“I’m in a better place now,” said Juneau writer Ernestine Shaankaláx̱t’ Hayes, after receiving a $50,000 fellowship which will help her recover from years of costs following a 2018 house fire.
. Her writing was on hold while she spent countless hours negotiating with contractors and insurance. She lived in hotels and apartments, using her life savings to fix the house. she was awarded last week will allow her to recover from her loss and get back to writing.
“I was here and there throughout and didn’t have any time to set up a computer and have a writing space at all,” Hayes said. “But I was writing on my iPad and writing notes to myself and doing a lot of texting to myself when things would occur.”“This fellowship allows me to catch up with what I owe the IRS on all this, all these expenses for rehabbing the house and has allowed me to be able to afford to rent my own little apartment,” Hayes said. “I’m in a better place now.
This is exactly the sort of thing the fellowship was made for. It’s awarded to artists in many fields, from architecture to theater to writing, at any stage of their careers. Getting fellowships and awards like this has given Hayes more than funding, she said. It has made her feel valued. , I realized that I was part of a community, which is something that I never fully felt throughout my life,” Hayes said. “And it made me feel valued.” “This thought came to me that there are beings in the spoken forest that are relatives and they are holding for us everything that we think that we have lost,” Hayes said.
She kept track of these ideas through the chaos of losing her home. Now, with this award, she’s closer to putting them to paper.
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