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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
FICTION
February 14, 2010 - Scott Lax's short story, "Sales Call," won 2nd Place for Fiction in Muse Magazine 2010 Literary Competition.
March 2009 - The Hub City Writers Project announces "The Scott Lax Prize." The full-ride scholarship to the Wildacres Writers Conference was established in 2008 and is underwritten by Hillcrest Publications of Spartanburg, SC to honor novelist Scott Lax of Ohio."
1999 - The Year That Trembled, a Novel named Vermont Book of the Year, Runner-Up.
Dec. 1998 - The Year That Trembled, a Novel, named of of 1998’s “Milestones in Fiction by Denver Post.
1998 - Awarded Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Univ. of the South), Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Fiction for The Year That Trembled.
NON-FICTION
March 1, 2010 – Second place for “Original Columns, General,” Ohio Professional Writers 2010 Communication Contest
May 16, 2009 - In the Ohio Professional Writers 2009 Communication Contest, Scott Lax was awarded:
1. First Place for "Original Columns, General"
2. First Place for "Feature Story, Magazine"
3. Second Place for "Special Series, Print Media."
June 2008: Ohio Excellence in Journalism Award, statewide competition, sponsored by The Cleveland Press Club, Honorable Mention, Best Single Essay, Open Print
1993 - Bread Loaf Writer’ Conference (Middlebury College), Bernard J. O’Keefe Scholarship in Nonfiction
1994, 1995 - Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Staff Scholarship
FILM
2002 - Midwest Filmmaker of the Year, Cleveland International Film Festival
2002 - Producer’s Award, Winner, People’s Choice, Cincinnati International Film Festival
2002 - Producer’s Award, Winner, Best Regional Feature, Cincinnati International Film Festival
2002 - Bessie’s People’s Choice Award, Burlington, VT City Arts, Favorite Film
OTHERS
2002 - City of Cleveland Certificate of Congratulations for body of work
1999 - Named to fourteen-person list of Hiram College’s “Most Illustrious Alumni"
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Scott Lax was born in Cleveland and grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He attended Kent State University’s extension branch, then transferred to Hiram College, where he ran track, played drums in the Hiram College Jazz Ensemble, spent a semester at the University of Cambridge in England studying Shakespeare. He graduated with a B.A. in English in 1976. After college, Scott was a professional drummer, playing with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Bo Diddley, among hundreds of well-known and little known outstanding musicians. He was also an industrial salesman for fifteen years. Scott became a professional writer in January of 1992 and never looked back.
Since then, Scott Lax became a novelist, short story writer, nonfiction writer and playwright. He has been a contributing editor and columnist for Cleveland Magazine; senior writer for Northern Ohio Live magazine; front-page columnist for The Sun News, book reviewer for The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and has won numerous nonfiction awards from the Ohio Professional Writers and the Cleveland Press Club.
The Denver Post called his first novel, The Year That Trembled, "powerful" and one of 1998’s “milestones in fiction.” The novel was named the 1998 Vermont Book of the Year Runner-Up. In March 2010, Scott won second place in the MUSE Literary Competition for his short story, “Sales Calls.” He has had three short stories published so far in 2010, including “The Crack,” and “Sleeping In,” which are all part of a new collection of stories he is writing. Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc., of New York City, are currently selling his new novel that, like The Year That Trembled. The novel, a literary thriller, takes place in France and in Chestnut Falls, a fictional small Northeast Ohio Village near Cleveland.
Scott Lax is a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Nonfiction Scholar, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fiction Fellow, and has won numerous other awards for writing and producing, including the 2002 Midwest Filmmaker of the Year for his feature film version of The Year That Trembled, which is currently out world-wide on DVD, and was called “the most important movie of the year” by the Ithaca Times, and “touching and intelligent” by Ain’t it Cool News.com.
He has taught and lectured at dozens of colleges and schools. Recently, the second annual Scott Lax Prize, a full ride scholarship to the Wild Acres Writers Conference in North Carolina, was awarded for the second consecutive year. Scott and the light of his life, Lydia, live in the Chagrin Valley in Ohio with Lydia’s two children, and they are expecting another child – Scott’s first – in a few months.
Scott teaches writing for the Chagrin Valley Writers’ Workshop, which he founded. For more information on the workshops, please click on the Workshop link, above.
Scott and Lydia
Talking with Martin Mull (left) and Fred Willard (right) while producing "The Year That Trembled"
Playing blues harp with The Backup Band
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Nonfiction
Click here for samples of published nonfiction by Scott Lax
Click here to read some of Scott's columns, essays and features, including the 2009 Ohio Professional Writers First Place Award-winning column and feature.
Fiction
Click here for more on "The Year That Trembled," a novel by Scott Lax
“One of 1998’s Milestones in Fiction--Powerful!” --The Denver Post, Tom Walker, Book Editor (Please click the link above to read more reviews)
Film
Click here for more on "The Year That Trembled," a feature film, source written and produced by Scott Lax
"The most important movie of the year." - The Ithaca Times (Please click the above link to read more reviews)
Theatre
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Evans Printing CompanyIf you represent a bookstore or chain, you can order my novel, THE YEAR THAT TREMBLED, here. (It's not out of print; the previous publisher, Paul S. Eriksson, closed out his company and sold out his stock.)
The Scott Lax Prize in WritingAwarded by the Hub City Writers Project; established 2008
The Authors GuildScott's a member since 1998
Ohio Professional Writers, IncScott won two first place awards and one second in 2009. Click "About Scott," above, for more on those awards; click here for information on the OPW.
ALS AssociationWorking for a cure to treat and fight ALS
Bright Side of the Road Foundation Funding research in the battle against ALS |
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