Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award!
We would like to thank all the wonderful people who so kindly contributed to the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award! We are absolutely thrilled that, once again, your donations were so generous that the final amount raised surpassed all expectations providing enough funding to invite and support two writers with outstanding potential to attend our next writers’ retreat in Reykjavík, Iceland, in April 2017. Applications for the 2017 Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award will open on the 1 September, so stay tuned for more information and updates soon. Thank you for all your amazing support!
The IWR Alumni Award Donors:
Anonymous
Jane Berman
Carol Binkowski
Charlotte Bolliger
Jennifer Cockrall-King
Gordon Elliott
Jennifer Eremeeva
Randver Fleckenstein
Jose R. Garcia
Erica Jacobs Green
Nina Hamza
Megan Herbert
Tonny Hollanders
Ásdís Ingólfsdóttir
Ellen Girardeau Kempler
Katharine Kroeber-Wiley
Wynne Kontos
Edna McNamara
Sabrine Modder
Dawn Mok
Jennifer Moore
Elizabeth Nunberg
Ruth Nybro
Elizabeth Pentland
Catherine (Cathy) Raphael
Eliza Reid
Lisa Gail Shannen
Jan Stanley
Liz Sterling
Kate Todd
Janice Trylinski
Martine van Bijlert
Molly Watson
Florence Wetzel
Sara Winokur
*Names in bold denote contributors gifting EUR 100 or more.
Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award: April Wolfe’s Story
The economy dive hit me hard. I’m a writer by trade, but not the fun kind, which left me little time to work on my own creative projects, let alone remember what they were. Going to a writing retreat was out of the question — who had the time or money? So when Eliza called to tell me I’d been granted an award to travel to Iceland and study with renowned authors, I nearly dropped to the floor.