{"id":26414,"date":"2018-10-05T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=26414"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:56:40","slug":"thomas-wolfe-scholars-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=26414","title":{"rendered":"Two awarded Thomas Wolfe Scholarship in creative writing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left, Grace Morse and Savannah Bradley are the 2018 Thomas Wolfe Scholars. (photo by Sarah Boyd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two first-year students \u2014 Grace Morse of New Orleans and Savannah Bradley of Charlotte \u2014 were awarded the 2018 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, a full, four-year merit scholarship in creative writing in the College of Arts & Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

The scholarship program was established in 2001 with a gift to the College from alumnus Frank Borden Hanes Sr. of Winston-Salem. It honors Carolina graduate Thomas Wolfe, best known for his 1929 novel, Look Homeward, Angel.<\/em><\/p>\n

Morse graduated from New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. She participated in Duke University\u2019s Talent Identification Program (TiP) from the seventh to 10th<\/sup> grade. She also participated in LitFest New Orleans, a Tulane Writer\u2019s Workshop and the International Writing Program\u2019s \u201cBetween the Lines\u201d summer program.<\/p>\n

Bradley graduated from Central Cabarrus High School\u2019s STEM Magnet Program. She served as a staff writer at THINGS <\/em>Magazine, as chief art director and pop culture writer at Guided <\/em>Magazine, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Haloscope <\/em>Magazine, a digital and print platform created by (and for) young creatives, that promotes unity, community and liberation through the arts.<\/p>\n

Morse considers Joan Didion, Nicolas Guillen and Julia de Burgos among her favorite authors. When not writing, she loves to bake and enjoys contemporary dancing, listening to classical piano and learning foreign languages.<\/p>\n

In a one-sentence (50 words or less) biography on her application, Morse wrote: \u201cI try to exist in the most forms possible: as daughter, as writer, as black woman with Indigenous ancestors and some white people down the line, as thinker, as intellectual nudist, as lover, as a burst of light roaming the cosmos through literature and love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradley counts Margaret Atwood, Flannery O\u2019Connor and Tennessee Williams among her favorite authors. In her free time, she loves painting, yoga, listening to podcasts and collecting vinyl records.<\/p>\n

For her one-sentence biography, Bradley wrote: \u201cI am a writer, wanderess, mercenary, creator, warrior, lotus eater, flawed gossamer girl but, above all else: I am a phoenix resurrected from the belly of the blue flame, stronger each and every time I find myself destroyed and reborn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marianne Gingher, professor of English and comparative literature and co-director of the scholarship program, said the committee was impressed with both students.<\/p>\n

Readers of Morse\u2019s work described her as a fearlessly original writer with an \u201cuncanny ability\u201d to write poems in such an array of voices that no two poems ever sounded alike, Gingher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn much of her work readers can feel the multicultural heartbeat of her beloved and complicated hometown, New Orleans,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were impressed by her deft and incisive nonfiction as well, especially one essay containing startling insights on Joan Didion. Already adept at taking risks with her art, she is a young writer of exceptional talent and courage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gingher said few young writers can sustain energy in long-lined poems the way Bradley does.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer poetry demonstrates an admirable command of technical devices, stylization and formatting that come together to present a thoroughly modern, yet accessible poem,\u201d she said. \u201cHer subjects are often watchers, perceptive speakers who catch the small details that make her poems fresh and captivating. And the extent to which she has participated as an author and editor of publications shows that she understands that creative writing should be a community of collaborative individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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