JULY AUGUST 2019 88Claremont Graduate University
TUFTS POETRY AWARDS
Dawn Lundy Martin of Pittsburgh won
the 27th annual Kingsley Tufts Poetry
Award for Good Stock Strange Blood
(Coffee House Press, 2017). Martin
received $100,000 and a weeklong
appointment as poet-in-residence at
Claremont Graduate University. The
annual award is given for a book of
poetry by a midcareer poet published in
the previous year. Diana Khoi Nguyen
of Denver won the 26th annual Kate
Tufts Discovery Award for Ghost Of
(Omnidawn Publishing, 2018). Nguyen
received $10,000. The annual award is
given for a first book of poetry published
in the previous year. The judges for both
awards were Timothy Donnelly, Cathy
Park Hong, Khadijah Queen, Luis J.
Rodriguez, and Sandy Solomon. The
next deadline is July 1.
Claremont Graduate University, Tufts
Poetry Awards, 160 East 10th Street,
Harper East B7, Claremont, CA 91711.
(909) 621-8974. [email protected]
http://www.cgu.edu/tufts
Cleveland Foundation
ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS
Tracy K. Smith of Princeton, New Jersey,
won the 84th annual Anisfield-Wolf
Book Award in poetry for her collec-
tion Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press).
Tommy Orange of Angels Camp, Cali-
fornia, won the award in fiction for his
novel, There There (Knopf ). Andrew Del-
banco of New York City won the award
in nonfiction for his book The War Before
the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle
for America’s Soul From the Revolution to
the Civil War (Penguin Press). Poet and
playwright Sonia Sanchez of Philadel-
phia won the Lifetime Achievement
Award. They each received $10,000.
Rita Dove, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Joyce
Carol Oates, Steven Pinker, and Simon
Schama judged. The annual awards are
given to honor books of poetry, fiction,
and creative nonfiction published in the
previous year that “confront racism and
examine diversity.” The next deadline is
December 31.
Cleveland Foundation, Anisfield-Wolf
Book Awards, 1422 Euclid Avenue, Suite
1300, Cleveland, OH 44115.
(216) 861-3810.
http://www.anisfield-wolf.orgCodhill Press
POETRY AWARD
Robert Krut of Los Angeles won the
2018 Codhill Press Poetry Award for
The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All on Fire.
He received $1,000, publication of his
book by Codhill Press, and 25 author
copies. The annual award is given for a
poetry collection. The next deadline is
December 30.
Codhill Press, Poetry Award, P.O. Box
280, Bloomington, NY 12411. Pauline
Uchmanowicz, Contest Coordinator.
http://www.codhill.com
Comstock Review
MURIEL CRAFT BAILEY AWARD
Rebekah Denison Hewitt of Verona,
Wisconsin, won the 2018 Muriel Craft
Bailey Award for her poem “Eve Speaks
From Outside the Belly of the Fish.” She
received $1,000 and publication in Com-
stock Review. Maggie Smith judged. The
annual award is given for a single poem.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
Comstock Review, Muriel Craft Bailey
Award, 4956 Saint John Drive, Syracuse,
NY 13215.
http://www.comstockreview.org
Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales
POETRY PRIZE
Becky Gould Gibson of Winston-Salem,
North Carolina, won the 2018 Dogfish
Head Poetry Prize for Indelible. She
received $500, publication by Broadkill
River Press, ten author copies, and two
cases of Dogfish Head beer. She also re-
ceived lodging expenses to give a reading
at the Dogfish Inn in Lewes, Delaware.
Shara McCallum judged. The annual
award is given for a poetry collection
written by a poet living in Delaware,
Maryland, New Jersey, New York,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Washington, D.C., or West Virginia.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, Poetry
Prize, c/o Broadkill River Press, P.O. Box
63, Milton, DE 19968. Linda Blaskey,
Contest Coordinator.
[email protected]
http://www.broadkillriverpress.com
Dogwood
LITERARY PRIZES
Gillian Vik of Seattle won the 2019 Prize
in Poetry for her poem “The Cancer
Menagerie.” Annie Lampman of Moscow,
Idaho, won the Prize in Fiction for
her story “Whom the Lion Seeks.”GRANTS & AWARDSRecent Winners
American Poetry Review, Honickman First
Book Prize, 1906 Rittenhouse Square,
Philadelphia, PA 19103.
http://www.aprweb.org
Barnes & Noble
DISCOVER AWARDS
Paul Howarth of Norwich, England,
won the 2018 Discover Award in Fiction
for his novel, Only Killers and Thieves
(Harper). He received $30,000. Tommy
Orange of Angels Camp, California,
won the $15,000 second-place prize
for his novel, There There (Knopf ), and
Fatima Farheen Mirza of New York City
won the $7,500 third-place prize for her
novel, A Place for Us (SJP for Hogarth).
Paulette Jiles, Helen Simonson, and Jess
Walter judged. Kiese Laymon of Oxford,
Mississippi, won the $30,000 Discover
Award in Nonfiction for his memoir,
Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner).
Shane Bauer of Oakland won the $15,000
second-place prize for his nonfiction
book, American Prison: A Reporter’s
Undercover Journey Into the Business of
Punishment (Penguin Press), and Tara
Westover of New York City won the
$7,500 third-place prize for her memoir,
Educated (Random House). Mira Jacob,
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, and Beth Macy
judged. The annual awards are given for
works of fiction and nonfiction published
in the previous year and featured in
Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New
Writers program. As of this writing, the
next deadline has not been set.
Barnes & Noble, Discover Awards, 122
Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011.
(212) 633-4067. Miwa Messer, Director.
[email protected]
http://www.bn.com/discover
Center for Literary Publishing
COLORADO PRIZE FOR POETRY
Brandon Krieg of Kutztown, Pennsylva-
nia, won the 25th annual Colorado Prize
for Poetry for Magnifier. He received
$2,000, and his book will be published
in November by the Center for Literary
Publishing at Colorado State University.
Kazim Ali judged. The annual award is
given for a poetry collection. The next
deadline is January 14, 2020.
Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado
Prize for Poetry, Colorado State
University, 9105 Campus Delivery, Ft.
Collins, CO 80523. (970) 491-5449.
Stephanie G’Schwind, Director.
coloradoprize.colostate.edu