Poets & Writers – July-August 2019

95 POETS & WRITERS^

GRANTS & AWARDS

for Like (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Dan Chiasson, Robyn Creswell, and

Rigoberto González judged. Richard

Powers of Townsend, Tennessee, won

the prize in fiction for his novel The

Overstory (Norton). The finalists were

Rebecca Makkai of Chicago for The Great

Believers (Viking) and Tommy Orange

of Angels Camp, California, for There

There (Knopf ). Lawrence Buell, Stephen

L. Carter, Elizabeth Taylor, Danielle

Trussoni, and Michael Wood judged.

Jeffrey C. Stewart of Santa Barbara,

California, won the prize in biography

for The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

(Oxford University Press). The finalists

were Max Boot of New York City for The

Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the

American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright)

and Caroline Weber of New York City

for Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated

Women Captured the Imagination of

Fin-de-Siècle Paris (Knopf). William

C. Davis, John Matteson, and Vanessa

Pérez-Rosario judged. Eliza Griswold of

New York City won the prize in general

nonfiction for Amity and Prosperity: One

Family and the Fracturing of America (Far-

rar, Straus and Giroux). The finalists

were Elizabeth Rush of Providence for

Rising: Dispatches From the New American

Shore (Milkweed Editions) and Bernice

Yeung of Berkeley, California, for In

a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual

Violence Against America’s Most Vulner-

able Workers (New Press). Roxane Gay,

Jane Mayer, Vijay Prashad, and Vijay

Seshadri judged. The winners each

received $15,000. The annual awards

honor books by U.S. writers published

in the United States during the previous

year. The annual deadlines are June 15

and October 1.

Pulitzer Prizes, Prizes in Letters,

Columbia University, 709 Pulitzer Hall,

2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027.

(212) 854-3841. [email protected]

http://www.pulitzer.org

Rattle

POETRY PRIZE READERS’ CHOICE AWARD

Katie Bickham of Shreveport, Louisiana,

won the 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize

Readers’ Choice Award for “The

Blades.” She received $2,000, and her

poem was published in Issue 62 of Rattle.

The editors selected the finalists and

Rattle subscribers chose the winner. The

annual award is given for a poem. The

next deadline is July 15.

JANET RUTH

Tucson Festival of Books

Poetry Award

LESLEY BANNATYNE

Tucson Festival of Books

Fiction Award

KATE WISEL

University of Pittsburgh Press

Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Recent Winners

wisel: paulius musteikis

ABC

We are pleased to announce

the winners of the 2019

MAUREEN EGEN

WRITERS EXCHANGE AWARD

From the State of West Virginia

JONATHAN BOLT

for poetry

Selected by Patricia Spears Jones

LYDIA A. CYRUS

for fiction

Selected by Bryn Chancellor

To read the winning entries and see a list of finalists,

visit at.pw.org/wexaward

The award is generously supported by Maureen Egen,

a member of the Poets & Writers Board of Directors.