LAURA DURNELL

* Finalist, Hobson Foundation People's Choice Dream Grant, Gettysburg, PA, 2006.
* The Gina Guerra Scholarship, Casa Italiana, Chicago, IL., 2005.
* Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant, 2005.
* Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for National Fiction, Rinehart Fund/​George Mason University, 2004.
* C-SPAN Archive Grant, Washington, D.C., 2004.
* The Notorious Fellowship for Literary Fiction, The
Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, AR.,
2004.
* Residency Fellow, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy
Hollow, Eureka Springs, AR., 2004.
* Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council,
2005, 2004.
* Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) grants,
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 2004,
2003, and 2002.
* Samuel Ostrowsky Humanities Award, Roosevelt
University, 2001.
* Residency Fellow, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest,
IL., 2001, 2000.
* Ragdale Foundation/​Union League Civic and Arts
Foundation Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation, 2000.
* Playboy College Fiction Contest, Third Prize,
Chicago, IL./​New York, NY., 1998.
* Chicago Women in Publishing 22nd Annual Awards
Competition, Issues Relevant to Women category, First
Prize, Chicago, IL., 1995.