Emma Madgic, a 2022 summer journalism fellow at the Provincetown Independent, has won the 2023 Excellence in Feature Writing (Non-Daily) Award of the national Association of LGBTQ Journalists, the organization announced last week.
Madgic won the prize for her article “Rediscovering a Forgotten Provincetown Artist” about the painter Edith Lake Wilkinson, who spent the last 32 years of her life in a mental institution in West Virginia, most likely because she was gay. The piece was published in the Aug. 4, 2022 issue of the Independent.
The award will be presented at the association’s annual conference in Philadelphia in September.
Madgic, who graduated from Brown University in May 2023 with degrees in English and public health, last week began a new job as a strategic communications analyst at Kekst CNC, a public relations firm in New York City.
The Independent is the only weekly newspaper in the U.S. to be honored in this year’s awards from the LGBTQ journalists association. Other award winners include Ari Shapiro of National Public Radio, Nico Lang of the Huffington Post, Ernest Owens of Rolling Stone, Elizabeth Harris and Alexandra Alter of the New York Times, LZ Granderson of the Los Angeles Times, and Bryn Nelson of Scientific American.
