Category: Awards

October 10, 2007

>2007 National Book Award Finalists

>The 2007 National Book Award Finalists have been announced. The winner will announced in November. I’ve not yet read any of the fiction, and…
September 6, 2007

>Man Booker Prize: Short List

>The Short List for the Man Booker Prize has been announced. The six titles shortlisted are: • Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate) •…
August 17, 2007

>Glasgow Prize

>Shenandoah has announced that the 2007 Glasgow Prize has been awarded to Emily Rosko. Emily Rosko of Columbia, Missouri has been named recipient of…
August 8, 2007

>Man Booker Prize

>The long list for the Man Booker Prize has been announced. The short list will be announced on Thursday, September 6. Check out the…
July 5, 2007

>Million Writers Award

>storySouth has announced the winners of its 2007 Million Writers Award. Congratulations to the winners!
June 26, 2007

>The Binnacle Ultra-short Competition

>Recently I posted a copy of my ultra-short fiction, “Tornado Weather,” which was one of the finalists in the 2006 Binnacle Ultra-short Competition. The…
June 20, 2007

>Congratulations Susan Meyers!

>SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) yesterday announced the winners of the 2007 SIBA Awards and I am thrilled that Susan Myers’s book Keep and…
June 6, 2007

>The Thinking Blogger Award

>Do Bloggers think? Or do they provoke thought? Or is it both? I’m grateful to Kelly Spitzer for thinking of me here at Perpetual…
June 6, 2007

>Orange Prize

>The winner of the Orange Prize has been announced: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for Half of a Yellow Sun. I’ve got this and have been…
May 16, 2007

>Pushcart Prizes

>Writers have been hearing in recent weeks that their work has been selected for a Pushcart Prize. (Nominations were submitted by December 1, nominees…