Submitted by: M Shelly Conner, mconner3@uca.edu on 10/01/2024
Dr. M Shelly Conner, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, will be awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship by the Arkansas Arts Council in an event on Thursday, Oct 3, 2024.
The event is FREE and OPEN to the public including free food, wine and beer and will be held at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Thursday, Oct 3, 2024 from 5-8pm.
The Individual Artist Fellowship grants are unconditional, non-matching awards made directly to individual Arkansas creatives. Independent panels annually select artists from six categories to receive $5,000 each. Categories change each year. This year, about 150 artists applied for the grants in the categories of multisensory art, community engagement, contemporary craft with glass or ceramic/pottery component, fashion and/or costume design, novel or memoir writing and docu-genre filmmaking.
Dr. M. Shelly Conner, of Cabot, was chosen this year in the category of memoir or novel writing. Conner is a multi-genre writer whose work includes playwriting, screenwriting, fiction, essay and creative nonfiction writing. She is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas where she also co-directs the MFA Program for writers. She is author of the Nautilus award-winning novel everyman.
