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PORTLAND, Maine

Jefferson Navicky wins Maine Literary Award for original dramatic piece

Jefferson Navicky
Jefferson Navicky

Jefferson Navicky, an archivist for UNE鈥檚 Maine Women Writers Collection, recently won a Maine Literary Award from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance in the Drama category.

Navicky鈥檚 piece, Redwing Solitaire, is a cycle of five short plays about leaving one鈥檚 home and how one can never really escape one鈥檚 home.

This year鈥檚 awards, which honor books published during 2016 as well as adult and youth manuscripts in drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, brought in a near record-breaking number of submissions, with more than 150 works entered in the contest.

The winners of the 2017 Maine Literary Awards were revealed live at a ceremony on June 1 at SPACE Gallery in downtown Portland.

 

To apply, visit www.une.edu/admissions

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