Madeline “Maddie” Norris of Columbia, S.C., has been awarded a 2013 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, a full four-year merit scholarship in creative writing, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Madeline “Maddie” Norris of Columbia, S.C., has been awarded a 2013 Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, a full four-year merit scholarship in creative writing, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Norris, an incoming first-year student at UNC, graduated from Heathwood Hall Episcopal School. She won a 2012 Scholastic Art and Writing Award honorable mention for flash fiction from The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. The nonprofit organization identifies teenage writers with exceptional talent. Previous Scholastic winners include such celebrated writers as Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates and Sylvia Plath.
“I don’t write because I want to. I write because I have to, because I would be driven to madness if I didn’t,” Norris wrote in her scholarship application. “… If I didn’t write, I would lose the clothing of my flesh and sanity. So I write. I write because I am hopelessly human.”
The scholarship program was established in 2001 with a gift to UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences from the late Frank Borden Hanes Sr. of Winston-Salem, a UNC alumnus. It honors Carolina graduate Thomas Wolfe, best known for his 1929 novel, “Look Homeward, Angel.”
UNC College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu
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