The Larry Levis Post-Graduate Fellowship supports an alum of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers producing his or her first book. The $10,000 Fellowship will be awarded once every two years, and will alternate between poetry and fiction.

The 2009 award, worth $10,000, was awarded to poet Kimberly McClintock. McClintock graduated from Warren Wilson in winter of 1999 and studied with poetry faculty Ira Sadoff, Steve Orlen, Reginald Gibbons, and Tom Andrews.

The 2009 judges were poets Linda Bierds, Henri Cole, and Forrest Hamer. Finalists for the award were Justin Bigos, Donna Henderson, and Amy McNamara.

The 2011 Levis Fellowship will be for a fiction writer. Guidelines for submitting to the 2011 Levis Fellowship for fiction are currently on the News page.

About Larry Levis

Larry Levis (1946-1996) was an award-winning poet who wrote six books of poetry during his lifetime. His last collection, Elegy, was published posthumously. A Selected Poems was published in 2000. Levis was a much beloved member of the faculty at the MFA Program for Writers, cherished as much for his incisive mind as for the care and attention he gave to his students.