College Relations
Salem State College Professor Recipient of Writing Award
September 22, 2005
CONTACT --- Jim Glynn at (978) 542-7519 or james.glynn@salemstate.edu
J.D. Scrimgeour Work Awarded Top Prize for Creative Non-fiction
SALEM, MASS. - The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), a non-profit organization of writers, teachers, colleges and universities, recently awarded its annual prize for best creative non-fiction work to Salem State College English professor J.D. Scrimgeour.
AWP sponsors an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works-the AWP Award Series. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence. As the winner in the creative non-fiction category, Scrimgeour receives a cash honorarium from AWP and publication of his winning work by a participating press.
J.D. Scrimgeour coordinates the creative writing program at Salem State College. His poetry collection, The Last Miles, will be published by Fine Tooth Press in 2005. Essays from Themes For English B - the work for which he won the AWP award -- have appeared in Boston Globe Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Thought & Action. His essay, "Living the Outfield," won the Writing Baseball contest sponsored by Creative Nonfiction and will appear in the journal's special issue, "The Anatomy of Baseball."
Scrimgeour lives in Salem with his wife, Eileen FitzGerald, and their two sons.
Salem State College, founded in 1854 as a normal school, is a state-assisted, comprehensive, liberal arts college located in the historic city of Salem, Massachusetts. It is the largest state college in Massachusetts, with a total enrollment of approximately 9,220 undergraduate and graduate students.
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