MFA alum Maya Sloan has received a fellowship from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation as one of 10 participants (5 from the English-writing world and 5 from Bulgaria) to attend the 2009 Sozopol Fiction Seminars on the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria. The program is designed to allow participants to explore their work in an international community of writers working in English or Bulgarian, and to encourage exchanges between NES writers and their Bulgarian colleagues in cooperation with the US Embassy.