163 POETS & WRITERS^GRANTS & AWARDSBRIAN SNEEDEN
Iowa Review
Poetry AwardCHLOE WILSON
Iowa Review
Fiction AwardSANDRA M. GILBERT
Northern California Book Reviewers
Fred Cody AwardR
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GRANTS TO ARTISTS
Poets Amy Gerstler of Los Angeles
and Douglas Kearney of Maple Grove,
Minnesota, received 2019 artist grants
from the Foundation for Contemporary
Arts. Gerstler received the C. D. Wright
Award for Poetry, given to a poet over
the age of 50 whose work “exemplifies
Wright’s vibrant lyricism, seriousness,
and striking originality,” and Kearney
received the Cy Twombly Award for Po-
etry, given to a poet. They each received
$40,000. The annual grants are given to
artist and poets. There is no application
process.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 820
Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10014.
(212) 807-7077.
[email protected]
http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grantsFurious Flower Poetry Center
POETRY PRIZE FOR EMERGING WRITERS
Rachelle Parker of New York City won
the 2019 Poetry Prize for Emerging
Poets for a group of poems. She received
$1,000 and publication in Obsidian:
Literature and Art in the African Diaspora.Fish Publishing, Durrus, Bantry, County
Cork, Ireland. Clem Cairns, Editor.
[email protected]
http://www.fishpublishing.comFordham University at Lincoln
Center
POETS OUT LOUD PRIZES
S. Brook Corfman of Pittsburgh won the
2018–2019 Poets Out Loud Prize for
My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites. José
Alvergue of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, won
the Editors’ Prize for scenery. They each
received $1,000, publication by Fordham
University Press in Fall 2020, and an
invitation to read at Fordham University
in Fall 2020. Elisabeth Frost and Cathy
Park Hong judged. The annual awards
are given for poetry collections.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
Fordham University at Lincoln Center,
Poets Out Loud Prizes, 113 West 60th
Street, Room 924i, New York, NY 10023.
(212) 636-6792. Elisabeth Frost, Series
Editor. [email protected]lb
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