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Amy Crider, a Chicago playwright, is the winner of the sixth annual University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize, which comes with a $10,000 advance and a contract to publish in fall 2021, the University of New Orleans Press announced Wednesday.
Crider won the Lab competition with her psychological thriller “Disorder”, which took shape from Crider’s personal experience.
“In 1992, as a young woman, I had a fierce battle with bipolar disorder,” Crider said. “I experienced particularly paranoid mania. I was often lucid, of course, and I found myself thinking, ‘It’s a good thing I’m not involved in a murder right now, or I’d really be in trouble!’ I knew I wanted to write that story someday.”