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…creative process, and helps you complete your work. Currently on a 22-city tour for his most recent novel, City of Refuge, Tom is playing up the VCCA in bookstores, and…
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NEA Fellowships for Military Veterans
…connect with these lost voices through my practice as a musician, as well as a poet. The opportunity to converse with other artists was invaluable.” https://www.vcca.com/veteran-artist-jackie-munn-joins-vcca/ https://www.vcca.com/visual-artist-and-veteran-davey-mann-comes-to-vcca-in-january/ https://www.vcca.com/an-update-on-recent-collateral-reparations-fellows/ https://www.vcca.com/nea-supported-writer-anna-stull-speaks-about-her-experiences-in-iraq/ https://www.vcca.com/nea-supported-military-veteran-writer-maurice-decaul-at-vcca/…
Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship
…2023: Thomas Dai, writer 2022: Nicholas Boggs, writer 2021: Carter Sickels, writer 2019: Daniel Handal, visual artist 2018: Lydia Conklin, writer 2017: Cris Beam, writer https://www.vcca.com/jenn-shapland-named-2024-recipient-of-vccas-steven-petrow-and-julie-petrow-cohen-lgbtq-fellowship/ https://www.vcca.com/writer-thomas-dai-awarded-2023-steven-petrow-and-julie-petrow-cohen-lgbtq-fellowship/ https://www.vcca.com/writer-nicholas-boggs-named-2022-recipient-of-vccas-newly-endowed-steven-petrow-lgbtq-fellowship-for-his-biography-in-progress-of-james-baldwin/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jFFIaeNtUg&t=20s https://www.vcca.com/inaugural-steven-petrow-lgbtq-fellow-cris-beam/…