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Archive July 2011

Melville House Publishing, pioneer of book-trailer appreciation, is offering its entire novella library to the literary filmmaker who can come up with "the most awesome book trailer of all time."

The Man Booker Prize panel has announced its 2011 "Booker dozen," the semifinalists for the fifty-thousand-pound novel award (approximately eighty-two thousand dollars).

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest announced, for the twenty-ninth year running, the worst sentence submitted to its annual race for the most wretched first line of an imaginary novel.

Earlier this month the Guardian revealed the one hundred thirty-six nominees for its annual First Book Award, posing the question, "what have we missed?"

The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage in Philadelphia has announced its 2011 fellows in the arts.

The shortlist for the twentieth annual Forward Prize for Poetry, the U.K.-based award given for a collection by an established writer, a debut book, and a single poem, were announced this week.

The Caine Prize for African Writing, a major award given annually for a single short story written in English by an African writer, has been awarded to Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo, the pseudonym of Cornell University instructor Elizabeth Tshele. Since earning her MFA at Cornell, Tshele has remained with the university teaching composition and creative writing under the Truman Capote Fellowship.

The Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced yesterday, recognizing noteworthy Australian novels and the "efforts and sacrifices" of their writers.

The German Haus der Kulturen der Welt has awarded its twenty-five-thousand-euro (roughly thirty-five-thousand-dollar) International Literature Award to Russian writer Mikhail Schischkin for his novel Venushaar (Maiden's Hair).

This summer SMITH Magazine is bringing writers another of its famed challenges in literary brevity.

Archive July 2011

The Art of the Literary Duel

First Novels, Indie Presses Make Booker Prize Longlist

University of Wisconsin Professor Wins for Year's Worst Sentence

Guardian Seeks Suggestions for Debut Book Prize

Self-Taught Poet Among 2011 Pew Fellows

Brooklyn Poet D. Nurkse Up for U.K.'s Forward Prize

Cornell Fellow Wins Caine Prize for African Writing

Fifty-Six-Year-Old Debut Novelist Wins Major Australian Prize

Russian Author Yet to Be Translated in U.S. Wins International Literature Prize

A Challenge of Six for Your Fourth