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The Lillian E. Smith Foundation has announced two 2011 winners of its first annual Writer-in-Service Award, named in memory of the Clayton, Georgia, writer. Smith is also one of Georgia's writers honored by the Southern Literary Trail. The 2011 Award recipients are Kyes Stevens of Waverly, Alabama, and Foster Dickson of Montgomery, Alabama. The winners will receive a two-week residency at the Lillian E. Smith Center in Clayton during the summer of 2011 in addition to honoraria.

The Award is open to residents of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi who work to advance writing and the arts through public service careers or volunteer work. Foster Dickson teaches creative writing at the Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery. He was named Secondary Teacher of the Year by the Alabama PTA association for the 2009-2010 school year. He earned a B.A. in English from Auburn University at Montgomery in 1996 and completed his Master of Liberal Arts degree at AUM in 2008.

Kyes Stevens earned her B.A. in English from Auburn in 1994, followed by an M.A. in women's history and an M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Emerging Arts Leaders of Alabama, and she has served on the city council for Waverly, Alabama.

	Foster Dickson		Kindling Not Yet Split by Foster Dickson		Kyes Stevens		I Just Make People Up: Ramblins With Clark Walker by Kyes Stevens

The mission of the Lillian E. Smith Center for the Creative Arts is to offer a place where gifted creative artists and scholars in various disciplines may find the conditions of quiet solitude and privacy in which to pursue their work. The Center in Clayton offers each resident a furnished cottage for those pursuits. For most her life, Smith fulfilled her own creative destinies, as a writer and a humanitarian, at her home in the mountains of North Georgia. It was Smith's vision that encouraged the Foundation to develop an artist's retreat on her home site.

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