Category: Awards

January 25, 2009

>NBCC Award Finalists Announced

>The National Book Critics Circle (of which I’m a member) has announced the finalists for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Awards. (Hooray for…
January 21, 2009

>2009 Tournament of Books

>Time for the Tournament of Books, the “Battle Royale of Literary Excellence” in which sixteen books are pitted against each other to determine the…
January 11, 2009

>Press 53 Contest

>Press 53 is having it’s second annual Open Awards and the deadline in all categories is March 31. They’ve got some great people judging…
January 9, 2009

>NAACP Image Awards

>Nominations have been announced for this year’s Image Awards. In the category of Literary Fiction there are five nominees, one of whom is Bonnie…
January 1, 2009

>2008 New Yorker Story of the Year

>Congratulations to Joshua Ferris! Perpetual Folly readers have spoken and Ferris’s story, The Dinner Party, has been chosen as the New Yorker Story of…
December 27, 2008

>4 Days Left to Vote

>There are just 4 days left to vote for the 2008 New Yorker Story of the Year. See Perpetual Folly: Vote for New Yorker…
December 25, 2008

>Reminder: Vote for New Yorker 2008 Story of the Year

>Just a reminder: the polls are still open for New Yorker 2008 Story of the Year. Vote in the sidebar. The finalists are– January…
December 7, 2008

>2009 Pushcart Prize Rankings

>NOTE: FOR THE 2010 PUSHCART PRIZE RANKINGS, GO HERE. It is time once again to give my annual ranking of literary magazines. As I…
December 1, 2008

>The New Yorker: Best Stories of 2008

>Thanks to all who left comments or sent me emails to suggest stories that should be included in the top-ten list. I agreed with…
November 21, 2008

>National Book Award Winners!

>The National Book Award Winners have been announced: Fiction: Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country Poetry: Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire Non-fiction: Annette Godon-Reed’s The Hemingses…
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