Recent Winners
Alice James Books
ALICE JAMES AWARD
Mia Ayumi Malhotra of San Mateo, California, won the 2017 Alice James Award for her poetry collection Isako, Isako. She received $2,000, and her book will be published by Alice James Books in April 2019. Andrés Cerpa of New York City received the Editor’s Choice Award for his collection Elegy With a Bicycle in a Ransacked City. He received $1,000, and his book will be published in January 2019. The annual awards are given for poetry collections. (SEE DEADLINES.) Alice James Books, Alice James Award, 114 Prescott Street, Farmington, ME 04938. (207) 778-7071. Alyssa Neptune, Managing Editor. info@alicejamesbooks.org
www.alicejamesbooks.org/alice-james-award
American Academy in Berlin
BERLIN PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS
Fiction writers V. V. Ganeshananthan of Minneapolis, Paul La Farge of Red Hook, New York, Thomas Chatterton Williams of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and Carole Maso of Providence received Berlin Prize Fellowships. They each received a semester-long residency at the Hans Arnhold Center at the American Academy in Berlin, a $5,000 monthly stipend, and round-trip airfare. The annual fellowships are given to fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and scholars. (SEE DEADLINES.) American Academy in Berlin, Berlin Prize Fellowships, Am Sandwerder 17-19, 14109 Berlin, Germany. Johana Gallup, Fellows Selection Manager. jg@americanacademy.de
www.americanacademy.de/home/fellows
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship
Joanna Klink of Williamstown, Massachusetts, won the 2017–2018 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. She received $54,000. The annual scholarship is typically given to a U.S. poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work.
(SEE DEADLINES.) Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, c/o Thomas H. P. Whitney Jr. and William A. Lowell, Choate, Hall & Stewart, LLP, 2 International Place, Boston, MA 02110. amylowell@choate.com
www.amylowell.org
Asheville Poetry Review
WILLIAM MATTHEWS POETRY PRIZE
Jared Harel of New York City won the 2017 William Matthews Poetry Prize for “You Want It Darker.” He received $1,000, and his poem will be published in Volume 24, Issue 27 of Asheville Poetry Review. He also received an invitation to give a reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, North Carolina. Cornelius Eady judged. The annual award is given for a poem. The next deadline is January 15, 2018.
Asheville Poetry Review,
William Matthews Poetry Prize, P.O. Box 7086, Asheville, NC 28802.
Keith Flynn, Managing Editor.
www.ashevillepoetryreview.com
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
Naomi Alderman of London won the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel The Power (Viking). She received £30,000 (approximately $39,000). Sam Baker, Katie Derham, Aminatta Forna, Sara Pascoe, and Tessa Ross judged. Formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction, the annual award is given for a novel by a woman from anywhere in the world published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set. Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, c/o Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB. Paula Johnson, Contact. pjohnson@societyofauthors.org
www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk
Balcones Center for Creative Writing
BALCONES PRIZES
Jacqueline Allen Trimble of Montgomery, Alabama, won the 20th annual Balcones Poetry Prize for her collection, American Happiness (NewSouth Books). Prudence Arceneaux, John Herndon, and Richard Price judged. Tara Laskowski
of Washington, D.C. won the seventh annual Balcones Fiction Prize for her short story collection Bystanders (Santa Fe Writers Project). Amanda Eyre Ward judged. The winners each received $1,500. The annual awards honor a book of poetry and a book of fiction published during the previous year. The next deadline is January 31, 2018. Balcones Center for Creative Writing, Balcones Prizes, Austin Community College, 1212 Rio Grande Street, Austin, TX, 78701. (512) 828-9368. John Herndon, Contact. jherndon@austincc.edu
austincc.edu/crw
Bellingham Review
LITERARY AWARDS
John Blair of San Marcos, Texas, won the 2017 49th Parallel Poetry Award for his poem “The Art of Forgetting.” Robert Cording judged. Janis Hubschman of Montclair, New Jersey, won the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction for her story “Escape Artist.” John Dufresne judged. Susan M. Stabile of College Station, Texas, won the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction for her essay “Mustard.” Julie Marie Wade judged. They each received $1,000, and their winning works will be published in the Spring 2018 issue of Bellingham Review. The annual awards are given for a poem, a short story, and a work of creative nonfiction. The next deadline is March 15, 2018.
