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June 12-14, 2008: Co-founder/Co-Producer Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival
For more information about this historic event visit www.mixedrootsfilmandliteraryfestival.org.
All events FREE!
May 2008: WINNER BARBARA KINGSOLVER'S BELLWETHER PRIZE FOR LITERATURE OF SOCIAL CHANGE
April 2008: Finalist Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change 2008
"Fiction has a unique capacity to bring difficult issues to a broad readership on a personal level, creating empathy in a reader's heart for the theoretical stranger. Its capacity for invoking moral and social responsibility is enormous. Throughout history, every movement toward a more peaceful and humane world has begun with those who imagined the possibilities. The Bellwether Prize seeks to support the imagination of humane possibilities. Barbara Kingsolver, founder"
November 2007: Download audio (wma file) of Heidi Durrow reading (15 minutes) at New York Public Library.
November 2007: Readings in New York City. November 13, 2007 at Noon: Voices of the Rainbow: Reading with Monique Truong. Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus,
Health Sciences Building, Room 119. Free and open to the public.
November 14, 2007 at 6:30pm: Biracial Writers Speak: Reading with Kym Ragusa. New York Public Library--Mid-Manhattan Branch (40th and 5th), 6th Floor. Free and open to the public.
September 2007: Meet me in Paris as I explore the city and look for Miss Lala thanks to the Elizabeth George Foundation.
September 2007: "Ethnic Lego Girls Carry Spears" published in Smokelong Quarterly along with an interview. Check it out.
August 2007: The Roth Endowment provides funding for Heidi W. Durrow to conduct research in Copenhagen for her short-story collection about interracial relationships between blacks and Danes at the beginning of the 1900s.
July 2007: Video of Heidi W. Durrow's Reading at the Loving Decision Conference
June 2007:
June 2007: Bret Lott (author of Oprah Book Club Choice "Jewel") chose Heidi W. Durrow's Low-sky Dreaming for an Honorable Mention Quarterly West's Novella Competition.
May 2007: The American Antiquarian Society has awarded Heidi W. Durrow a Creative Artist Fellowship. The prestigious fellowship provides funding for Heidi W. Durrow to conduct research for her novel-in-progress Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando at the Society's library.
April 2007: The American-Scandinavian Foundation has awarded Heidi W. Durrow a Creative Artist Fellowship. The generous grant will provide all funding necessary to travel to Denmark for a month-long research trip for her short-story collection in-progress about relationships between African-Americans and Danes at the turn of the 19th century.
