Category: Awards

>Jhumpa Lahiri’s new short story collection, Unaccustomed Earth, has been awarded the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. The amazing thing is that the…

>My copy hasn’t arrived yet, but I’m looking forward to reading The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 “A Composer and His Parakeets” Ha JinZoetrope…

>After a fairly steady stream of excuses about why it was taking so long, the editor of storySouth has finally opened the black box…

>I guess the 2008 contest must have worked out all right for them, because they’re doing it again this year. Press 53 has announced…

>The finalists for The Binnacle Ultra-short Competition have been announced. For the third straight year, I’ve managed to place a piece on that list….

>Okay, so it may not be your usual literary award, but in the “Baking and Desserts” category, Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads won a…

>The 2008 Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award is Kate Christenson for The Great Man. The other finalists are Annie Dillard, The MaytreesDavid Leavitt, The…

>There are several contests for collections of short stories but one of the most important is the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction given…

>I was very pleased to learn that Logan Ward‘s See You in a Hundred Years is a finalist for this year’s Library of Virginia…

>Press 53, that dynamic, young small press, has announced the winners and finalists for its 2008 Open Awards, a contest with a broad range…