Bellingham Review, Literary Awards, Western Washington University, Mail Stop 9053, Bellingham, WA 98225. Dayna Patterson, Managing Editor. bellingham.review@wwu.edu
www.bhreview.org
Binghamton University
BOOK AWARDS
Patricia Colleen Murphy of Phoenix won the 2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award for her collection, Hemming Flames (Utah State University Press). Dante Di Stefano judged. Helen Phillips of New York City won the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award for her story collection Some Possible Solutions (Henry Holt). Libby Tucker judged. They each received $1,000. The annual awards are given for a poetry collection and a novel or collection of short fiction published in the previous year. The next deadline is March 1, 2018. Binghamton University, Book Awards, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902. (607) 777-2713.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Director.
english.binghamton.edu/cwpro
BOA Editions
A. POULIN JR. POETRY PRIZE
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo of Sacramento, California, won the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize for his collection, Cenzóntle. He received $1,500, and his book will be published by BOA Editions in 2018. Brenda Shaughnessy judged. The annual award is given for a first book of poetry. The next deadline is November 30. BOA Editions, A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, P.O. Box 30971, Rochester, NY 14603. (585) 546-3410. Ron Martin-Dent, Director of Publicity and Production. martindent@boaditions.org
www.boaeditions.org
Booker Prize Foundation
MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
Fiction writer David Grossman of Jerusalem and translator Jessica Cohen of Denver won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for Cohen’s translation from the Hebrew of Grossman’s
novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar (Jonathan Cape). They each received £25,000 (approximately $32,500). The finalists were Mathias Énard of Barcelona and Charlotte Mandell of Red Hook, New York, for Mandell’s translation from the French of Énard’s novel Compass (Fitzcarraldo Editions); Roy Jacobsen of Oslo, Don Bartlett of Norfolk, England, and Don Shaw of England for Bartlett and Shaw’s translation from the Norwegian of Jacobsen’s novel The Unseen (Maclehose); Dorthe Nors of Jutland, Denmark, and Misha Hoekstra of Aarhus, Denmark, for Hoekstra’s translation from the Danish of Nors’s novel Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Pushkin Press); Amos Oz of Tel Aviv, Israel, and Nicholas de
Lange of Nottingham, England, for de Lange’s translation from the Hebrew of Oz’s novel Judas (Chatto & Windus); and Samanta Schweblin of Berlin and Megan McDowell of Santiago, Chile, for McDowell’s translation from the Spanish of Schweblin’s novel Fever Dream (Oneworld). They each received £1,000 (approximately $1,300). Nick Barley, Daniel Hahn, Helen Mort, Elif Shafak, and Chika Unigwe judged. The annual award is given for a story collection or novel translated into English and published in the United Kingdom between May 1 of the previous year and April 30 of the award year. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set. Booker Prize Foundation, Man Booker International Prize, 28 St. James’s Walk, London, England EC1R 0AP.
themanbookerprize.com/international
Brick Road Poetry Press
BOOK CONTEST
Erin Murphy of Altoona, Pennsylvania, won the 2016 Brick Road Poetry Book Contest for Assisted Living. She received $1,000, and her book will be published by Brick Road Poetry Press. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. (SEE DEADLINES.) Brick Road Poetry Press, Book Contest, 513 Broadway, Columbus, GA 31901. Keith Badowski and Ron Self, Coeditors.
www.brickroadpoetrypress.com
Carlow University
PATRICIA DOBLER POETRY AWARD
Dana Salvador of Albuquerque, New Mexico, won the 2016 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award for her poem “After the Accident.” She received $1,000; publication in Voices From the Attic, Carlow
University’s literary journal; and roundtrip transportation and lodging to give a reading at Carlow University. Allison Hedge Coke judged. The annual award is given to a woman poet over 40 who has not published a book in any genre. (SEE DEADLINES.) Carlow University, Patricia Dobler
Poetry Award, c/o Jan Beatty, Director of Creative Writing, 3333 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. (412) 578-6346.
