Stadler Fellowships

Initiated in 1998, Stadler Fellowships offer a recent MFA or MA in poetry the opportunity to receive professional training in arts administration and literary editing. Stadler Fellowships are designed to balance the development of professional skills with time to complete a first book of poems. Stadler Fellows assist for twenty hours each week in the administration of the Stadler Center for Poetry and/or in the editing of West Branch, Bucknell's nationally distinguished literary journal. Fellows also work as staff members and instructors in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in June. The Fellowship stipend is $20,000. In addition, each Fellow is provided health insurance, office space in the Stadler Center, and housing. Depending on circumstances, Fellows are either housed in a furnished apartment in the Poet's Cottage or provided with a stipend to seek housing on their own in Lewisburg.

Several recent Stadler Fellows have published books or received other honors subsequent to their fellowships, including Erinn Batykefer (Allegheny, Monongahela, Red Hen Press), K.A. Hays (Dear Apocalypse and Early Creatures, Native Gods, Carnegie Mellon), Ron Mohring (Survivable World, Washington Prize), Will Schutt (Westerly, Yale Prize for Younger Poets), and Betsy Wheeler (Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room, National Poetry Review Press). Current Fellow Jamaal May is the winner of the 2012 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books for his book Hum.

This year, the Stadler Center will select one Fellow for the 2013–14 academic year. The Fellowship will extend from August 2013 through June 2014. The application deadline is October 1, 2012. For guidelines and to submit an application, please use the Stadler Center Application Portal at right.

 


Stadler Fellow 2012–13 (First Year)


Carolina Ebeid holds a degree from the Michener Center for Writers, where she served as poetry editor for the Bat City Review.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Agni-online, H_NGM_N and other journals.  She is currently at work on her first manuscript. 

 

 

 

 

 

Stadler Fellow 2012–13 (Second Year)

 

Jamaal May was raised by two auto workers in Detroit, MI, where he eventually taught poetry in public schools. After making a living as a self-taught poet and musician, Jamaal went on to publish two chapbooks, earn an MFA from Warren Wilson, and be featured in Callaloo, Indiana Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review among other journals, films, and broadcasts. He's the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Bucknell University, where he was named the 2011-2013 Stadler Fellow. His first full-length collection, Hum won the 2012 Beatrice Hawley Award and will be published fall 2013 by Alice James Books.

 

 

 

 

Former Stadler Fellows


1998-99 Kathy Murphy
1999-00 Michael Carlin
2000-01 Michael Carlin
2001-02 Ron Mohring
2002-03 Ron Mohring
2003-04 Rebecca Warner
2004-05 Rebecca Warner
2005-06 Betsy Wheeler
2006-07 Betsy Wheeler
2007-08 Erinn Batykefer
2008-09 Erinn Batykefer
2008-09 K. A. Hays
2009-10 K. A. Hays
2009-10 Will Schutt
2010-11 Will Schutt
2010-11 Diana Park
2011-12 Diana Park
2011-12 Jamaal May