Ethel Fortner Awards

The Ethel Fortner Awards are named for writer Ethel Fortner. The awards recognize persons who have been outstanding contributors to the writing community. They were created in 1986 by St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina. [ cite web
url = http://www.laurinburgexchange.com/articles/2007/11/16/news/news01.txt
title = Writers honored
author = Scott Witten
work = Laurinburg Exchange
date = 2007-11-15
accessdate = 2008-07-01 ] [ cite web
url = http://www.sapc.edu/PDF/pdf/Fortner2002.pdf
title = Seventeenth Annual Fortner Awards
author = Merri Bass, Director
format = pdf
publisher = St. Andrews Presbyterian College
date = 2002-12-11 ] The awards occur annually in November or December.

Recipients

*Charleen Whisnat Swansea (1986)
*Martha Gibson (1987)
*Elizabeth Stevenson Ives (1988)
*Mary Belle Campbell / Grace L. Gibson (1989)
*Rolfe Neill / Roy Park / Roy Parker, Jr. (1990)
*Geneva Overholser (1991)
*Ann Deagon / Charles Joyner / Yoko Mishima (1992)
*Charles Edward Eaton / Gladys Owings Hughes (1993) / The Honorable Robert M. Scott (1993)
*Margaret Boothe Baddour / William C. Friday / Mary Kratt (1994)
*John M. Ehle, Jr. / Evalyn Pierpoint Gill / Frank Borden Hanes (1995)
*Betty Hodges / W.D. White / Emily Herring Wilson (1996)
*Doris Betts / Susan Ketchin / John Foster West (1997)
*Charles Fort / Judy Goldman / Elizabeth Spencer (1998)
*Eleanor Brawley / Michael Mott / Tom Patterson (1999)
*Frank Barrows / Stevie Daniels / John Robinson (2000)
*David Bunn / Rebecca Copeland / Robert Creeley / Hiroaki Sato / Beth Copeland Vargo (2001)
*John Craig / Kemp Gregory / Glenna Luschei / Heather Ross Miller (2002)
*Robert Busko / Paul Dosal / Marie Gilbert (2003)
*Barbara Epler / Terrence Grimes / Mary Regan (2004)
*Alan Hines (2005)
*Theodore Enslin / Howard McCord / Lindsay Thompson (2006)
*Nancy Bradberry / Dot Coble / Todd Davis / Robert Malloy (2007)

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