Congratulations to Hayan Charara

RAWI Member Hayan Charara is among the recipients for literature fellowships, for poetry, from the National Endowment for the Arts for 2009. The fellowship is a $25,000 award, given to encourage "the production of new work and allowing writers the time and means to write."

More on the NEA fellowships can be found here:

http://www.nea.gov/news/news08/Announce12-08.html