Celebrating “Creative Writing Day” (from left): President Brogan, award winners Diane Larson and Tee Angel, Eleanor Baldwin, Courtney Brogan, Debbie Covino, Dean William Covino and Marla Lee, principal of the Henderson School.
President Brogan and First Lady Courtney Brogan announced the winners of the inaugural Frank and Courtney Brogan Creative Writing Awards in a reception at the Eleanor R. Baldwin House on Sept. 10. To commemorate the occasion, Boca Raton Mayor Steven Abrams proclaimed the date “Creative Writing Day” in the city of Boca Raton. The reception also celebrated FAU’s new Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.
Tee Angel won the award for prose writing with her story “Watching Stardust,” and Diane Larson won the poetry award with “Iris.” Each award is accompanied by a $500 scholarship.
Angel is beginning her second year in the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing. She moved to South Florida 18 years ago to raise her family. “Watching Stardust” is a short story about a mother and child looking for falling stars.
This is Diane Larson’s third award for poetry at FAU. She and her husband live in Cooper City and have a son and a daughter, “Iris,” the subject of her award-winning poem.
The winning pieces were selected from the 2003 edition of FAU’s literary magazine, Coastlines. Courtney Brogan chose the winners from six finalists nominated by faculty in the Department of English, at FAU’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College and Arts and Letters. “These students have created some very moving work,” said Brogan. “Frank and I are taking this opportunity to recognize their talent.”
For more information on FAU’s creative writing program or to receive the newest issue of Coastlines, call the English Department at 7-2973.
