One of the things I love about the [Maureen Egen Writers] Exchange Award is that it takes the creative side of writing and it takes the practical side of writing, the publishing and the marketing, and the things that I think a lot of writers are kind of embarrassed to admit an interest in, and it treats it as one holistic world.
—Sandra Beasley, author of I Was the Jukebox (Norton, 2010) and winner of the 2008 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award.