JULY AUGUST 2019 94(Counterpoint Books); Richard Powers of
Townsend, Tennessee, for his novel The
Overstory (Norton); Ivelisse Rodriguez of
Whitsett, North Carolina, for her story
collection, Love War Stories ( Feminist
Press); and Willy Vlautin of Scappoose,
Oregon, for his novel Don’t Skip Out on
Me (Harper Perennial). They each re-
ceived $5,000. Percival Everett, Ernesto
Quiñonez, and Joy Williams judged.
The annual award is given for a work of
fiction by a U.S. writer published in the
previous year. As of this writing, the next
deadline has not been set.
PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Award for
Fiction, 641 South Street, Third Floor,
Washington, D.C. 20001. (202) 898-9063.
http://www.penfaulkner.org/award-for-fiction
Perugia Press
PERUGIA PRESS PRIZE
Abby E. Murray of Puyallup, Washing-
ton, won the 2019 Perugia Press Prize
for Hail and Farewell. She received
$1,000, and her book will be published
by Perugia Press in September. The an-
nual award is given for a first or second
book of poetry by a woman. The next
deadline is November 15.
Perugia Press, Perugia Press Prize, P.O.
Box 60364, Florence, MA 01062. Rebecca
Olander, Director.
http://www.perugiapress.com
Ploughshares
ALICE HOFFMAN PRIZE FOR FICTION
Dantiel W. Moniz of Jacksonville, Florida,
won the 2018 Alice Hoffman Prize for
Fiction for her story “Milk Blood Heat,”
which was published in the Spring
2018 issue of Ploughshares. She received
$2,500. The editors judged. The annual
award is given for a work of fiction pub-
lished in the journal in the previous year.
There is no application process.
Ploughshares, Emerson College, 120
Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116.
(617) 824-3757. Ellen Duffer, Managing
Editor. [email protected]
http://www.pshares.org
Poetry Society of America
FOUR QUARTETS PRIZE
Dante Micheaux of London won the 2019
Four Quartets Prize for his collection
Circus (Indolent Books). Micheaux re-
ceived $20,000. The finalists were Cath-
erine Barnett of New York City for “Ac-
cursed Questions” from the collection
Human Hours (Graywolf Press), and
Meredith Stricker of Big Sur, California,for anemochore (Newfound Press). The fi-
nalists each received $1,000. The annual
award, cosponsored by the T. S. Eliot
Foundation, is given for a unified and
complete sequence of poems published
in the United States during the previous
year. Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Carmen
Giménez Smith, and Rosanna War-
ren judged. As of this writing, the next
deadline has not been set.
FROST MEDAL
Eleanor Wilner of Philadelphia won the
2019 Frost Medal. Wilner, whose most
recent poetry collection, Before Our Eyes:
New and Selected Poems 1975–2017, is
forthcoming from Princeton University
Press in the fall, received $5,000. The
annual award is given by the Poetry
Society of America Board of Governors
to recognize distinguished lifetime
achievement in American poetry. There
is no application process.
SHELLEY MEMORIAL AWARD
Carl R. Martin of Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, won the 2019 Shelley Memori-
al Award. Martin, whose most recent po-
etry collection is Rogue Hemlocks ( Fence
Books, 2008), received $6,000. Vanesha
Pravin and Srikanth Reddy judged. The
annual award is given to a poet “selected
with reference to his or her genius and
need.” There is no application process.
Poetry Society of America, 15 Gramercy
Park South, New York, NY 10003.
http://www.poetrysociety.org
Poets & Writers, Inc.
JACKSON POETRY PRIZE
Joy Harjo of Tulsa won the 13th annual
Jackson Poetry Prize. Harjo, whose
most recent book, An American Sunrise,
is forthcoming from W. W. Norton
in September, received $65,000. Ada
Limón, Alicia Ostriker, and D. A. Powell
judged. The annual award is given to “an
American poet of exceptional talent who
deserves wider recognition.” There is no
application process.
Poets & Writers, Inc., 90 Broad Street,
Suite 2100, New York, NY 10004.
(212) 226-3586.
http://www.pw.org
Pulitzer Prizes
PRIZES IN LETTERS
Forrest Gander of Barrington, Rhode Is-
land, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in po-
etry for Be With (New Directions). The
finalists were jos charles of Long Beach,
California, for feeld (Milkweed Editions)
and A. E. Stallings of Athens, Greece,GRANTS & AWARDSRecent Winners
North Carolina Writers’
Network
ROSE POST CREATIVE NONFICTION
COMPETITION
Pam Van Dyk of Raleigh, North Caro-
lina, won the 2019 Rose Post Creative
Nonfiction Competition for “ABC to
XYZ.” She received $1,000, and her es-
say will be considered for publication in
Ecotone. Madge McKeithen judged. The
annual award is given for an essay that
“is outside the realm of conventional
journalism and has relevance to North
Carolinians.” The next deadline is Janu-
ary 15, 2020.
THOMAS WOLFE FICTION PRIZE
Leslie Kirk Campbell of San Francisco
won the 2019 Thomas Wolfe Fiction
Prize for “City of Angels.” She received
$1,000, and her story will be considered
for publication in the Thomas Wolfe
Review. Jill McCorkle judged. The an-
nual award is given for a story. The next
deadline is January 30, 2020.
North Carolina Writers’ Network, P.O.
Box 21591, Winston-Salem, NC 27120. Ed
Southern, Contact. [email protected]
http://www.ncwriters.org
PEN America
EMERGING VOICES FELLOWSHIPS
Five writers received 2019 Emerging
Voices Fellowships from PEN America.
They are poets T. K. Lê and Dare Wil-
liams, and fiction writers Judy Choi,
Anthony Hoang, and Fajer Alexander
Khansa, all of Los Angeles. They will
each receive $1,000 and professional
mentorship with an established writer.
They will also participate in public
readings and other programming in Los
Angeles. The annual awards are given
to emerging poets, fiction writers, and
creative nonfiction writers.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
PEN America, Emerging Voices
Fellowships, 8444 Wilshire Boulevard,
Fourth Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.
[email protected]
http://www.pen.org/emerging-voices-fellowship
PEN/Faulkner Foundation
AWARD FOR FICTION
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi of South
Bend, Indiana, and Florence, Italy, won
the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for her
novel Call Me Zebra (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt). She received $15,000. The
finalists were Blanche McCrary Boyd
of New London, Connecticut, for
her novel Tomb of the Unknown Racist