Winners for the year are Nancy A. Henry, John Lawson and Martin Brossman.
The Ethel N. Fortner Writer and Community Awards began in 1986 to honor Ethel N. Fortner, who was a friend to writers and frequent contributor to the St. Andrews Review. Fortner earned a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in New York. After a career in teaching at the Oregon School of the Blind, she and her husband moved to Estacada, Ore. She committed herself to writing and became editor of Human Voice Quarterly. She believed that a full community embraced and encouraged the craft of writing.
Recipients will be honored and presented with the award in a ceremony in the Sinclair Dining Room by President Paul Baldasare prior to the weekly Fortner Writer’s Forum, where the recipients will read in Orange Dormitory lounge at 8 p.m.
Nancy A. Henry is a child advocacy attorney and college professor living in Westbrook, Maine. She has also served as the Assistant Attorney General of Maine. Five times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor and have appeared in many small press publications worldwide. MuscleHead Press published Henry’s chapbooks, Anything Can Happen and Hard; Eros/Ion and Europe on $5 a Day are Moon Pie Press, and Sheltering Pines Press published her full-length collections, Our Lady of Let’s all Sing and Who You Are. Henry teaches creative writing and other English and Communications courses at the University of Southern Main and Thomas College. She graduated St. Andrews in 1982.
Lawson’s first play, “Amis and Amiles,” was performed in 1981 by the New Dominion Theater of the Deaf under the direction of Bob Blumenstein (SA ’75). Lawson completed his MA in English at VCU in 1986 and his Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric at Northern Illinois University in 1996.
Lawson taught Creative Writing at St. Andrews between 1996 and 1998 and currently teaches at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA. Lawson was founding coordinator of Robert Morris’s Communications and has served in a wide variety of print and online venues. St. Andrews College Press published his first collection of poetry, entitled Generations, in 2007.
Martin Brossman serves as a success coach, speaker, trainer and author focusing on social media to aid the growth of small businesses and entrepreneurs around the region. Among his successes, Brossman has earned the “IBM Means Service” top customer service award during his seven year tenure with IBM. Brossman began coaching in 1995 and developed a certification/mentoring program in 2003.
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