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Archive June 2010

Birdsong Collective and Micropress, an indie literary outfit based in Brooklyn, New York, is now accepting submissions for its winter 2010 poetry and prose competition.

Former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winner Ted Kooser has been named the inaugural recipient of the Hall-Kenyon Prize in American Poetry.

The third annual Desmond Elliott Prize, given for a first novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom, was awarded yesterday.

Two award announcements arrived recently with news that they would be the last for the respective prizes.

The results of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award competition, sponsored by the libraries of Dublin, were announced today.

In recognition of Bloomsday and the author that inspired it, we're taking a look at a contest out of James Joyce's native Ireland that's seeking stories (though Joyce's Ulysses, celebrated all over the Western world today, is a far cry from the short form).

Earlier this week, Virginia author Barbara Kingsolver took home the fifteenth annual Orange Prize for Fiction, a thirty-thousand-pound award (nearly forty-four thousand dollars) given to a woman writer of any nationality for a novel written in English.

The Vilcek Foundation, which recognizes the work of international artists and scientists living in the United States, is accepting submissions for its first twenty-five-thousand-dollar literature award.

Kundiman, the Asian American poets organization, announced the winner of its first annual book prize this weekend.

Two women poets whose works "open the lock of language" and act as "X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions" were honored last night as winners of the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Archive June 2010

Brooklyn Zine Holds Free Contest

Ted Kooser Honored With New Poetry Award

Novel of "Frozen Landscapes" Wins Debut Fiction Prize

Two Literary Outfits Suspend Poetry Awards

Book's Translation Made Winning Dutch Author Realize He Was a Writer

Irish Story Prize Accepts Submissions From Around the World

Kingsolver Takes Orange Prize, Top Sales in U.K.

U.S. Foundation Offers Award to Foreign-Born Writers

Hawaii Poet Wins Inaugural Asian American Poetry Prize

Griffin Trust Awards Women Poets Five-Figure Prize