The winners of this year’s fifty-thousand-dollar Whiting Writers' Awards, given to promising writers nominated by established authors and literary professionals across the United States, were announced last night at a ceremony in New York City.
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Archive October 2010
Nine Emerging Writers Snag Fifty Grand Award
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.28.10
Chapbook Contest Ups Its Prize
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.27.10
Bloomington, New York's Codhill Press, whose "voice was conceived as lying at the intersection between spiritual, literary, and poetic thought," is open for entries to its fifth annual poetry chapbook contest, this year with a prize of one thousand dollars.
Brother and Sister Vie for Canadian Book Award
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.22.10
A few weeks ago the Canadian Writers’ Trust announced the finalists for its Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, which could have induced a bit of sibling rivalry, given two of the names on the five-strong shortlist.
Water, Light, Music, Noise Make Eliot Prize Shortlist
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.21.10
The ten finalists for the T. S. Eliot Prize, a U.K. award worth fifteen thousand pounds, were recently named in what chair of judges Anne Stevenson called an "exceptional year for poetry."
Miami Herald Holds Basketball Poetry Contest, With a "Royal" Subject
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.19.10
The Cleveland Cavaliers lost a star player this year to the sultry climes of Miami, and the Florida city's largest newspaper is looking for a poetic way to usher in the Heat's new signee.
U.S. and Canada Book Awards Name the Year's Standouts
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.14.10
Yesterday afternoon the National Book Foundation announced the contenders for the National Book Awards, among them several titles published by small publishing outfits such as Coffee House Press, Four Way Books, and Copper Canyon Press.
Third Nomination's a Charm for This Year's Booker Winner
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.13.10
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, which carries a purse of fifty thousand pounds (approximately $79,200), was announced last night at a ceremony in London.
Ploughshares Editor Wins Nebraska Book Award
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.12.10
The Nebraska Center for the Book has announced the winners of its 2010 book awards.
Vargas Llosa Takes Nobel, Heaney Wins Prize for First Work After Stroke
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.07.10
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this morning, the first time in twenty-eight years that the award has been given to a South American writer.
Carve's Story Contest Deadline Extended
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.06.10
Carve Magazine, an online outpost for fiction, returned last month from a yearlong hiatus with an announcement of its eleventh annual Raymond Carver Short Story Contest.