NEW SHARON — The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance has announced Karin Schott of New Sharon as the recipient of the autumn 2015 Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship for Maine Writers.

Schott will attend the all-expenses paid MWPA 2015 Harvest Writers Retreat and work with instructor Elizabeth Peavey in the memoir workshop.

Schott works as a bookseller at Devaney, Doak and Garrett Booksellers in Farmington and blogs regularly for the Huffington Post. Schott’s personal essays have appeared in journals such as “Brain Child,” “Hip Mama,” and “Tap Root,” and her poetry has been published in several small journals.

The Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship for Maine Writers is a partnership between the Maine Community Foundation and the MWPA; the Maine Community Foundation provides funding and the MWPA administers the fellowships. Dibner Fellowships provide full funding to attend the MWPA’s Black Fly Writers Retreat in the spring, the Harvest Writers Retreat in the autumn and various workshops throughout the year.

Martin Dibner (1912-1992) was a novelist and arts administrator. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Dibner settled in Maine and in 1975 became the first director of the Joan Whitney Payson Gallery at Westbrook College in Portland. He was the author of nine novels, including “The Deep Six” (1953), “Showcase” (1958) and “Ransom Run” (1977).

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