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Archive December 2009

To close out 2009, we scanned the past year's Recent Winners listings for some of the stats on the awards we've announced in our pages.

For poet and prose writer Gregory Loselle, 2009 has been a banner year in the realm of writing competitions.

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, a literary journal published by the College of Charleston, announced on Monday that the deadline for its poetry and fiction prizes has been extended.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced the recipients of its annual fellowships in creative writing, given this year to prose writers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Archive December 2009

Looking Back on a Year of Prizes

A Frequent Winner's Advice

Deadline Approaches for Women Fiction Writers Grant

Crazyhorse Extends Poetry and Fiction Contests Into January

ZZ Packer and Rebecca Solnit Among NEA Fellows in Prose

Online Anthology Launches Shipwreck Story Contest

New Perk for Pushcart Winners

Sapphire, Brian Turner, and Ai Among United States Artist Fellows

Asia Residency Award Offers Writers Time Abroad, One Thousand Dollars

Judge Spotlight: Donald Revell for Poetry Prize