Linda Blaskey

Linda Blaskey Lincoln Masters Literature: Poetry By: Gail Obenreder “A few months ago, I heard someone say, ‘You have to know your why.’ And it seems I have found mine: keep learning, keep writing, pay it forward.” Masters Fellow Linda Blaskey was a writer from the start: “I was always getting into trouble in school […]

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William Torrey

William Torrey Middletown Established Literature: Fiction By: Gail Obenreder “Even the smallest of moments, even the quickest interactions, are loaded with meaning and mystery and truth.” For as long as he can remember, William Torrey has loved telling stories. Throughout high school, he kept an online journal “read by dozens of my peers.” Though he […]

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Jamie J. Brunson

Jamie J. Brunson Wilmington Established Literature: Playwriting By: Gail Obenreder “All of my work seeks to give voice to the raw, dark truths of systematically disavowed characters and the personal and generational trauma that shapes them.” Writer, performer, and producer Jamie J. Brunson considers herself “a true child of the Civil Rights struggle in America […]

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