WRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS
formerly the Austin Writers' League
Subgrant Award
Subgrant Awards for 2003
The Writers’ League of Texas has awarded $50,000 in grants for literature projects and operational support to literature-based organizations in Texas for 2003/04. The Grants in Literature Program of Texas is administered by the Writers’ League and funded by the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Twenty-five applications were received from individuals and organizations requesting support for specific projects or for operational support. Requests totaled $102,920 and came from all across the state of Texas.
Organizational Support
Eleven organizations were successful in receiving organizational support
from this program. These included the following:
| Inprint, Inc. | $5,200 |
| Writers In The Schools | $4,900 |
| Gemini Ink | $4,700 |
| The Writer’s Garret | $4,200 |
| The Texas Observer | $4,100 |
| Austin Script Works | $2,600 |
| Gulf Coast | $2,100 |
| Voices Breaking Boundaries | $2,000 |
| WordSpace | $1,800 |
| West Texas A&M University | $1,000 |
| The Living Room Theater of Salado | $950 |
Project Support
Thirteen applicants were successful in receiving project support from
this program. These included:
| Tammy Gomez, Latin Arts Assoc. | $1,400 |
| Women and Their Work | $2,000 |
| Angelo State | $2,000 |
| Austin Poets International, Inc. | $1,900 |
| The Alley Theatre | $1,500 |
| DMA, Arts & Letters Live | $1,300 |
| Casa de la Cultura | $1,250 |
| Young Audiences of SE Texas | $1,700 |
| (AGE) Elderhaven Writing Workshop | $1,100 |
| Diana Molina, UT Press | $800 |
| The Poetry Society of Texas | $600 |
| Mary Jane Garza, Pro Arts Collective | $500 |
| ALLGO | $400 |
Peer panelists for 2003 included:
- Dr. Jane Creighton, Assistant Professor of English at University of Houston-Downtown, a poet and creative non-fiction writer whose work has been published in a number of journals. Long associated as a writer and teacher with Writers in the Schools in Houston, she has served as a juror for the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County individual writers grants and has previously taught creative writing for the University of Houston, Inprint, Inc. and the Teachers and Writers Collaborative.
- Robin Scofield teachers in the English Department and in the Academic Development Center and Western Cultural Heritage program at the University of Texas, El Paso. She has an MA in Creative Writing for The University of Texas at Austin and a BA in English from UT Austin. She is a poet and teacher of Expository English, special topics and Research Critical Writing at UT El Paso, and was a finalist for the Milton Center Residency in summer 2001, a finalist in the River Styx poetry contest in summer 2000. She served on the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1982 and the Literary Committee for Bridge Center for Contemporary Arts. She is the Assistant Coordinator of the Tumble words Project and a docent at the El Paso Holocaust museum. Her research interests include Processes of Children Writing, Women’s Studies and Contemporary Poetry, Translation.
- Rob Johnson holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, an MA in English from the University of Houston and a BA in English form UT Austin. His areas of specialization are Mexican American Writers, The Beat Generation and Southern Writers. He is the Editor of Shortline – Stories from the Gold Age of Railroad Fiction, a poet and fiction writer.
- Tom Pilkington is a University Scholar and professor of English at Tarleton State University and general editor of the Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities published by Texas A&M Press. He is a native Texan whose works include My Blood’s Country: Studies in Southwestern Literature. He was the 1999 Violet Crown winner for State of Mind, Texas Literature and Culture, and winner of the 1999 Thomas J. Lyon Award from Western Literature Association.
- Diana Lopez is a Corpus Christi native and author of the new novel Sofia’s Saints. She is a graduate of the creative writing program at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos. She works as an eighth-grade English teacher for the city’s oldest school district. She teachers workshops for educators on teaching creative writing. Diana won the 2002 Writers’ League of Texas Fellowship from the Texas Commission on the Arts in poetry
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 wlt@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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