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http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk

Poets & Writers, Inc.

MAUREEN EGEN WRITERS EXCHANGE

AWARDS

Poet Jonathan Bolt of Princeton, West

Virginia, and fiction writer Lydia A.

Cyrus of Huntington, West Virginia,

won the 2019 Maureen Egan Writers

Exchange Awards. They each received

$500, a monthlong residency at the

Jentel Artist Residency Program in the

Lower Piney Creek Valley of Wyoming,

and an all-expenses-paid trip to New

York City to meet with agents, editors,

publishers, and prominent writers. Pa-

tricia Spears Jones judged in poetry and

Bryn Chancellor judged in fiction. The

annual awards are given to a poet and

fiction writer from a select state. The

next deadline is January 6, 2020.

Poets & Writers, Inc., Maureen Egen

Writers Exchange Awards, 90 Broad

Street, Suite 2100, New York, NY 10004.

(212) 226-3586, ext. 225.

http://www.pw.org

Prairie Schooner

WRITING PRIZES

Valzhyna Mort of Ithaca, New York,

won the 2018 Glenna Luschei Prairie

Schooner Award for a group of poems.

She received $1,500. Omar Sakr of

Sydney, Australia, won the 2018 Edward

Stanley Award for a group of poems;

Avee Chaudhuri of Wichita, Kansas, won

the 2018 Lawrence Foundation Award

for his story “A New Introduction to

Vineet Tiruvadi’s Book of Monsters;”

and May-lee Chai of San Francisco won

the 2018 Virginia Faulkner Award for

Excellence in Writing for her essay

“Lilacs.” They each received $1,000.

Myronn Hardy of New York City won

the 2018 Prairie Schooner Strousse

Award for a group of poems, and Latifa

Ayad of Columbus, Ohio, won the 2018

Bernice Slote Award for her story “Her

Gorgeous Ribs.” They each received

$500. Kwame Dawes judged. The an-

nual awards are given for poems, short

stories, and essays published in Prairie

Schooner in the previous year. There is no

application process.

SILLERMAN FIRST BOOK PRIZE

‘Gbenga Adeoba of Iowa City won the

2019 Sillerman First Book Prize for

African Poets for Exodus. He received

$1,000, and his book will be published

by University of Nebraska Press in 2020.

The African Poetry Book Fund editorial

board judged. The annual award, spon-

sored by the African Poetry Book Fund

in partnership with Prairie Schooner, is

given for a debut poetry collection by

an African poet. The next deadline is

December 1.

Prairie Schooner, University of Nebraska,

110 Andrews Hall, P.O. Box 880334,

Lincoln, NE 68588. (402) 472-0911.

Ashley Strosnider, Managing Editor.

[email protected]

http://www.prairieschooner.unl.edu

Press 53

AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION

Rhonda Browning White of Port Orange,

Florida, won the 2019 Press 53 Award for

Short Fiction for The Lightness of Water.

She received $1,000, publication of her

book by Press 53, and 50 author copies.

Kevin Morgan Watson judged. The

annual award is given for a short story

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