WRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS
formerly the Austin Writers' League
Subgrant Award
Subgrant Awards for 2002
The Writers’ League of Texas has awarded $48,500 in grants for
literature projects and operational support to literature-based organizations
in Texas for 2002/03. The Grants in Literature Program of Texas is administered
by the Writers’ League and funded by the Texas Commission on the
Arts.
Thirty-six applications were received from individuals and organizations
requesting support for specific projects or for operational support.
Requests totaled $140,748 and came from all across the state of Texas.
Organizational Support
Twelve organizations were successful in receiving organizational support
from this program. These included the following:
| Inprint, Houston | $4,700 |
| The Writer's Garret, Dallas | $4,400 |
| Austin Script Works, Austin | $2,800 |
| Gemini Ink, San Antonio | $3,400 |
| WordSpace, Dallas | $3,400 |
| Writers In The Schools, Houston | $3,400 |
| The Texas Observer, Austin | $3,400 |
| Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Art, Houston | $1,950 |
| Borderland Writers in the Schools, Alpine | $1,800 |
| Voices Breaking Boundaries, Houston | $1,200 |
| Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso | $750 |
| Panhandle Professional Writers, Amarillo | $600 |
Project Support
Seventeen applicants were successful in receiving project support from
this program. These included:
| The Living Room Theater of Salado | $1,500 |
| Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio | $1,750 |
| Angelo State University, San Angelo | $1,200 |
| Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio | $1,000 |
| Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Austin | $1,200 |
| Women & Their Work, Austin | $1,000 |
| Dr. Maceo C. Dailey & Ruthe Winegarten, Austin & El Paso | $1,000 |
| Austin Poets International | $1,000 |
| ALLGO, Austin | $950 |
| Judson Montessori School of San Antonio | $700 |
| Austin Poetry Slam | $650 |
| Katherine Anne Porter School, Kyle | $500 |
| Dallas Museum of Art for Arts and Letters Live | $2,300 |
| Young Audiences of Greater Dallas | $850 |
| Alley Theatre, Houston | $1,400 |
| Young Audiences of Southeast Texas, Beaumont | $1,000 |
| Poetry Society of Texas, Dallas | $200 |
Peer panelists for 2002 included:
- Jan Seale, of South Texas, who teaches writing in workshops around the state and is on the Speakers’ Bureau for the Texas Council on the Humanities and the artist roster for the Texas Commission on the Arts. Her latest work includes writing in the anthology Red Boots & Attitude and the Rockhurst Review.
- James Hoggard is a teacher at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls who was named the Poet Laureate of Texas for 2002. He has won a number of awards for his writing including an NEA Fellowship for creative writing and his books include six collections of poems, six collections of literary translations, a novel: a biography and a collection of stories.
- Monica Gomez is a full-time, performing and teaching artist living in El Paso. Since 1995 Monica has received consecutive annual Special Awards from ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and she is among a select group of artists listed in both the TCA and The Heartland Arts Touring Rosters. She has also won numerous awards for her poetry, writing and performing.
- Jim Sanderson teaches fiction writing and American literature and film at Lamar University. He has published numerous essays, short stories and has won the Kenneth Patchen Prize for fiction in 1992, sponsored by Pig Iron Press. Sanderson’s first novel, El Camino del Rio, won the 1997 Frank Waters Prize and he has published about fifty short stories, essays or scholarly articles. Sanderson has a Ph.D. in fiction writing from Oklahoma State University.
- Tara Holley is the Director of External Affairs of ARTPACE Foundation
in San Antonio. She has worked with the Harry Ransom Humanities Research
Center, The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and for the TCA
as well as the TCH. Formerly a singer and performer, she is an award
winning co-author of a family memoir.
Information on the 2003/04-literature grant program will be available in September. Individuals and organizations can request that their names be place on the mailing list by calling the League at 512-499-8914 or via email at ssheppard@writersleague.org or by mail at 1501 W. 5th St. Suite E-2, Austin TX. 78703. Applications must be received in the office no later than December 10, or postmarked by December 10, 2003.
Applicants should consider that the grant requests are scored on general criteria that reflect the intent and spirit of the League's Grants in Literature program. Each application is reviewed and evaluated by the Advisory Review Panel using criteria that reflects the projects service, involvement, capability and artistic merit to literature as an art.
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