Recent Posts Tagged With 'prizes'

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  Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 09:53 in prizes, accolades

  Celebrate!The Busy SeasonI've been pretty lax on celebrating the achievements of fellow writers and artists lately. It's not that I haven't paid attention or been jumping out of my skin with glee each time I hear about something fabulous unfolding. I...

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  Posted on Wednesday June 25th, 2008 at 16:21 in quilting, prizes

  Celebrate!Kudos to Naomi S. Adams of Round Rock, Texas for winning the $5,000 grand prize in the Second Annual OLFA Young Designers Okada Award competition. OLFA distributes quilting supplies. The American Quilter's Society announced her win at its A...

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  Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 09:21 in Poets, prizes

  Celebrate!Gary Snyder wins $100,000 2008 Ruth Lily Poetry PrizePopularly known for his connection with the Beat Generation of poets and his work as a Buddhist and environmentalist, poet Gary Snyder is the latest winner of the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize f...

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  Posted on Saturday April 19th, 2008 at 08:23 in prizes, In the News

  Canada's Donner Prize Brings More Gender ControversySoon after I posted in this space about poetry prizes came another prize controversy in Canada about the $35,000 Donner Book Prize, given for the best book on public policy. It appears that some peo...

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  Posted on Wednesday April 16th, 2008 at 14:14 in prizes, In the News, the novel

  Here Come the Prizes: Celebrate? Junot Diaz Wins Pulitzer, Lily Allen Resigns As Orange Prize Judge, Tony Hoagland gets the Jackson Prize and the Pulitzer for Poetry Goes to Two MenWith any given literary prize, there is almost always going to be som...

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  Posted on Saturday March 29th, 2008 at 11:05 in prizes

  Celebrate! Congratulations to Nigerian writer Karen King-Aribisala, who has won a second regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for her book The Hangman's Game, a Peepal Tree Press book about a writer writing a book.The story is of a young Guyanese wom...

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  Posted on Monday March 24th, 2008 at 16:21 in poems, Poets, prizes

  Celebrate!Mary Jo Bang has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry for her collection, Elegy (Graywolf Press, 2007). Bang is professor of English and director of The Writing Program, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University ...

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  Posted on Saturday March 15th, 2008 at 11:10 in Poets, prizes, accolades

  Jean Valentine New State Poet of New YorkJean Valentine is the new New York State Poet for 2008-2010. The post was previously held by Billy Collins and John Ashberry, and Valentine was recommended by a committed that included these two poets as well...

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  Posted on Saturday March 15th, 2008 at 08:06 in Poets, prizes, accolades

  Celebre!Felicitaciones to Cubano poet Alexis Diaz-Pimienta for winning the inaugural Los Odres International Poetry Prize for "Fiesta de Disfraces" (Masquerade), in Spain!Diaz-Pimienta, 42 and director of the experimental department of improvised po...

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  Posted on Saturday March 8th, 2008 at 08:22 in poems, prizes, accolades

  Tufts Discovery Winner Janice N. HarringtonWhile some head off to Branson golf and other leisure distractions to escape snow or stress, I am diving deeper into poetry. To give myself a break from editing (uggghhh!), revision and new theatre work abou...