ve been sitting on this story for a year now, just re-reading it and editing it and talking myself out of it. I think when you look at anything you’ve made for too long, you start to hate it. The story had become something way too familiar and simultaneously completely unrecognizable to me, and I felt like I’d lost sight of the narrative during the editing process. So in that respect, the award was really reassuring, too. It made me feel like I was doing something right.”
WEST FRANKFORT, IL (Evie Allen, WSIL TV Please Click on link above for the full story. Below, is an excerpt)
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