Six emerging women writers win $25,000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards

Six women writers win $25,000 Jaffe awards

NEW YORK — Three poets, two fiction writers and a nonfiction writer have won $25,000 prizes given annually to emerging women authors.

Poets Vievee (VY’-vee) Francis, Janice Harrington and Heidy Steidlymayer (STY’-del-my-er); fiction writers Lori Ostlund and Helen Phillips; and nonfiction writer Krista Bremer (BREH’-mer) are this year’s recipients of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards. The awards were announced Wednesday.

Previous winners of the award, founded in 1995, include ZZ Packer and Lan Samantha Chang.