LAURA DURNELL

List of Awards, Grants, and Honors

* 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.

Selected Works

Fiction
Needs
Originally appeared in ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) in 2000. The journal mistakenly listed it as creative non-fiction in ACM. My dad is happy to hear that this narrative is fiction. Click on link to read.
Regina Leigh
Originally published in Room of One's Own in 2000. Placed third in Playboy's 1998 College Fiction Contest. Click on link to read.
Magazine and Newspaper Articles
The Times of Northwest Indiana
List of feature articles originally published in The Times of Northwest Indiana and links to read five of those articles.
Time
Click on the links to read the feature brites I wrote as an editorial intern.
Chicago Review
This originally appeared in the Chicago Review. Click on link to read.
Book, Music, and Art Reviews
Book reviews
Book magazine
List of published reviews.
Essays
Facts on File Companion to the American Novel
Click on the PDFs to read my essays that appear in the Facts on File Companion to American Novel. Clinck on the link to order the book. This title can also be ordered by clicking on the image and link on my main page.
Awards, Grants, and Honors
Awards, Grants, and Honors
Listing of various awards for my writing and teaching.