Adjunct Faculty Awards: Boise State Adjunct Wins 2012 NEA Fellowship

by Kim O’Brien Two professors won National Endowment for the Arts fellowships for 2012: Alan Heathcock and Mitch Wieland. In the country only 40 writers were chosen out of 1,200 applicants. “I’m not surprised,” adjunct Professor of fiction writing, Alan Heathcock said. “I think there’s something special going on here, in general, all the writers have embraced this idea about quality and excellence and we actually think we should be writing something that matters.” Heathcock (right) graduated from the Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) program at Boise State. He has several short stories published in national magazines such as Zoetrope: All-Story, […]