Florida Literary Arts Coalition members Terri Witek and Lola Haskins won silver and bronze respectively in the 2012 Florida Book Awards. Witek and Haskins won for their poetry collections, Exit Island and Grace to Leave. Click here to learn more about Florida authors who were honored.
The Florida Book Awards is an annual awards program that recognizes, honors and celebrates the best Florida literature and books about Florida published in the previous year. Click here to learn more about this program.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Finishing Line Press poetry competition
Sunday, February 3, 2013
National Poetry Series Deadline Approaching
The deadline for the 2013 National Poetry Series contest is coming up on
February 15. Those interested can read the contest guidelines here. Good luck!
The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to ensure the publication of five books of poetry each year. Winning manuscripts are selected through an annual open competition, judged by five distinguished poets. Each winning poet receives a $1,000 cash award in addition to having his or her manuscript published by a participating trade, university, or small press publisher. Publishers currently include HarperCollins Publishers, Fence Books, University of Georgia Press, Penguin Books, and Milkweed Editions. Recent judges have included John Ashbery, Patricia Smith, Nikky Finney, Dean Young, Campbell McGrath, D. Nurkse, and D.A. Powell. Among the list of more than 150 esteemed NPS winners are award-winning poets Billy Collins, Stephen Dunn, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Naomi Shihab Nye, Eleni Sikelianos, and Terrance Hayes.
The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to ensure the publication of five books of poetry each year. Winning manuscripts are selected through an annual open competition, judged by five distinguished poets. Each winning poet receives a $1,000 cash award in addition to having his or her manuscript published by a participating trade, university, or small press publisher. Publishers currently include HarperCollins Publishers, Fence Books, University of Georgia Press, Penguin Books, and Milkweed Editions. Recent judges have included John Ashbery, Patricia Smith, Nikky Finney, Dean Young, Campbell McGrath, D. Nurkse, and D.A. Powell. Among the list of more than 150 esteemed NPS winners are award-winning poets Billy Collins, Stephen Dunn, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Naomi Shihab Nye, Eleni Sikelianos, and Terrance Hayes.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Amina Gautier's Florida Writer's Circuit dates announced
Dr. Amina Gautier is the winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for her short story collection At-Risk. Seventy-five of her stories have been published, appearing in Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Southern Review among other places. Her stories have won awards from the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, Zoetrope—All Story Fiction Contest, Glimmer Train Fiction Open, Jack Dyer Prize, William Richey Award, Danahy Prize, and Schlafly Microfiction Award as well as scholarships and fellowships from Breadloaf, Ucross, and Sewanee Writer’s Conference and a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Award.
NPR picks Enid Shomer's novel as one of the year's best
NPR chooses Enid Shomer's "The Twelve Rooms Of The Nile" as one of the best historical novels of 2012: http://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166481809/time-passages-the-years-best-historical-fiction
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Upcoming reading at Stetson University: Geoff Dyer will be reading/lecturing/signing at Stetson on Wed. January 23rd at 8PM in Lee Chapel.
Here's a Dyer link if you don't know his work http://geoffdyer.com/.
The event is free and open to the public.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
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