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Winners of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference First Annual Donald Everett
Axinn Fiction and Poetry Contributor Scholarships
Kaitline Solimine and Hope Snyder Maxwell are the winners of the first annual
Donald Everett Axinn Fiction and Poetry Contributor Scholarships. The Donald
Everett Axinn Fiction and Poetry Contributor Scholarships are awarded to Bread
Loaf Writers’ Conference general contributors in support of their return to Bread
Loaf in a consecutive year. The scholarships cover the cost of tuition. The
scholarship, which will be awarded annually to a fiction writer and a poet, cover the
cost of tuition.
The Donald Everett Axinn Fiction and Poetry Contributor Scholarships have been
made possible through a generous bequest from the Estate of Donald Everett Axinn,
a distinguished fiction writer and poet, Middlebury College Alumnus, and one of the
College’s most significant supporters of creative writing, literature, and the arts.
Winners’ Biographies:
Kaitlin Solimine holds a BA from Harvard University and an MA from the University
of Southern California, both in East Asian Studies with an emphasis on Chinese
language, culture, and history. She studied international relations at Beijing
University as a Harvard-Yenching Scholar, wrote and edited the travel series, Let’s
Go: China (St. Martin’s Press), and received a Fulbright creative grant to research her
first novel, The Soap Tree. She is currently an MFA student at UC-San Diego, where
she teaches undergraduate writing, continues work on her novel, and explores more
experimental forms.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Hope Maxwell Snyder received an MA in Latin American
Literature from Johns Hopkins and a Ph.D. in Spanish Medieval Literature from the
University of Manchester. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Alehouse
Press, The Comstock Review, The Gettysburg Review, International Poetry Review,
OCHO, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, and other journals. In 2009 Hope won a
scholarship to attend Western Michigan University’s program in Prague. This year
she was awarded a fellowship at The Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers.
Hope is the founder and director of the Sotto Voce Poetry Festival in
Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Guidelines for the 2011 Donald Everett Axinn Fiction and Poetry Contributor
Scholarships will be available in the fall.