New Hampshire outfit Bauhan Publishing has launched a first book prize in honor of the late May Sarton.
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Archive April 2011
May Sarton Centennial Celebrated With Poetry Prize
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 4.21.11
Kay Ryan, Jennifer Egan Take Pulitzers
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 4.19.11
The Pulitzer Prizes in letters have been announced, with two women writers snagging literary honors.
Adaptation of Orange Prize Novel Up for Film Award
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 4.15.11
Lionel Shriver, who some posit is among the greatest living American writers, finds her Orange Prize–winning novel recognized for another honor this spring.
U.S. Writer Wins Big Overseas for Detroit Story
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 4.14.11
The two-year-old Sunday Times Short Story Award, given by the U.K. weekend newspaper for a single story, goes this year to an American author.
Three American Women Shortlisted for IMPAC Prize
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 4.12.11
Among the ten finalists for the one-hundred-thousand-dollar International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award are three American writers, the same number that hail from the librarian-driven award's home country.
Guggenheim Announces Twenty-Seven Literature Fellows
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 4.08.11
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation named yesterday the winners of its 2011 fellowships for writers in the United States and Canada.
Bellingham Review Extends Deadline
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 4.06.11
The Washington State–based literary journal Bellingham Review is offering an extension for submissions to its poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction contests.
New Fifty-Thousand-Dollar Poetry Prize Has Global Ambitions
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Posted by Prize Reporter on 4.04.11
Just before National Poetry Month kicked off last week, word began to spread about a major new poetry prize out of Canada. The fifty-thousand-dollar Montreal International Poetry Prize, funded by an anonymous donor, isn't honoring a poet's lifetime achievement or a major new book, but a single poem.