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LCSC's Johnson wins NEA Fellowship award
William (Bill) Johnson, a professor of English at Lewis-Clark State College, recently won one of the nation's highest writing awards, a $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.
Johnson was one of 50 winners from more than 1,300 applicants for the writing awards. A panel of 12 reads through the submitted anonymous works and select the winners based solely on the work.
"It's very encouraging," Johnson told the Lewiston Tribune about winning the award. "Writing is a solitary endeavor. ... The core of it is a solitary thing. When the time comes to give something back to the world, you hope the world wants to read it."
Johnson, 61, was Idaho Writer in Residence from 1998 to 2001. His 2000 book of poems, "Out of the Ruins," won the Idaho Book Award that year. He says he is peddling a book of essays on the natural world and working on another book of poems.
The award money is to be used to support creative work. Johnson says he hasn't decided how he will spend it, possibly to travel.
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