Gilford native receives Rona Jaffe Writers Award

August 31, 2005
Citizen Online -- Laconia, New Hampshire

Fiction writer and Gilford native Rebecca Curtis was recently one of six recipients of the 2005 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Awards, given annually to women writers in the early stages of their careers.
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The awards of $10,000 will be presented to the six recipients in New York on Sept. 22.
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{Curtis} plans to begin a novel based on the memoirs of Azni Gostonian, an Armenian woman who survived the Turkish genocide by marrying a Turk and who eventually escaped with the help of a Turkish woman who befriended her. She ended up in Manchester where she became a close friend of Curtis' grandmother.

Curtis plans to use her Writers Award for research and travel to Armenia.
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