Jan Beatty and Sarah Williams-Devereux, Contacts. sewilliams412@carlow.edu
www.carlow.edu/Dobler_Poetry_Award.aspx Nick Makoha of London won the 2016 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize for Resurrection Man. He received $500, publication by Jai-Alai Books, and a weeklong residency at the Writer’s Room at the Betsy Hotel, and will give a reading at the O, Miami Festival in Miami, Florida. Robin Coste Lewis judged. The annual award is given for a poetry chapbook by a black poet. (SEE DEADLINES.) Cave Canem Foundation, Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize, 20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A, Brooklyn, NY 11201. (718) 858-0000. cavecanempoets.org/prizes/toi-derricotte -cornelius-eady-chapbook-prize
Center for African American Poetry and Poetics
POETRY FELLOWSHIP
Rickey Laurentiis of New York City won the 2017–2019 Center for African American Poetry & Poetics Poetry (CAAPP) Fellowship. He will receive $48,000 each year of a two-year residency at CAAPP at the University of Pittsburgh. The biennial fellowship is given to a poet with an MFA or PhD in creative writing who has not published more than one book and has knowledge of African American or African diasporic poetry and poetics. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set. Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, Poetry Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, School of Arts and Sciences, English Department, 526 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Lauren Russell, Assistant
Director. caapp@pitt.edu
www.caapp.pitt.edu
Center for Book Arts
POETRY CHAPBOOK COMPETITION
Kimberly Kruge of Guadalajara, Mexico, won the 22nd annual Poetry Chapbook Competition for High-Land Sub-Tropic. She received $500, and her chapbook will be published by the Center for Book Arts. She will also receive a $500 honorarium to participate in a reading at the center in October. Juan Felipe Herrera judged. The annual award is given for a poetry chapbook. The next deadline is December 15. Center for Book Arts, Poetry Chapbook Competition, 28 West 27th Street,
3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001.
www.centerforbookarts.org
Center for Fiction
NYC EMERGING WRITERS FELLOWSHIPS
Nine fiction writers, all of New York City, won 2017 NYC Emerging Writers Fellowships. They are Amna Ahmad, Charlotte Crowe, Dana Czapnik, Erik Hoel, Andrew Mangan, Crystal Powell, Maud Streep, Alexandra Tanner, and Hubert Vigilla. They each received $5,000, yearlong studio space at the
Center for Fiction in New York City, the opportunity to meet with agents and editors, and will give two public readings. Manuel Gonzales, Alexandra Kleeman, and Téa Obreht judged. The annual fellowships are given to emerging writers living in the five boroughs of New York City. The next deadline is February 15, 2018. Center for Fiction, NYC Emerging Writers Fellowships, 17 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017. info@centerforfiction.org
www.centerforfiction.org
Chautauqua Institution
CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE
Peter Ho Davies of Ann Arbor, Michigan, won the sixth annual Chautauqua Prize for his novel The Fortunes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016). He received $7,500 and a weeklong residency at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. The annual award is given for a book of fiction or creative nonfiction published in the previous year. The next deadline is December 15. Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua Prize, P.O. Box 28, 1 Ames Avenue, Chautauqua, NY 14722. (716) 357-6376.
Sara Toth, Contact.
www.ciweb.org/prize
Cloudbank Books
VERN RUTSALA BOOK PRIZE
Holly Karapetkova of Arlington, Virginia, won the 2016 Vern Rutsala Book Prize for her poetry collection Towline. She received $1,000, and her collection was published by Cloudbank Books. Dennis Schmitz judged. The annual award is given for a collection of poetry, flash fiction, micro essays, or short experimental work. (SEE DEADLINES) Cloudbank Books, Vern Rutsala Book Prize, P.O. Box 610, Corvallis, OR 97339. (877) 768-6762. Roberta Sperling, Contact. roberta@cloudbankbooks.com
www.cloudbankbooks.com Katie M. Flynn of San Francisco won the 14th annual Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction for her story “Island Rule.” She received $2,000, and her story will be published in the Fall 2017 issue of Colorado Review. Richard Bausch judged. The annual award is given for a short story. The next deadline is March 14, 2018.