Lex Williford, former bilingual MFA program chair and winner of the 1993 Iowa Short Fiction Award and the 2016 Rose Metal Flash Fiction chapbook award, teaches at UT, El Paso.
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Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship - Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM (06/06/2021)
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Jane Geuting Camp Fellowship - Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (05/21/2018)
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2018 Petrichor Reprint Award, Semi-Finalist - Petrichor magazine, the first literary magazine sponsored by Audible.com. (05/01/2018)
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Judge for the Beacon Street Award, Redivider Magazine - Redivider Magazine (09/25/2017)
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Judge, Travel Writing essays, 2017 UTEP Department of Creative Writing Awards - Department of Creative Writing (02/01/2017-02/28/2017)
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Judge, UT Board of Regents Undergraduate Award in Creative Writing, UTEP, February 2017 - UT Board of Regents (02/01/2017-02/28/2017)
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2017 Pushcart Prize Nomination, “The Pool” [“Eveline’s Pool” in the novel in stories I’m writing] Elm Leaves Journal, 2017. - Elm Leaves Journal (01/01/2017)
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Guest Editor, Smokelong Quarterly, December 12-18, 2016. - Smokelong Quarterly (12/01/2016-12/31/2016)
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2015 10th Annual Rose Metal Press Flash Fiction Chapbook Award - Rose Metal Press (12/31/2015)
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2014 UTEP Arts and Humanities Career Enhancement Award - UTEP Provost's Office (01/09/2015)
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Judge for the Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Contest - University of Florida Press (06/13/2013)
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2012, “Superman on the Roof,” Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train, Short-Short Story Award - Glimmer Train Stories (03/27/2013)
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2011, “Broken Bow,” Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train, Short-Short Story Award - Glimmer Train Stories (09/26/2012)
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Squaw Valley Writers Conference, Screenwriting Scholarship - 2004, “Hotel Mariposa,” Squaw Valley Writers Conference (07/01/2004)
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2002, “Nate and Drake,” Finalist, 2001 Writers Digest Short-Short Story Award - Writers' Digest (03/01/2003)
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2002, “Nate and Drake,” Finalist, Glimmer Train, Short-Short Story Award - Glimmer Train Stories (03/01/2003)
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2003, “A Cross for Sister Mary Joseph,” Finalist, Glimmer Train, Short-Short Story Award (03/01/2003)
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2001, “Hotel Mariposa,” Second Round (top ten percent), Heart of Film Screenplay Competition, 2001 Austin Film Festival. - Austin Film Festival (03/01/2001)
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2001, “Hotel Mariposa,” Semifinalist, Quarterfinalist, Texas Film Institute Screenwriting Fellowship - Texas Film Institute (03/01/2001)
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1999, 2000 “Hotel Mariposa,” Semifinalist, Screenwriting Fellowship, The Writer’s Film Project, Chesterfield Film Co. - Chesterfield Film Company (03/01/2000)
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1999, “Hotel Mariposa,” Semifinalist, Screenwriting Fellowship, The Sundance Film Festival Screenwriting Contest. - Sundance Film Festival (03/01/1999)
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1998, Special Mention for “Jesse,” in The Pushcart Prizes, XXII. - Pushcart Prizes` (03/01/1998)
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1997, Screenwriting Fellowship, Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley, CA. - Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference (05/01/1997)
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1997 Pushcart Prize nomination, by Michael Martone, for Pushcart Prizes, XXII. - Pushcart Prizes (03/01/1997)
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1997, Pushcart Prize nomination, American Literary Review, by Lee Martin, for Pushcart Prizes, XXII. - Pushcart Prizes` (03/01/1997)
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1997, Pushcart Prize nomination, by Caroline Kizer, for Pushcart Prizes, XXII. - Pushcart Prizes (03/01/1997)
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1995, 100 Distinguished Stories of 1994, “Macauley’s Thumb”: Best American Short Stories 1995. - Best American Short Stories (03/01/1995)
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1994, Pushcart Prize nomination, by Rick Bass, for Pushcart Prizes, XIX. - Pushcart Prizes (03/01/1994)
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1994, Shane Stevens Fellowship in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury, VT. - Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (03/01/1994)
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1993, Iowa School of Letters Short Fiction Award for Macauley’s Thumb, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Francine Prose. - University of Iowa Press (03/01/1993)
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1993, National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. - National Endowment of the Arts (01/01/1993)
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1990 & 1991, Finalist, Screenwriting Fellowship, The Writer’s Film Project, Chesterfield Film Co., Amblin Entertainment, Universal Studios, Hollywood, CA. - 1990 & 1991, Finalist, Screenwriting Fellowship, The Writer’s Film Project, Chesterfield Film Co., Amblin Entertainment, Universal Studios, Hollywood, CA. (03/01/1991)
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1991, Honorable Mention for “Possum Kingdom” in the World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, Florida State University. - Florida State University, Sundog (03/01/1991)
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1990, Special Mention for “Taking Nonie Home,” in The Pushcart Prizes, XV: Best of the Small Presses, 1990-1991. - Pushcart Prizes (03/01/1990)
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1988/1989, Kansas Quarterly/Kansas Arts Commission First Award Story for “Taking Nonie Home,” Mary Morris, Judge. - Kansas Quarterly/Kansas Arts Commission (03/01/1989)
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1986, Baucum-Fulkerson Award for Fiction, University of Arkansas MFA Program. - University of Arkansas MFA Program (03/01/1986)
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1986, Scholarship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury, VT. - Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (03/01/1986)
