SEPT OCT 2019 176University of Georgia Press, Georgia
Poetry Prize, Main Library, Third Floor,
320 South Jackson Street, Athens, GA
30602.
http://www.ugapress.orgUniversity of Massachusetts
Press
JUNIPER PRIZES
Susan Leslie Moore of Portland, Oregon,
and Christina Pugh of Evanston, Illinois,
won the 2019 Juniper Prizes in Poetry.
Moore won for her collection, That Place
Where You Opened Your Hands, and Pugh
won for her collection Stardust Media.
Wayne Karlin of Saint Mary’s County,
Maryland, and Sarah Harris Wallman of
New Haven, Connecticut, won prizes
in fiction. Karlin won for his novel A
Wolf by the Ears, and Wallman won for
her story collection, Senseless Women.
Elizabeth Kadetsky of State College,
Pennsylvania, won the inaugural prize
in nonfiction for her memoir-in-essays,
The Memory Eaters. They each received
$1,000, and their books will be published
by University of Massachusetts Press.
The annual awards are given for two
poetry collections, two books of fiction,and a book of creative nonfiction.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
University of Massachusetts Press,
Juniper Prizes, 180 Infirmary Way, Fourth
Floor, Amherst, MA 01003. Courtney
Andree, Contact.
[email protected]
http://www.umass.edu/umpress/juniper.htmlUniversity of North Texas Press
VASSAR MILLER PRIZE
Steven Bellin-Oka of Tulsa won the
2019 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry for
Instructions for Seeing a Ghost. He received
$1,000, and his book will be published by
University of North Texas Press in April- Peter Balakian judged. The annual
award is given for a poetry collection.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
University of North Texas Press, Vassar
Miller Prize, 1155 Union Circle #311336,
Denton, TX 76203. (940) 565-2142. Karen
DeVinney, Assistant Director/Managing
Editor.
http://www.untpress.unt.edu/contest
University of Texas
DOBIE PAISANO FELLOWSHIPS
Poet Miriam Bird Greenberg of Berke-
ley, California, and fiction writer Mary
Terrier of Madison, Wisconsin, each
won a 2019 Dobie Paisano Fellow-
ship. Greenberg received the Ralph A.
Johnston Memorial Fellowship, which
includes a monthly stipend of $6,250 and
a four-month stay at Dobie Paisano’s
ranch, located fourteen miles southwest
of Austin. Terrier received the Jesse
H. Jones Writing Fellowship, which
includes a monthly stipend of $3,000 and
a six-month stay at Paisano’s ranch. The
annual fellowships, cosponsored by the
Texas Institute of Letters, are given to
writers who are native Texans, who have
lived in Texas for at least three years,
or who have published significant work
with a Texas subject. The next deadline
is January 15, 2020.
University of Texas, Dobie Paisano
Fellowships, Graduate School, 110 Inner
Campus Drive, Stop G0400, Austin, TX
78712.
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Amy Award
Poets & Writers presents the Amy Award each
year to recognize promising women poets, age
30 and under, living in the New York City
metropolitan area or on Long Island.The Amy Award was established in 1995 by Paula Trachtman and
Edward Butscher of East Hampton, New York, in memory of Ms.
Trachtman’s daughter, Amy Rothholz, an actor and poet. To learn
more, go to at.pw.org/amyaward.