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Archive September 2010
Historic Milwaukee Hotel Seeks Storyteller
A blog from: Poets & Writers Magazine
Posted by Prize Reporter on 9.29.10
The Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee, a National Trust Historic Hotel of America established in 1893, is looking for a writer to tell the stories of the "many interesting people who pass through" each day.
Writer, Teacher, and Mother of Two Wins "Genius" Fellowship
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 9.28.10
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced yesterday the winners of its 2010 "Genius" Fellowships, among them one author.
One Week to Enter Arizona Lit Mag's Contest
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 9.24.10
The fifteen-year-old literary journal Alligator Juniper, published by Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona, is holding its annual writing contest until October 1.
Eggers, Hacker, DeLillo and Others Honored for Literary Contributions
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 9.23.10
This week two literary organizations with an interest in writing and social justice honored authors with an array of awards.
North Carolina Author Wins Irish Short Story Prize
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 9.21.10
On Sunday night the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, announced the winner of this year's Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.
Shakespeare and Company Seeks a First Novella
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 9.20.10
From Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse to Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, James Joyce's The Dead to Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain—Shakespeare and Company says the novella, a "small but perfectly-formed" literary object, "holds an important place in literature."
Memoirist Wins Major Humanities Prize
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 9.17.10
The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture has named an author the 2010 recipient of the Hiett Prize in Humanities.
Twentieth Anniversary NBF Medal Goes to the Man in White
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 9.16.10
The National Book Foundation (NBF), sponsors of the National Book Awards, announced yesterday their plans to celebrate Tom Wolfe at this year's awards ceremony.
Haunt Michael Cunningham With Your Flash Fiction
A blog from: Poets & Writers Magazine
Posted by Prize Reporter on 9.14.10
The fifth incarnation of National Public Radio's Three-Minute Fiction contest promises to be a supernatural one.
The New Guard Extends Poetry and Fiction Deadlines
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 9.10.10
Recently-born literary journal the New Guard has received such a swell surge of entries to its two contests that it's jonesing for more. The editors are "thrilled" with the "overwhelming response" they've received to their competitions, reports publisher and editor Shanna Miller McNair, and want to keep each of the staggered contests open for three weeks longer than their initial deadline dates.
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