storySouth now has the longlist for the 2007 Millions Writers award, celebrating the best of online fiction. The list of publications is especially helpful if you’re looking to read good fiction online or want to know which online publications (there are so many!) are good to send material to. The May issue of The Short […]
Junot Diaz, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, commenting on life as a celebrity of the short story form: “Being a hot young short-story writer is like being a hot young up-and-coming pastry chef.” Who really knows or cares in the real world?” (Interviewed in Newsweek)
Jim Shepard won the Short Story Prize last night for his collection “Like You’d Understand, Anyway.” First prize was $20,000, and both runners-up took home $5,000. I just finished the book and understand (Yes, I do understand, really) why it won. It has a zest for exploration and a penchant for far-flung corners of the […]
I’ve always been fascinated with, yet never entered, the Writers Weekly 24 hour short story contest. Seems a bit gimmicky (in the same vein as NaNoWriMO), but also could be rather fun, in that collectivist, lets-all-make-art-simultaneously type of way. Anyway, it starts Jan. 26th. If you want some great, constantly updated information about short story […]
So as I predicted, Ian McEwan didn’t win the Man Booker; instead, they choose an author with considerably less fame: Anne Enright won for The Gathering, one of the books considered to be an outside chance. Check out the post-win BBC interview.
The Booker award is announced tomorrow, and all I can say is that it better not be On Chesil Beach. The book does not show Ian McEwan at his best, and the only thing that could catapult him into the winner’s spot is an over-reliance upon his authorial publishing record and reputation, rather than an […]
Doris Lessing just won the Nobel Prize for literature. As the 11th woman to win the prize, she’s also apparently the oldest, and contrary to what people predicted – that the academy would go outside Europe this time – she’s British.
Does the prize season seem to come all at once, or is it me? Since the National Book Award finalists were just announced today, and the Nobel Prize for literature comes tomorrow, I feel swamped under prize mania. Despite that, I still am thrilled by the prospect. Sorry, can’t help myself. Nominees: Mischa Berlinski: Fieldwork […]
So below are some of the odds the bookies are placing on the Nobel Prize for Literature, which is awarded Thursday. For my money, I’d go for Les Murray, Margaret Atwood, or Milan Kundera. Apparently Europeans have won it the last nine of ten years, so the judges might want to go outside, and no […]
Congratulations to Peter Orner for winning the VCU First Novelist Award for The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo.
