(You can tell I'm gay because as soon as I typed that title I got the theme to the musical Good News stuck in my head.)
And now I, a Felix Pollak award-winning writer, shall explain just exactly what the Felix Pollak award is.
My senior thesis, a collection of poems called "Stalin's Atom Bomb" won the Felix Pollak award for the best book-length manuscript of original poetry. It's a thousand dollar prize and something incredibly kickass for my CV. It's one of the nicer contests in the country for unpublished authors. Unofficially, it will pretty much guarantee my place in any creative writing graduate program in the country, and more or less ensure that I won't have to pay for it.
In other good news, I'm now employed! While I haven't joined the 9-5 hustle and bustle workaday grind of the rats scurrying around their offices striving for that elusive metaphoric cheese, I will be picking up a paycheck twice a month for my part-time services at the museum of contemporary art.
Go team me.
