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Writers for Writers Award and the Editor's Award
Writers for Writers Award
Established in 1996, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award recognizes authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community. Honorees are chosen by a committee composed of past winners, other prominent writers, and the Board of Directors of Poets & Writers. Title of the award has been given to Barnes & Noble in appreciation of their extraordinary support of Poets & Writers. The 2010 recipients are
Junot Díaz is the co-founder of the VONA Voices Workshop, which is dedicated to nurturing developing writers of color. He is the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead, 2007), which was named “Novel of the Decade” by New York Magazine. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and four times in The Best American Short Stories. His bestselling debut book, Drown (Riverhead, 1996), led to his inclusion among Newsweek’s “New Faces of 1996.” The New Yorker placed him on a list of the twenty top writers for the twenty-first century. Born in Santo Domingo , the Dominican Republic , and raised there and in New Jersey , Díaz graduated from Rutgers and received an MFA from Cornell. He lives in New York City and Boston
Maxine Hong Kingston has led writing and meditation workshops for veterans and their families for fifteen years. She is Senior Lecturer for Creative Writing at the University of California , Berkeley American Academy
M. L. Liebler is an internationally-known Detroit Wayne State University in Detroit since 1980, and he is the founding director of both The National Writer’s Voice Project in Detroit Detroit
The Editor's Award
Beginning in 2009, Poets & Writers began presenting an Editor's Award, recognizing a book editor who has made an outstanding contribution to the publication of poetry or literary prose over a sustained period of time. The 2010 recipient is Pat Strachan.
Pat Strachan has been a senior editor at Little, Brown since 2002. She began her career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where she worked as an editor for seventeen years, rising to vice president and associate publisher. After four years as a fiction editor at The New Yorker, she returned to book publishing. Among the writers whose books she has edited are Lydia Davis, Ian Frazier, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Larry Heinemann, Jamaica Kincaid, Galway Kinnell, John McPhee, Deirdre McNamer, Edna O’Brien, Grace Paley, Padgett Powell, Marilynne Robinson, Grace Schulman, Jim Shepard, and Derek Walcott. She has received the PEN/Roger Klein Award for Editing.
Photo credits: Junot Diaz by Luis Blackaller, Maxine Hong Kingston by Gail K. Evenari, M.L. Liebler by Alex Lumelsky, Pat Strachan by Little, Brown, and Company.
Established in 1996, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award recognizes authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community. Honorees are chosen by a committee composed of past winners, other prominent writers, and the Board of Directors of Poets & Writers. Title of the award has been given to Barnes & Noble in appreciation of their extraordinary support of Poets & Writers. The 2010 recipients are
Junot Díaz is the co-founder of the VONA Voices Workshop, which is dedicated to nurturing developing writers of color. He is the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead, 2007), which was named “Novel of the Decade” by New York Magazine. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and four times in The Best American Short Stories. His bestselling debut book, Drown (Riverhead, 1996), led to his inclusion among Newsweek’s “New Faces of 1996.” The New Yorker placed him on a list of the twenty top writers for the twenty-first century. Born in M. L. Liebler is an internationally-known The Editor's AwardBeginning in 2009, Poets & Writers began presenting an Editor's Award, recognizing a book editor who has made an outstanding contribution to the publication of poetry or literary prose over a sustained period of time. The 2010 recipient is Pat Strachan.
Pat Strachan has been a senior editor at Little, Brown since 2002. She began her career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where she worked as an editor for seventeen years, rising to vice president and associate publisher. After four years as a fiction editor at The New Yorker, she returned to book publishing. Among the writers whose books she has edited are Lydia Davis, Ian Frazier, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Larry Heinemann, Jamaica Kincaid, Galway Kinnell, John McPhee, Deirdre McNamer, Edna O’Brien, Grace Paley, Padgett Powell, Marilynne Robinson, Grace Schulman, Jim Shepard, and Derek Walcott. She has received the PEN/Roger Klein Award for Editing.
Photo credits: Junot Diaz by Luis Blackaller, Maxine Hong Kingston by Gail K. Evenari, M.L. Liebler by Alex Lumelsky, Pat Strachan by Little, Brown, and Company.
Past Award Recipients
2009
Russell Banks
Robert Caro
Sarah Gambito
Daniel Halpern (Editor's Award)
2008
Toi Derricotte
A.M. Homes
Peter Straub
2007
E. Ethelbert Miller
Francine Prose
Susan Richards Shreve
- 2006
- Regie Cabico
- Bill Henderson
- Anna Quindlen
- 2005
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Sidney Offit
- Quincy Troupe
- 2004
- Judy Blume
- Oakley Hall
- Sharon Olds
- 2003
- Bob Holman
- Ishmael Reed
- Amy Tan
- 2002
- E. Lynn Harris
- June Jordan
- Wally Lamb
- 2001
- Cornelius Eady
- Marita Golden
- Scott Turow
- 1999
- Stanley Kunitz
- Barbara Goldsmith
- Terry McMillan
- 1998
- Edward Albee
- E.L. Doctorow
- Susan Sontag
- 1997
- Rita Dove
- Stephen King
- Hilma Wolitzer
- 1996
- Mary Higgins Clark
- James A. Michener
- Arthur Miller
- Walter Mosley
- William Styron