Dana Wood Chaney Writers Fund Donation

Dana Wood Chaney was one of StoryStudio’s brightest lights, a wonderful novelist, an award-winning short story writer, and the inspiration behind so many of our classes and events. The Stories Matter Foundation awards the Dana Wood Chaney Writers Fund as a $1,500 tuition grant to a student who is working on a novel, memoir, short story, essay collection, or poetry that addresses social change. A description of what “socially engaged prose” means, including examples of classic and contemporary novels, can be found on the PEN/Bellwether Prize website.