Prizes awarded for 6 emerging female writers September 04, 2008 6:53 PM
CHARLESTON, W.Va.
A West Virginia woman is among six recipients of the 14th annual Rona Jaffe Foundation awards given to female writers.
The $25,000 grants were announced yesterday.
Among the winners is fiction writer Jolie Lewis of Richwood.
According to the Foundation, Lewis is finishing her first novel, "Farewell Avenue," which is set in Alaska and involves the murder of a cab driver. She's also planning a novel about a young mother in a struggling West Virginia town who tries to leave an abusive man.
The prizes to be handed out September 18th were created by novelist Rona Jaffe, who died in 2005.
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