SHOWCASE

Short Takes

May/June 2009

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  • Creative writing professor Tobias Wolff, MA ’78, won the $20,000 Story Prize for short fiction for Our Story Begins: New and Collected Stories.
  • Jane Golden, ’75, who directs the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, received the Katharine Hepburn Medal from a center at Bryn Mawr College.
  • English professor Seth Lerer won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle award for criticism for Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter. Kathryn Harrison, ’82, was a finalist for the group’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
  • Kathryn Ma, ’78, MA ’78, won the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her collection All That Work and Still No Boys.

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