An Eastern student recently won a prestigious award that will pay for her schooling while studying fiction writing at the University of Mississippi.
Ashley Mullins, a senior studying creative writing, was the winner of the 2014 John and Renée Grisham Fellowship Award. The fellowship is valued at $60,000 and will pay for her to continue her studies at Ole Miss, where she’ll pursue an MFA in fiction writing later this year. Read the full story.