Poets & Writers – July-August 2019

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GRANTS & AWARDS

exceptional promise.” As of this writing,

the next deadline has not been set.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial

Foundation, Writing Fellowships, 90 Park

Avenue, New York, NY 10016.

http://www.gf.org

Langum Foundation

PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HISTORICAL

FICTION

Louisa Hall of Iowa City won the 2018

David J. Langum Sr. Prize for Ameri-

can Historical Fiction for her novel

Trinity (Ecco). She received $1,000.

The annual award is given for a work

of historical fiction published in the

previous year that “helps to make the

rich history of America accessible to the

general reader.” The next deadline is

December 1.

Langum Foundation, Prize for American

Historical Fiction, 2809 Berkeley Drive,

Birmingham, AL 35242.

[email protected]

http://www.langumtrust.org/about-prizes/american

-historical-fiction

Ledbury Poetry Festival

POETRY COMPETITION

R. T. A. Parker of Cardiff, Wales, won

the 2018 Poetry Competition for “All

the Bleak Chippies.” He received £1,000

(approximately $1,300); a course at Ty

Newydd, the National Writing Centre

of Wales; publication of his poem on the

Ledbury Poetry Festival website; and an

invitation to read at the festival in July.

Nia Davies judged. The annual award is

given for a poem. (SEE DEADLINES.)

Ledbury Poetry Festival, Poetry

Competition, Master’s House, Bye

Street, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8

1EA, England. Sandra Dudley, Finance

Manager.

[email protected]

http://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/ledbury-poetry

-competition

Lynx House Press

BLUE LYNX PRIZE FOR POETRY

Joe Wilkins of McMinnville, Oregon,

won the 2018 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry

for Thieve. He received $2,000, and his

book will be published by Lynx House

Press. The editors judged. The annual

award is given for a poetry collection. As

LOUISE SWINGLER

Fish Publishing

Flash Fiction Prize

BAIRBRE FLOOD

Fish Publishing

Short Memoir Prize

LISA VAN ORMAN HADLEY

Howling Bird Press

Book Contest

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hadley: niels jensen

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