Subject: 2011 Winner of August Derleth Creative Writing Award
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Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 11:18:51 -0400 (EDT)

Went to the annual Creative Writing Awards at Helen White on the UW campus last night.  Was surprised to see that this is the 27th year of the Awards.  The August Derleth Award is the second-oldest continuing award presented by the UW English department.  The Hill-Mueller Award is in its 54th year.

The 2011 Winner of the August Derleth Creative Writing Award is . . . Yuko Sakata, a young Japanese woman who won it in the Fiction category.  She had not known about August Derleth or read WALDEN WEST, so I gave her a copy of the book and one of our brochures.  Yuko was also one of the recipients of a $3,000 award given out by the University as a whole to qualified candidates from all departments.  There are only 20 of these given out every year and the UW English students won 6 of them this year.

There was a "new" award presented last night as well.  The "Juan" Wallace Award is given to the person who does the most publicity for the UW Reading Series throughout the year.  "Juan" Wallace is the secret brother of Ron Wallace and has been living in a cupboard below the stairwell next to Ron Wallace's office since "Juan" was a young wizard...er, boy.