The Feminist Forum Spring 2020

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AWARDS

Women's Studies Writing Awards The Women’s Resource Center is proud to publish the powerful work of this year’s recipients of The Nancy Fix Anderson Women’s Studies Essay Contest (Lindsey L. Navarro) and The Barbara C. Ewell Creative Writing Award (Delaney Harper).

The Barbara C. Ewell Creative Writing Award

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his award honors Dr. Barbara C. Ewell, Professor Emerita of English, a founding member of the Women’s Studies Program and the Women’s Resource Center. She is author of Kate Chopin, a bio-critical study, lots of articles on Renaissance poetry, various North American writers, and feminist pedagogy. She has co-edited two collections, Louisiana Women Writers: Critical Essays and Bibliography and Southern Local Color: Stories of Region, Race and Gender. As the Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor, she continued to instruct and advise adult students in the Humanities Program and also teaches in the Women's Studies Program. She received the Dux Academicus Award in 2003. Entries for this award may be any work of creative writing, including poetry, fiction or drama. Entries must be the student's original work, published or unpublished, relating to the subjects of women and/or gender. Entries for either contest should be sent electronically to the co-chair of Women’s Studies,

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