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SC Governor's School creative writing faculty receives fiction award from the Fellowship of Southern
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA - April 20, 2011 - South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities (SCGSAH) creative writing faculty member, George Singleton, received the 2011 Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The award was given at the Chattanooga Arts & Education Council's AEC Conference on Southern Literature in Chattanooga, TN on Saturday, April 16.
The award is given every other year to a Southern writer whose work embodies the character and spirit of the southern experience.
In addition to teaching fiction for SCGSAH since 1999, Singleton has published four collections of short stories (These People Are Us, The Half-Mammals of Dixie, Why Dogs Chase Cars and Drowning in Gruel); two novels (Novel, Work Shirts for Madmen); and one book of writing advice (Pep Talks, Warnings and Screeds). In 2013 his new collection, Stray Decorum, will be published by Dzanc.
Singleton's fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Georgia Review and Southern Review. Ten of his stories have appeared in the annual New Stories from the South anthology. Singleton was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009.
Founded in 1987, the FSW is a not-for-profit organization that recognizes and encourages excellence in southern literature. In past years the Hillsdale Award for Fiction has been given to Richard Bausch, Lewis Nordan, Bobbie Ann Mason, Josephine Humphreys, Ellen Douglas, and Percival Everett.
The FSW commemorates outstanding literary achievement, encourages young writers through awards, prizes and fellowships, and recognizes distinction in writing by election to membership.
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The South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities is a public residential high school located in Greenville, South Carolina, providing a unique arts and academic education to the state's emerging artists. Young artists, usually in 11th or 12th grade, study creative writing, dance, drama, music, or visual arts during the academic year and rising 9th and 10th grade students attend summer programs in these areas, with summer dance programs open to rising 7th through 12th grade students. For more information, visit http://www.scgsah.org/ or call 864.282.3713.
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