Category: Literary Prizes

  • Short Story Reviews and Awards image of tag icon

    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 […]

    May 4, 2008

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  • Pastry Chef = Short Story Writer image of tag icon

    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)

    April 7, 2008

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  • Jim Shepard Wins Short Story Prize image of tag icon

    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 […]

    February 28, 2008

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  • Short Roundup of Prizes image of tag icon

    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 […]

    January 13, 2008

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  • Man Booker Winner image of tag icon

    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.

    October 17, 2007

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  • Man Booker image of tag icon

    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 […]

    October 15, 2007

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  • Nobel Awarded to Doris Lessing image of tag icon

    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.

    October 11, 2007

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  • National Book Award Finalists image of tag icon

    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 […]

    October 10, 2007

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  • Nobel Stats image of tag icon

    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 […]

    October 9, 2007

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  • Congrats! image of tag icon

    Congratulations to Peter Orner for winning the VCU First Novelist Award for The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo.

    June 22, 2007

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