Poets & Writers – July-August 2019

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Sewanee Review, Poetry and Fiction

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Stone Canoe

LITERARY AWARDS

Kendra Langdon Juskus of Durham,

North Carolina, won the 2019 Bea

Gonzalez Prize for Poetry for a group

of poems. Bo Ledwith of Binghamton,

New York, won the Robert Colley Prize

for Fiction for her story “The Hunting

Pa r t y.” Daniel Eastman of Allentown,

Pennsylvania, won the S. I. Newhouse

School Prize for Creative Nonfiction for

his essay “The Anomaly of West Virgin-

ia.” They each received $500, and their

winning works were published in Issue

13 of Stone Canoe. The editors judged.

The annual awards are given to writers

who are current or former residents of

upstate New York. (SEE DEADLINES.)

Stone Canoe, Literary Awards, c/o

YMCA Downtown Writers Center, 340

Montgomery Street, Syracuse, NY

13202. Phil Memmer, Executive Director.
       [email protected]
       http://www.syracuse.ymca.org/stone-canoe.html

The Story Prize

Lauren Groff of Jacksonville, Florida,

won the 2018 Story Prize for Florida

(Riverhead Books). She received $20,000.

The finalists were Deborah Eisenberg of

New York City for Your Duck Is My Duck

(Ecco) and Jamel Brinkley of Oakland

for A Lucky Man (Graywolf Press). They

each received $5,000. Jo Ann Beard,

Ron Charles, and Veronica Santiago Liu

judged. Akil Kumarasamy of Ann Arbor,

Michigan, won the 2018 Story Prize

Spotlight Award for Half Gods (Farrar,

Straus and Giroux). She received $1,000.

Larry Dark and Julie Lindsey judged.

The annual awards are given for short

story collections published during the

previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)

The Story Prize, 41 Watchung Plaza,

#384, Montclair, NJ 07042. Larry Dark,

Director. [email protected]

http://www.thestoryprize.org

Tucson Festival of Books

LITERARY AWARDS

Janet Ruth of Corrales, New Mexico,

won the 2019 poetry award for “Trick

of Light” and other poems. Lesley

Bannatyne of Somerville, Massachu-

setts, won the fiction award for her story

GRANTS & AWARDS

Recent Winners

NEIL POSTMAN AWARD FOR METAPHOR

James Valvis of Issaquah, Washington,

won the 2019 Neil Postman Award for

Metaphor for “The Distracted.” He

received $1,000, and his poem was pub-

lished in Issue 62 of Rattle. The editors

judged. The annual award is given

for a poem “exhibiting the best use of

metaphor” among submissions to Rattle

received during the previous year. There

is no application process.

Rattle, 12411 Ventura Boulevard, Studio

City, CA 91604. (818) 505-6777. Timothy

Green, Editor. [email protected]

http://www.rattle.com

Sewanee Review

POETRY AND FICTION CONTEST

Cate Lycurgus of San Francisco won

the inaugural Sewanee Review Poetry

Contest for “Locomotion.” Lily Meyer

of Washington, D.C., won the Fiction

Contest for “On Being Human.” They

each received $1,000 and publication

in the Winter 2019 issue of the Sewanee

Review. Dan Chiasson judged in poetry

and Danielle Evans judged in fiction.

The annual awards are given for a group

of poems and a short story.

(SEE DEADLINES.)

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