#BHBW author Nicholas Digiovani is awarded @VCCA fellowship @nidigiovanni

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Nicholas DiGiovanni, author of the essay collection “Man Has Premonition of Own Death,” published in June by Blue Heron Book Works, has been awarded a month-long fellowship and writing residency at the prestigious Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

VCCA fellowships aim to intensify creativity by freeing more than 350 artists a year, up to 25 at a time, from the disruptions of everyday life. Fellows have a private room and studio, with three meals a day.

Fellowships have been awarded to more than 4,000 writers, composers and visual artists nationwide and from 63 different countries since 1971. Honors accorded VCCA Fellows have included MacArthur genius grants, National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy in Rome, and the Guggenheim and Pollock-Krasner Foundations.

Admission to VCCA is highly selective, based on a review of applications by panels of professional artists. There are separate panels for each category (poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, playwrights, performance, film and video artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, installation artists, composers and cross-disciplinary artists) with over 50 panelists serving at any one time.

DiGiovanni plans to work on a new novel while in residence at VCCA.

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"How strange that a book so unrelentingly about death should contain so much life. But that’s what we have in Man Has Premonition of Own Death, which stands athwart decay and demands to know why."