{"id":147613,"date":"2024-02-29T08:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=147613"},"modified":"2024-02-29T08:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:54:47","slug":"wright-state-faculty-member-and-author-erin-flanagan-wins-ohio-arts-council-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/02\/29\/wright-state-faculty-member-and-author-erin-flanagan-wins-ohio-arts-council-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State faculty member and author Erin Flanagan wins Ohio Arts Council award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Erin Flanagan is an award-winning author and professor of English at Wright State University.<\/p><\/div>\n

Erin Flanagan, Ph.D., an award-winning author and professor of English at Wright State University, received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.<\/p>\n

The Individual Excellence Awards program recognizes outstanding accomplishments by artists in a variety of disciplines. Awards allow artists to experiment and explore their art forms, develop skills and advance their careers.<\/p>\n

The Ohio Arts Council awarded 75 grants to Ohio artists working in choreography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, music composition, playwriting\/screenplays and poetry. This year, nearly 500 applications were submitted by artists across the state.<\/p>\n

Flanagan said she is honored and humbled to receive an Individual Excellence Award.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy submission was the opening of a new novel I\u2019m really nervous and excited about, one I feel I\u2019m pouring my heart into,\u201d she said. \u201cTo have it validated in this way means the world. I\u2019m hoping to get to Nebraska this summer to continue research and this grant will make that possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flanagan won the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author<\/a> for her 2021 thriller \u201cDeer Season.\u201d Presented by the Mystery Writers of America, the Edgar Awards celebrate the best mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced each year.<\/p>\n

“Deer Season” was also named a finalist for the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery and the Midwest Book Award in Fiction in the Literary\/Contemporary\/Historical category.<\/p>\n

Flanagan followed up \u201cDeer Season\u201d with \u201cBlackout,\u201d which was selected as an Amazon First Reads, in 2022 and \u201cCome with Me\u201d in 2023.<\/p>\n

She has also published two collections of short stories: \u201cIt\u2019s Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories\u201d and \u201cThe Usual Mistakes.\u201d Her stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Colorado Review, The Southern Review and Prairie Schooner. She has held fellowships with Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, UCross, and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences.<\/p>\n

As a faculty member in the School of Humanities and Cultural Studies in the College of Liberal Arts, Flanagan teaches Introduction to Fiction Writing and Advanced Fiction Writing and special topic courses that include novel writing, narrative time and fiction, and creative nonfiction.<\/p>\n

She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and her Ph.D. in English with a specialization in creative writing from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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