Poets & Writers – September 2019

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GRANTS & AWARDS

RACHAEL UWADA CLIFFORD

Glimmer Train Press

Short Story Award for New Writers

ROBIN HALEVY

Glimmer Train Press

Family Matters

CAMERON WALKER

Hidden River Arts

Tamaqua Award

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the annual award provides support to

creative nonfiction writers “whose work

reflects the spirit and passion for the

desert embodied in Meloy’s writing” to

spend time in a desert environment. The

next deadline is January 15, 2020.

Ellen Meloy Fund, Desert Writers

Award, D. A. Davidson and Co., P.O. Box

1677, Helena, MT 59624. Mark Meloy,

Executive Director. [email protected]

http://www.ellenmeloy.com

Fiction Collective Two

CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE

FICTION PRIZE

Susan Neville of Indianapolis won the

2019 Catherine Doctorow Innovative

Fiction Prize for her story collection The

Town of Whispering Dolls. She received

$15,000, and her book will be published

by Fiction Collective Two. Shelley Jack-

son judged. The annual award is given

for a short story collection, novella,

novella collection, or novel by a writer

who has published at least three books of

fiction. (SEE DEADLINES.)

Cutthroat, Writing Awards, P.O. Box 2414,

Durango, CO 81302. (970) 903-7914.

Pamela Uschuk, Editor in Chief.

[email protected]

http://www.cutthroatmag.com

Elixir Press

POETRY AWARD

Laurin Becker Macios of New York City

won the 19th annual Elixir Press Poetry

Award for Somewhere to Go. She received

$2,000, and her book will be published

by Elixir Press. Liz Robbins judged. The

annual award is given for a poetry collec-

tion. (SEE DEADLINES.)

Elixir Press, Poetry Award, P.O. Box

27029, Denver, CO 80227. Dana Curtis,

Editor. [email protected]

http://www.elixirpress.com

Ellen Meloy Fund
DESERT WRITERS AWARD
Leath Tonino of Crested Butte, Colorado,
won the 2019 Ellen Meloy Fund Desert
Writers Award. He received $5,000 to
work on his creative nonfiction manu-
script “Strange Immersions: Five Deep
Dives Into Lands Cut From the Grand
Staircase–Escalante Map.” Established
wa to honor the memory of Ellen Meloy,

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