JULY AUGUST 2019 92(Farrar, Straus and Giroux), translated
from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh.
Anna Burns of East Sussex, England,
received the fiction award for her novel
Milkman (Graywolf Press). The finalists
were Patrick Chamoiseau of Martinique,
France, for Slave Old Man ( New Press),
translated from the French and Cre-
ole by Linda Coverdale; the late Denis
Johnson for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
(Random House); Rachel Kushner of Los
Angeles for The Mars Room (Scribner);
and Luis Alberto Urrea of Naperville,
Illinois, for The House of Broken Angels
(Little, Brown). Nora Krug of New York
City received the autobiography award
for her memoir Belonging: A German
Reckons With History and Home (Scrib-
ner). The finalists were Richard Beard
of Oxford, England, for The Day That
Went Missing: A Family’s Story (Little,
Brown); Nicole Chung of Wash i ng-
ton, D.C., for All You Can Ever Know
(Catapult Books); Rigoberto González
of New York City for What Drowns
the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of
Brotherhood (University of Wisconsin
Press); Nell Painter of Newark, New
Jersey, for Old in Art School: A Memoir
of Starting Over (Counterpoint Press);
and Tara Westover of New York City for
Educated (Random House). Steve Coll
of New York City won the nonfiction
award for Directorate S: The C.I.A. and
America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and
Pakistan (Penguin Press). The finalists
were Francisco Cantú of Tucson for The
Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the
Border (Riverhead Books); Greg Lukianoff
of Washington, D.C., and Jonathan
Haidt of New York City for The Cod-
dling of the American Mind: How Good
Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a
Generation for Failure (Peng uin Press);
Adam Winkler of Los Angeles for We
the Corporations: How American Businesses
Won Their Civil Rights (Liveright); and
Lawrence Wright of Austin, Texas, for
God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of
the Lone Star State (Knopf ). Christopher
Bonanos of New York City won the
biography award for Flash: The Making
of Weegee the Famous (Henry Holt). The
finalists were Craig Brown of Aldeburgh,
England, for Ninety-Nine Glimpses of
Princess Margaret (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux); Yunte Huang of Santa Barbara,
California, for Inseparable: The Original
Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous
With American History (Liveright); Mark
Lamster of Dallas for The Man in theGlass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the
Modern Century (Little, Brown); and Jane
Leavy of Washington, D.C., and Truro,
Massachusetts, for The Big Fella: Babe
Ruth and the World He Created ( Harper).
Zadie Smith of New York City received
the criticism award for her essay col-
lection Feel Free (Penguin Press). The
finalists were Robert Christgau of New
York City for Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty
Years of Rock Criticism, 1967–2017 (Duke
University Press); Stephen Greenblatt of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, for Tyrant:
Shakespeare on Politics (Norton); Terrance
Hayes of New York City for To Float
in the Space Between: A Life and Work in
Conversation With the Life and Work of
Etheridge Knight (Wave Books); and Lacy
M. Johnson of Houston for The Reckon-
ings (Scribner). The National Book
Critics Circle, a professional organiza-
tion composed of 750 book critics and
reviewers from across the country, select
the winners of the annual awards, which
honor books of poetry, fiction, and crea-
tive nonfiction published in the previous
year. The next deadline is December 1.
JOHN LEONARD PRIZE
Tommy Orange of Angels Camp, Cali-
fornia, won the John Leonard Prize for
his novel, There There (Knopf ). The an-
nual award is given for a first book in any
genre. There is no application process.
National Book Critics Circle, c/o Marion
Winik, Treasurer, 4600 Keswick Road,
Baltimore, MD 21210.
[email protected]
bookcritics.org
National Federation of State
Poetry Societies
STEVENS MANUSCRIPT COMPETITION
Flower Conroy of Key West, Florida, won
the 2018 Stevens Manuscript Competi-
tion for Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder.
She received $1,000, and her book will
be published by the National Federation
of State Poetry Societies. Chen Chen
judged. The annual award is given for a
poetry collection. As of this writing, the
next deadline has not been set.
National Federation of State Poetry
Societies, Stevens Manuscript
Competition, 4 Bowie Point, Sherwood,
AR 72120. Amanda Partridge, Chair.
[email protected]
http://www.nfsps.comGRANTS & AWARDSRecent Winners
of this writing, the next deadline has not
been set.
Lynx House Press, Blue Lynx Prize for
Poetry, P.O. Box 96, Spokane, WA 99210.
(509) 624-4894.
[email protected]
http://www.lynxhousepress.org
Michigan Quarterly Review
LITERARY PRIZES
Elizabeth Gaffney of New York City
won the 41st annual Lawrence Founda-
tion Prize for her story “Six-X,” which
appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of
Michigan Quarterly Review. She received
$1,000. Michael Byers judged. Jasmine
V. Bailey of Lubbock, Texas, won the
17th annual Laurence Goldstein Poetry
Prize for her poem “This Is Not a Poem
About Leah, Let Alone Zilpah and
Bilhah,” which appeared in the Summer
2018 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.
She received $500. Raymond McDaniel
judged. The annual awards are given for
a short story and a poem published in
Michigan Quarterly Review in the previous
year. There is no application process.
PAGE DAVIDSON CLAYTON PRIZE
Nkosi Nkululeko of New York City won
the tenth annual Page Davidson Clayton
Prize for Emerging Poets for “Record-
able,” which appeared in the Spring
2018 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.
He received $500. Raymond McDaniel
judged. The annual award is given for
a poem or group of poems published in
Michigan Quarterly Review by a poet who
has not published a book at the time of
publication in the journal. There is no
application process.
Michigan Quarterly Review, University of
Michigan, 0576 Rackham Building, 915
East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI- [email protected]
http://www.michiganquarterlyreview.com
National Book Critics Circle
BOOK AWARDS
Ada Limón of Lexington, Kentucky,
received the 2018 National Book Critics
Circle Award in poetry for The Carry-
ing (Milkweed Editions). The finalists
were Terrance Hayes of New York City
for American Sonnets for My Past and
Future Assassin (Penguin Books); Erika
Meitner of Blacksburg, Virginia, for Holy
Moly Carry Me (BOA Edit ions); Diane
Seuss of Kalamazoo, Michigan, for Still
Life With Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
(Graywolf Press); and Adam Zagajewski
of Kraków, Poland, for Asymmetry