Creative writing scholarship winners read at Malaprop’s, April 17

Winners of UNC Asheville’s undergraduate writing scholarship will read at Malaprop’s on Friday, April 17, at 7 p.m.

Press release from UNCA:

UNC Asheville’s undergraduate writing scholarship winners will present their works at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 17, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. The event is free and open to the public. Authors include Emily Bonner, Sarah Gibson, Kimberly LaBombard and Jozef Lisowski.

Emily Bonner, an Asheville native, is a rising senior majoring in literature at UNC Asheville and recipient of the Topp/Grillot Poetry Scholarship. Bonner also is pursuing teaching licensure for grades 6-12.

Sarah Gibson, also a recipient of the Topp/Grillot Poetry Scholarship, is a junior at UNC Asheville. Her poetry has been published in Words Dance online magazine.

Kimberly LaBombard, also a winner of the Topp/Grillot Poetry Scholarship, recently graduated from UNC Asheville with a major in literature, and is currently employed as a researcher for a start-up website.

Jozef Lisowski is a senior literature major and anthropology minor at UNC Asheville, and recipient of the Comfort Scholarship for fiction writing. Lisowski is a member of Metabolism, UNC Asheville’s student arts collective, and his poems have appeared in FreezeRay Poetry, decomP, Headwaters, and the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, among other journals.

This event is sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program. For more information visit agc.unca.edu/great-smokies-writing-program or call 828.251.6099.