2017 Gaydell
Collier Memorial Scholarships Awarded
by Kathleen
Smith
Bearlodge Writers of Sundance, Wyoming, have awarded
two scholarships for the Wyoming Writers Conference being held June 1-3, 2017,
in Gillette, Wyoming. The lucky recipients are Corinna German of Laurel, Montana, and Andrew Call of Farson, Wyoming.
German wrote that attending the Wyoming Writers’
conference would allow her to take her writing a step further, provide
opportunity for her to meet other writers, and attend workshops that will make
her writing even better. “I would walk away with friendships, mentors, advice,
and a confirmed resolve to keep writing.” German is grateful for the
opportunity to attend the WW, Inc. conference, and considers it an honor to
have been selected by Bearlodge Writers as a recipient of the Gaydell Collier Memorial
Scholarship.”
Bearlodge Writers also believed enough in Call to
help him return to the Wyoming Writers conference this year. He wrote in his
application: Attending as a scholarship recipient would provide me the funds
needed to rejoin familiar faces, regale new friends with my failures and
ambitions, and connect with fresh inspiration. “It’s motivation in a bottle
strong enough for Hemingway and social enough for Fitzgerald, and I hunger for
another hit like a sober Hunter S. Thompson. I was fortunate to attend last
year because the conference was in my backyard, but this year’s conference
mocks my budget while still calling me with an unsubtle siren song. ‘You need
this. You want this. Your soul begs for a means to make it happen.’”
The Gaydell Collier Memorial Scholarship was
established by the Collier family and
Bearlodge Writers to honor the memory of Gaydell
Collier, a founding member of both Bearlodge Writers and Wyoming Writers.
