Tayari's Blog: Standing Ovations

Posted by TayariJones on August 11, 2008 10:19 AM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

for folks who read this blog! Keep the good news coming!

  • Joanne Sills has signed with an agent! Write her name down. Good things are ahead.
  • Kelly Kennedy got in touch when I sent out my SOS for Pink Oil, but she forgot to mention that she won the Hurston/Wright Award! I had to hear it in the street. Congrats, Kelly.
  • Carolyn Kellogg has earned her MFA degree.
  • Kwame Dawes's project Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica has been given an honorable mention for the Knight-Batten Awards!
  • Abdel Shakur is going to bring his brilliance to the country's youth. He's just graduated from his Teach for America training. So proud of him!

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