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Miscellaneous Notes. Fall 2004 COHEN AWARDS Each year, we honor the best poem and short story published in Ploughshares with the Cohen Awards, which are wholly sponsored by our longtime [...]

Information about these awards is carried each year in an issue of Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Lectura y Vida, Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading Today, and [...]

I MUST BEGIN WITH A CONFESSION, a strange confession perhaps yet a candid one. From the moment I stepped onto the airplane to make the journey here and accept this [...]

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.

A listing of literary grants and awards is presented. Topics include deadlines for literary contests such as those sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and the Human Rights Watch; and awards received, such as the Minnesota individual artist fellowships, and artist fellowships from the Colorado Council on the Arts.

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.

A writer uses the experiences of 19th-century arctic explorers as a metaphor for the process of writing. Topics include the details of the arctic explorations, and the essential characteristic of creative writing as an exploration into the unknown.

When Yeats received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, he was fifty-eight and at the height of his poetic powers, which happily continued undiminished for another sixteen years. Yeats [...]

Dwight Waldo Award For Outstanding Contributions to the Literature and Leadership of Public Administration through an Extended Career Patricia Wallace Ingraham Syracuse University Patricia Wallace Ingraham is Distinguished Professor of [...]

The Academy of America Poets announced that Jackson Mac Low has been selected as the winner of the 1999 Tanning Prize. Robert Creeley chaired a jury that included Frank Bidart, [...]

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on politics and literature delivered at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. The 1999 prize went to Paul Cantor of the [...]

The Michael Harrington Book Award is given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world. Michael Forman of the University [...]

PrizesThe most recent recipient of France's prestigious Medicis Prize is the jockey-turned-writer Homeric (born Frederic Dion), whose novel Le loup mongol takes readers on a breathless search for horse thieves [...]

The 1998 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award was presented on Tuesday, 10 November by the then FLS President, Dr Juliette Wood, following a lecture at University College London by Dr Simon [...]

On Sunday, 4 April 2004, the Kennedy Library will host the annual Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, America's best-known prize for a distinguished first book of fiction, and the L.L. Winship/PEN New [...]

The Joseph Conrad Society of America presents an annual award to an outstanding graduate student who is writing a dissertation on Conrad or to a recent PhD who has been [...]

Issues are presented concerning the decision which was taken by the Cervantes Prize jury in December 2000 in Madrid, Spain, to award a prize for literature to the poet laureate, Franciso Umbral.