English department

Horswell Publishing Award

The Goshen College English department has several publication awards available, because of a gift from Sushil and Christine Horswell Jain of Windsor, Ontario. In honor of Christine's parents, Mary and Dr. Richard Horswell of Elkhart, Ind. the Horswell Fellowship and Horswell Anthology provide a unique opportunity for students to gain publishing and editing experience.

The Horswell Fellowship is awarded to an English major, after being selected from among applicants who explain their goal to gain publishing experience.

The 2003-04 Horswell Fellow is Sarah R. Nelson

The Horswell Fellows have been:

Jesse Conrad, 2002-03

Jon Sommers, 2001-02

Rebecca Rich, 2000-01

Erin Clymer, 1999-00

Minda Kauffman, 1998-99

Erin Stoy, 1997-98

One Horswell Anthology is published each year from faculty submissions of manuscript proposals. Each anthology is a collection of student writing from a class that can be used as a text for future class offerings. Student editors gain valuable publishing skills by selecting, editing and producing the text.

The Horswell Anthology Series includes:

• Jason Witmer, ed. Goshen Portraits, no. 6, for Duane Stoltzfus' Advanced Reporting and Editing course.
  
• Deb Scott, ed. Land, Water Sky, no. 5, for Merry Lea and Creative Writing and the Natural World, taught by Todd Davis and Mary Linton.
  
• Rebecca Rich, ed, Case Studies in Ethnic Conflict: Creation of the "Other" as Historical Process (2000), no. 4, for Jan Bender Shetler's History of Ethnic Conflict course.
  
• Lisa Koop, ed., Having it Out with Poetry (1999), no. 3, for Ann Hostetler's Advanced Writing: Poetry course.
  
• Ron Stutzman, ed, Ethnographic Practice: Students' Essays in Cultural Anthropology (1998), no. 2, for his Cultural Anthropology course.
  
• Steve Yutzy, ed., Greeting the Dawn: An Anthology of New Mennonite Writing (1998), no. 1, from the first Mennonite/s Writing in the U.S. conference held at Goshen College in October 1997.