The Ethel Fortner Awards

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[edit] The Fortner Awards

Ethel Nestell Fortner (1907–1987), friend of writers and herself an accomplished poet, critic and editor, was born a coal miner’s daughter in Colorado. Her formal education was completed with an M.A. from UNC at Wilmington University in New York, where she met her husband, Larry. After a career teaching at The Oregon School of the Blind, they retired to a second career in farming in Estacada, Oregon, where Ethel began a commitment to writing and soon became editor of Human Voice Quarterly. She was a frequent contributor to the St. Andrews Review and the earliest benefactor of the St. Andrews College Press, visiting the campus often. Ethel believed that a full community embraced and encouraged the craft of writing in every way and form. The Fortner Award was instituted in 1986.

[edit] Fortner Award Recipients

Charleen Whisnat Swansea (1986) Martha Gibson (1987) Elizabeth Stevenson Ives (1988) Mary Belle Campbell (1989) / Grace L. Gibson (1989) Rolfe Neill (1990) / Roy Park (1990) / Roy Parker, Jr. (1990) Geneva Overholser (1991) Ann Deagon (1992) / Charles Joyner (1992) / Yoko Mishima (1992) Charles Edward Eaton (1993) / Gladys Owings Hughes (1993) The Honorable Robert M. Scott (1993) Margaret Boothe Baddour (1994) / William C. Friday (1994) Mary Kratt (1994) John M. Ehle, Jr. (1995) / Evalyn Pierpoint Gill (1995) Frank Borden Hanes (1995) Betty Hodges (1996) / W.D. White (1996) / Emily Herring Wilson (1996) Doris Betts (1997) / Susan Ketchin (1997) / John Foster West (1997) Charles Fort (1998) / Judy Goldman (1998) / Elizabeth Spencer (1998) Eleanor Brawley (1999) / Michael Mott (1999) / Tom Patterson (1999) Frank Barrows (2000) / Stevie Daniels (2000) / John Robinson (2000) David Bunn (2001) / Rebecca Copeland (2001) / Robert Creeley (2001) Hiroaki Sato (2001) / Beth Copeland Vargo (2001) John Craig (2002) / Kemp Gregory (2002) Glenna Luschei (2002) / Heather Ross Miller (2002) Robert Busko (2003) / Paul Dosal (2003) / Marie Gilbert (2003) Barbara Epler (2004) / Terrence Grimes (2004) / Mary Regan (2004) Alan Hines (2005) Theodore Enslin (2006) / Howard McCord (2006) / Lindsay Thompson (2006) Nancy Bradberry (2007) / Dot Coble (2007) / Todd Davis (2007) / Robert Malloy (2007)