AWP is pleased to announce James Arthur of University City, MO and Terri Scullen of Alexandria, VA as winners of the 2011 WC&C Scholarship Competition. They will each receive a $500 scholarship to attend a WC&C member program of their choice.

James Arthur's poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry. He has received a Wallace Stegner fellowship and the Discovery/The Nation Prize. His first book, Charms Against Lightning will soon be published by Copper Canyon Press. During 2012, he will be in residence at the Amy Clampitt House in Lenox, MA.

Terri Scullen's short stories have appeared in Gargoyle, Pearl, The Baltimore Review, Literary Mama, Storyglossia, and the anthology, Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women. She is an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine.

2011 WC&C Winners