Poets & Writers – September 2019

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GRANTS & AWARDS

ANTHONY CODY

Omnidawn Publishing

Open Poetry Book Prize

JULIAN RANDALL

Publishing Triangle

Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award

C. C. REID

Southern Indiana Review

Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award

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http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com

Hackney Literary Awards

NOVEL CONTEST

Rae Meadows of New York City won the

2018 Novel Contest for her novel manu-

script “No Man’s Land.” She received

$5,000. The annual award is given for an

unpublished novel. (SEE DEADLINES.)

Hackney Literary Awards, Novel Contest,

4650 Old Looney Mill Road, Birmingham,

AL 35243.

http://www.hackneyliteraryawards.org

Harvard University

RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIPS

Poets Angie Estes of Urbana, Illinois,

and Joan Naviyuk Kane of Anchorage,

Alaska, fiction writers Nina McConig-

ley of Laramie, Wyoming, and Neal

Hovelmeier of Harare, Zimbabwe,

and nonfiction writer Chanan Tigay

of Oakland received fellowships from

the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced

Study at Harvard University. They each

received $77,500, an additional $5,000

to cover project expenses, office space

at the Radcliffe Institute, and access to

the libraries at Harvard University. The

the International Prize were Raymond
Antrobus of London for The Persever-
ance (Penned in the Margins); Daniel
Borzutzky of Chicago for Lake Michigan
(University of Pittsburgh Press); and
Luljeta Lleshanaku of Elbasan, Albania,
and Ani Gjika of Framingham, Mas-
sachusetts, for Gjika’s translation from
the Albanian of Lleshanaku’s Negative
Space (Bloodaxe Books). The finalists for
the Canadian Prize were Dionne Brand
of Toronto for The Blue Clerk (McClel-
land & Stewart) and Sarah Tolmie of
Waterloo, Canada, for The Art of Dying
(McGill-Queen’s University Press).
The winners and finalists each received
CAD $10,000 (approximately $7,600) for
participating in a reading in Toronto.
Ulrikka Gernes, Kim Maltman, and Sri-
kanth Reddy judged. The annual awards
are given for a book of poetry published
in English during the previous year by a
living poet or translator from any coun-
try and for a book of poetry in English
by a living Canadian poet or translator.
The next deadline is December 31.
Griffin Trust, Griffin Poetry Prize, 363
Parkridge Crescent, Oakville, Ontario
L6M 1A8, Canada. (905) 618-0420. Ruth
ra Smith, Executive Director.

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