Ellen Meloy Fund

Announcing the 2024 Desert Writers Award recipient, Debbie Weingarten!

 
 

BLUFF, UT –  The Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers has chosen Debbie Weingarten of Brevard, North Carolina, as the recipient of the eighteenth annual Desert Writers Award. A grant of $5,000 will support work on her book proposal, provisionally titled “Quitting Season.”

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In the desert there is everything and there is nothing. Stay curious. Know where you are—your biological address. Get to know your neighbors—plants, creatures, who lives there, who died there, who is blessed, cursed, what is absent or in danger or in need of your help. Pay attention to the weather, to what breaks your heart, to what lifts your heart. Write it down.
— E.M. November 2004
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We provide support to writers whose work reflects the spirit and passions embodied in Ellen’s writing and her commitment to a “deep map of place.”

 
 
 

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