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Dec. 22—While sifting through nearly 350 entries in this year's Pasatiempo Writing Contest, one thing became clear: Santa Fe — and New Mexico — fosters a strong community of writers. Based ...
About five to six hundred writers enter the contest every year, about two-thirds of whom manage to complete and submit a novel. To date, the contest has had two repeat winners: Bradley Harris, a writer from Memphis, Tennessee, won in 1998 with Ruby Ruby and again in 2012 with Thorazine Beach, while Shannon Mullally was co-winner with Meghan ...
The William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition is one of America's leading literary competitions and has been presenting awards in fiction, nonfiction and poetry since 1993. [1] The competition is named after the Faulkner Society’s namesake, novelist William Faulkner , and William Wisdom of New Orleans , a literary ...
Winners in the novel and creative nonfiction categories receive a $2,000 cash honorarium and publication. AWP hires a staff of “screeners” who review manuscripts for the judges, who select ten manuscripts in each genre for each judge's final evaluations.
National Novel Writing Month, often shortened to NaNoWriMo (/ ˌ n æ n oʊ ˈ r aɪ m oʊ / NAN-oh-RY-moh), [1] is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that promotes creative writing around the world.
In late 2011 Amazon and Penguin Group (USA) released details of the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, with the dates for the elimination rounds being the same as the previous year. While the previous years' winners had all been residents of the United States of America, the 2012 contest would be open to international contestants' entries.
The PBS Kids Writers Contest is an annual art and literature competition for students grades kindergarten to 12 in the United States. The competition was relaunched under the name PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest in 2009 as a continuation from its predecessor called Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest [ 1 ] which was started in 1995.
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners, 1981–1989 [5] [6] Year Author Title 1981 Walter Abish: How German Is It: Shirley Hazzard: The Transit of Venus: Walker Percy: The Second Coming: Gilbert Sorrentino: Aberration of Starlight: John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces: 1982 David Bradley: The Chaneysville Incident: Donald Barthelme ...