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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

FICTION

February 14, 2010 - Scott Lax's short story, "Sales Call," won 2nd Place for Fiction Lit's (Cleveland's Literary Center) Muse Magazine 2010 Literary Competition.

March 2009 - The Hub City Writers Project announces "The Scott Lax Prize." The full-ride scholarship to the Wildacres Writers Conference was established in 2008 and is underwritten by Hillcrest Publications of Spartanburg, SC to honor novelist Scott Lax of Ohio."

1999 - The Year That Trembled, a Novel named Vermont Book of the Year, Runner-Up.

Dec. 1998 - The Year That Trembled, a Novel, named of of 1998’s “Milestones in Fiction by Denver Post.

1998 - Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Univ. of the South), Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Fiction

NON-FICTION

May 16, 2009 - In the Ohio Professional Writers 2009 Communication Contest, Scott Lax was awarded:

1. First Place for "Original Columns, General"

2. First Place for "Feature Story, Magazine"

3. Second Place for "Special Series, Print Media."

June 2008: Ohio Excellence in Journalism Award, statewide competition, sponsored by The Cleveland Press Club, Honorable Mention, Best Single Essay, Open Print

1993 - Bread Loaf Writer’ Conference (Middlebury College), Bernard J. O’Keefe Scholarship in Nonfiction

1994, 1995 - Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Staff Scholarship

FILM

2002 - Midwest Filmmaker of the Year, Cleveland International Film Festival

2002 - Producer’s Award, Winner, People’s Choice, Cincinnati International Film Festival

2002 - Producer’s Award, Winner, Best Regional Feature, Cincinnati International Film Festival

2002 - Bessie’s People’s Choice Award, Burlington, VT City Arts, Favorite Film

OTHERS

2002 - City of Cleveland Certificate of Congratulations for body of work

1999 - Named to fourteen-person list of Hiram College’s “Most Illustrious Alumni"

Welcome to The Chagrin Valley Writers' Workshop

UPDATE MARCH 10 2010...The Chagrin Valley Writers' Workshop Late Winter Session classes in fiction, nonfiction and manuscript are in session and closed out. Please check back soon for the Spring schedule of offerings. To check out Scott's teaching schedule for The Lit: Cleveland's Literary Center, click The Lit logo to the left.

The Chagrin Valley Writers' Workshop is in the brick building on the right at the base of the hill in downtown Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

A view of the beautiful natural falls in Chagrin Falls, right across from The Chagrin Valley Writers' Workshop.

Triangle Park in downtown Chagrin Falls, a stones throw from The Chagrin Valley Writers' Workshop

Special thanks to Tom Quesinberry for these photos of Chagrin Falls.

Scott Lax working at The Chagrin Valley Writers' Workshop (photo by Itamar Gat)

Selected Works

Nonfiction
Click here for a sample of published nonfiction by Scott Lax
Click here to read some of Scott's columns, essays and features, including the 2009 Ohio Professional Writers First Place Award-winning column and feature.
Fiction
Click here for more on "The Year That Trembled," a novel by Scott Lax
“One of 1998’s Milestones in Fiction--Powerful!”
--The Denver Post, Tom Walker, Book Editor
(Please click the link above to read more reviews)
Film
Click here for more on "The Year That Trembled," a feature film, source written and produced by Scott Lax
"The most important movie of the year." - The Ithaca Times (Please click the above link to read more reviews)
Theatre

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