For poet and prose writer Gregory Loselle, 2009 has been a banner year in the realm of writing competitions.
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Archive December 2009
Deadline Approaches for Women Fiction Writers Grant
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.23.09
This year's round of grants for feminist writers of fiction given by the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund will close to entries on December 31.
Crazyhorse Extends Poetry and Fiction Contests Into January
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.22.09
Crazyhorse, a literary journal published by the College of Charleston, announced on Monday that the deadline for its poetry and fiction prizes has been extended.
ZZ Packer and Rebecca Solnit Among NEA Fellows in Prose
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.21.09
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced the recipients of its annual fellowships in creative writing, given this year to prose writers.
Online Anthology Launches Shipwreck Story Contest
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.18.09
Underwater New York, an online literary and arts anthology fascinated with the hidden treasures of New York City’s waterways, has teamed with Manhattan’s American Folk Art Museum to offer its first story prize.
New Perk for Pushcart Winners
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.16.09
Earlier this week the Jentel Foundation, sponsor of the Jentel Artist Residency Program, and the Pushcart Prize announced that they have teamed up to grant three residencies to winners of the annual award, which honors poems, stories, essays, and "literary whatnot" nominated by magazines and small presses.
Sapphire, Brian Turner, and Ai Among United States Artist Fellows
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.15.09
Last night United States Artists (USA) announced seven writers as 2009 winners of the organization's fifty-thousand-dollar fellowship award, given annually to a total of fifty artists nationwide.
Asia Residency Award Offers Writers Time Abroad, One Thousand Dollars
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.14.09
The M Restaurant Group, China-based sponsor of the Shanghai International Literary Festival, is offering two three-month residencies in China and India to writers of any nationality working in English.
Judge Spotlight: Donald Revell for Poetry Prize
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.11.09
The Colorado Prize given by the Colorado Review, a fifteen-hundred-dollar award for a poetry collection that includes publication by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, will be judged in 2010 by the journal's poetry editor Donald Revell.
Translation Award Deadline Extended
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.09.09
The Academy of American Poets has extended the deadline for its Raiziss/de Palchi Book Award, a five-thousand-dollar award given for an English translation of a book of Italian poetry.