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OFF THE GRID POETRY PRIZE
Ioanna Carlsen of Tesuque, New Mexico,
won the 2019 Off the Grid Poetry Prize
for Breather. She received $1,000, and her
book will be published by Grid Books.
Jennifer Tseng judged. The annual
award is given for a poetry collection by
a poet over the age of 60.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
Grid Books, Off the Grid Poetry Prize,
118 Wilson Street, Beacon, NY 12508.
[email protected]
http://www.grid-books.org/off-the-grid-press
Hidden River Arts
HAWK MOUNTAIN SHORT STORY
COLLECTION AWARD
Charles Wyatt of Nashville won the 2019
Hawk Mountain Short Story Collection
Award for Houses. He received $1,000,
and his book will be published by Hid-
den River Press. The editors judged.
The annual award is given for a story
collection. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Hidden River Arts, Hawk Mountain Short
Story Collection Award, P.O. Box 63927,
Philadelphia, PA 19147.
[email protected]
hiddenriverarts.wordpress.com
Howling Bird Press
BOOK CONTEST
Lisa Van Orman Hadley of Salt Lake City
won the 2019 Howling Bird Press Book
Contest for her novel, Irreversible Things.
She received $1,000, and her book will
be published by Howling Bird Press in
the fall. The annual award in given in
alternating years for a poetry collection,
book of fiction, and book of nonfiction.
The 2019 prize will be awarded in
nonfiction. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Howling Bird Press, Book Contest,
Augsburg University, 219 Memorial Hall,
2211 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN- James Cihlar, Publisher.
[email protected]
augsburg.edu/mfa/howling-bird-press
Indiana Review
“1/2 K” PRIZE
Brian Sneeden of Storrs, Connecticut,
won the 2017 “1/2 K” Prize for his prose
poem “Other Fountains.” He received
$1,000, and his poem was published in
Indiana Review. Bryan Borland and Seth
Pennington judged. The annual award is
given for a poem or a work of short prose
of up to 500 words. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Indiana Review, “1/2 K” Prize, Indiana
University, English Department, Lindley
215, 150 South Woodlawn Avenue,
Bloomington, IN 47405.
[email protected]
indianareview.org/prizes
Jewish Book Council
BERRU NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
FOR POETRY
Erika Meitner of Blacksburg, Virginia,
won the 2018 National Jewish Book
Award for Poetry for Holy Moly Carry
Me (BOA Editions, 2018). She received
$1,000 and promotion of the book
through the Jewish Book Council. The
annual award, which honors Ruth and
Bernie Weinflash, is given for a book of
poetry with Jewish themes. The next
deadline is October 5.
Jewish Book Council, Berru National
Jewish Book Award for Poetry, 520 8th
Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10018.
(212) 201-2920. Naomi Firestone-Teeter,
Executive Director.
[email protected]
http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org
John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation
WRITING FELLOWSHIPS
Twenty-four writers received 2019
Guggenheim Fellowships in crea-
tive writing. The fellows in poetry are
Cyrus Cassells of Austin, Texas; Thomas
Centolella and Dean Rader, both of San
Francisco; Camille T. Dungy of Fort
Collins, Colorado; Carmen Giménez
Smith of Blacksburg, Virginia; Joanna
Klink of Iowa City; Robin Coste Lewis
of Los Angeles; Shane McCrae of New
York City; and Lloyd Schwartz of
Somerville, Massachusetts. The fellows
in fiction are Edward Carey of Austin;
Patricia Engel of Key Biscayne, Florida;
Michael Helm of Dundas, Canada;
Catherine Lacey of Chicago; Carmen
Maria Machado of Philadelphia; Helen
Schulman of New York City; and Luis
Alberto Urrea of Naperville, Illinois. The
fellows in nonfiction are Anna Badkhen
of Philadelphia; Alexandra Chasin and
Janine di Giovanni, both of New York
City; Mark Danner of Berkeley, Califor-
nia; Lawrence P. Jackson of Baltimore;
Kevin M. Kruse of Princeton, New
Jersey; Christopher Merrill of Iowa City;
and Sam Stephenson of Bloomington,
Indiana. The fellowships of approxi-
mately $50,000 each are given annually
in recognition of “achievement andGRANTS & AWARDSRecent Winners
Friends of American Writers
LITERATURE AWARDS
Ling Ma of Chicago and Alice Hatcher
of Tucson won the 2018–2019 Friends
of American Writers Literature Awards.
Ma won for her novel, Severance (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux), and Hatcher won
for her novel, The Wonder That Was Ours
(Dzanc Books). Ma received $2,500 and
Hatcher received $1,500; both writers
were honored at a ceremony in Chicago
in May. The annual awards are given for
books of prose published in the previous
year by writers with strong Midwest-
ern ties who have not published more
than three books. The next deadline is
December 10.
Friends of American Writers, Literature
Awards, 748 Western Avenue, Glen Ellyn,
IL 50137. Karen Pulver, Chair.
http://www.fawchicago.org
Great Lakes Colleges
Association
NEW WRITERS AWARDS
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo of Marys-
ville, California, won the 2019 New
Writers Award in poetry for his collec-
tion, Cenzontle (BOA Edit ions). Lesley
Nneka Arimah of Las Vegas, Nevada,
won in fiction for her story collection,
When a Man Falls From the Sky (River-
head Books). Dawn Davies of Sunrise,
Florida, won in creative nonfiction for
her memoir, Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir
in Pieces (Flatiron Books). The winners
each receive a travel stipend and an hon-
orarium of $500 per visit to several of
the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s
13 member colleges, where they will
give readings, meet with students, and
lead classes. David Baker, Joe Heithaus,
and Lynn Powell judged in poetry;
Danit Brown, Eric Freeze, and Jennifer
Hayward judged in fiction; and Matthew
Ferrence, Marin Heinritz, and Rhoda
Janzen judged in creative nonfiction.
The annual awards are given for first
books of poetry, fiction, and creative
nonfiction. The next deadline is June 25.
Great Lakes Colleges Association,
New Writers Awards, 535 West William
Street, Suite 301, Ann Arbor, MI 48103.
Gregory Wegner, Director of Program
Development. [email protected]
http://www.glca.org/glcaprograms/new-writers-award