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Ploughshares is pleased to present Claire Luchette with the thirty-third annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for their book, Agatha of Little Neon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021). The [...]

In fiction, our winner is Mengyin Lin, for her story [phrase omitted] no prairie fire can destroy all the weeds.' Of the story, fiction judge Gish Jen says, 'This gutsy [...]

The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has announced its selections for the 2015 Reading List as well as the short lists and read-alikes. Established in 2007 by the CODES [...]

The Alice Hoffman Prize for Fictions Ploughshares is pleased to present Elise Juska with the third annual Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction for her short story, 'Transfer Station,' which appeared [...]

A listing of literary awards, deadlines for contests, and state grant opportunites is presented. Topics include the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the New York Bronx Writers' Center Van Lier Literary Program, and the Orion Society John Hay Award to Barry Lopez for lifetime achievement.

A listing of literary grants and awards is presented, focusing on deadlines for award applications and a list of recent winners. Topics include the University of Alaska Southeast Explorations Award for Literature; the Glimmer Train Press Short Story Award for New Writers; and awards granted to such writers and poets as John Ashbery, Nathan Englander, and Kim Kensen.

A listing of literary grants and awards is presented, focusing on deadlines for competitions, index of state grants, and profiles of recent winners. Topics include the National Poetry Series open competition and the San Francisco Foundation literary awards.

Zacharis Award Ploughshares is pleased to present Lysley Tenorio with the twenty-third annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for his short-story collection, Monstress (Ecco 2012). The $1,500 award, which [...]

A description of literary prizes and other awards available to writers and poets is provided, focusing on application dates, monetary amount of individual awards, and announcements of recent winners. Awards include the Boston Review short story contest, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation Award for Fiction, and the University of North Texas Press Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry.

A listing of literary grants and awards is presented. Topics include deadlines for and descriptions of contests, and a listing of numerous recent winners of literary prizes.

LITERARY COMPETITION Jeannie Gambill of Bellaire, Texas, won the 2011 Poetry Award for her group of poems 'After 'Saraband on a Ground.'' Rebecca Rolland of Boston won the Short Fiction [...]

The Notable Books Council, a group of readers' advisory experts within the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association, has announced its selections for [...]

There was an especially strong showing of diverse fiction finalists for this year's National Book Awards. Jesmyn Ward, an associate professor of English at Tulane University and winner of the [...]

Miscellaneous Notes. Fall 1999 COHEN AWARDS Each year, we honor the best short story and poem published in Ploughshares with the Cohen Awards, which are wholly sponsored by our longtime [...]

FICTION PRIZES Karin Davidson of Columbus, Ohio, won the 2012 Waasmode Short Fiction Prize for 'We Are Here Because of a Horse.' Traci Brimhall of Kalamazoo, Michigan, won the 2012 [...]

LITERARY ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS Poet Steve Kistulentz of Jackson and fiction writers Chris Offutt of Oxford and Steven Wells Hicks of Jackson each received a $4,000 Literary Arts Fellowship from the [...]

BOOK AWARDS Martin Espada of Amherst, Massachusetts, won the 2012 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award for The Trouble Ball (Norton, 2011). Meg Wolitzer of New York City won the 2012 [...]

COLLEGE FICTION CONTEST Don Peteroy of Cincinnati won the 2012 Playboy College Fiction Contest for 'The Circuit Builders.' He received $3,000 and publication of his story in Playboy. The annual [...]

DEBUT LITERARY AWARDS Laurie Weeks of New Paltz, New York, and Rahul Mehta of Philadelphia each won a Debut Fiction Literary Award. Weeks won for her novel, Zipper Mouth (Feminist [...]

BOOK PRIZES Carl Phillips of Saint Louis won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry for Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Alex Shakar of Chicago won the [...]

CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE Mac Wellman of New York City won the 2011 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for Linda Perdido. He received $15,000, and his book will be [...]

LITERARY AWARDS Anna Marie Craighead-Kintis of Wilmette, Illinois, won the 2012 49th Parallel Poetry Award for 'The Bosque Burns on the Feast of John the Baptist.' Linda Bierds judged. Dalia [...]

JACKSON POETRY PRIZE Henri Cole of Boston won the sixth annual Jackson Poetry Prize. Cole, whose most recent poetry collection is Touch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), received $50,000. The [...]

DOUG FIR FICTION AWARD Kjerstin Johnson of Portland, Oregon, won the 2011 Doug Fir Fiction Award for 'Employee Discounts.' She received $1,000, publication of her story in Bear Deluxe Magazine, [...]

A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a first book of fiction by an LGBT author published in the United States or Canada during the current year. Two prizes [...]