POETS & WRITERSGRANTS & AWARDSRecent Winners
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Alice James Books
Alice James AwardJANE WONG
Alice James Books
Editor’s Choice AwardTONI JUDNITCH
Bellingham Review
Annie Dillard Award for Creative
NonfictionAlice James Books
ALICE JAMES AWARD
Rosebud Ben-Oni of New York City won
the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is
the Age We End Discovery. She received
$2,000, and her book will be published
by Alice James Books in March 2021.
Jacques Rancourt of Redwood City,
California, and Jane Wong of Belling-
ham, Washington, received the Editor’s
Choice Awards for Brocken Spectre and
How Not to Be Afraid of Everything,
respectively. They each received $1,000,
and their books will be published in Fall
- The annual awards are given for
poetry collections. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Alice James Books, Alice James Award,
114 Prescott Street, Farmington, ME
- (207) 778-7071. Alyssa Neptune,
Managing Editor.
[email protected]
http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/alice-james-award
American Academy in Berlin
BERLIN PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS
Fiction writers Angela Flournoy of New
York City and Adam Ehrlich Sachs of
Pittsburgh and nonfiction writer Suki
Kim of New York City received Berlin
Prize Fellowships. They each received
a semester-long residency at the Hans
Arnhold Center at the American Acad-
emy in Berlin, a $5,000 monthly stipend,
and round-trip airfare. The annual
fellowships are given to fiction writers,
nonfiction writers, and scholars.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
American Academy in Berlin, Berlin Prize
Fellowships, Am Sandwerder 17-19, 14109
Berlin, Germany. Emma Lo, Fellows
Selection Coordinator.
[email protected]
http://www.americanacademy.de/apply/apply-for-a
-fellowship
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling
Scholarship
Anne Pierson Wiese of Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, won the 2019–2020 Amy Lowell
Poetry Traveling Scholarship. She
received $59,000. The annual scholar-
ship is typically given to a U.S. poet to
spend one year outside North America
in a country the recipient feels will most
advance their work. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship,
c/o Charles A. Cheever and William
A. Lowell, Choate, Hall & Stewart, 2
International Place, Boston, MA 02110.
(617) 248-4729. Gina Coletti, Trust
Advisor. [email protected]
http://www.amylowell.orgA Public Space
A PUBLIC SPACE FELLOWSHIPS
Fiction writers Mihret M. Sibhat of Min-
neapolis, Sylvan Thomson of Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and Kyle Francis Williams of
New York City and nonfiction writer
Vicki Madden of New York City received
the 2019 A Public Space Fellowships.
They each received $1,000, a six-month
mentorship with the editors to prepare
a piece for publication in A Public Space,
and the opportunity to meet with pub-
lishing professionals and participate in
a public reading in New York City. The
annual fellowships are given to emerg-
ing fiction writers and nonfiction writers
who have not published a full-length
book. (SEE DEADLINES.)
A Public Space, A Public Space
Fellowships, 323 Dean Street, Brooklyn,
NY 11217. (718) 858-8067.
[email protected]
http://www.apublicspace.orgAsheville Poetry Review
WILLIAM MATTHEWS POETRY PRIZE
Jude Nutter of Minneapolis won the 2019
William Matthews Poetry Prize for
“The Lions of Chauvet.” She received
$1,000, and her poem will be published
in Volume 26, Issue 29 of Asheville Poetry
Review. She also received an invitation to
give a reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore
in Asheville, North Carolina. Dorianne
Laux judged. The annual award is given
for a single poem. The next deadline is
January 15, 2020.
Asheville Poetry Review, William Matthews
Poetry Prize, P.O. Box 7086, Asheville,
NC 28802. Keith Flynn, Managing Editor.
http://www.ashevillepoetryreview.com