Recent Winners
JACQUELINE ALLEN TRIMBLE
Balcones Center Poetry Prize
TARA LASKOWSKI
Balcones Center Fiction Prize
Alice James Books
ALICE JAMES AWARD
Mia Ayumi Malhotra of San Mateo, California, won the 2017 Alice James Award for her poetry collection Isako, Isako. She received $2,000, and her book will be published by Alice James Books in April 2019. Andrés Cerpa of New York City received the Editor’s Choice Award for his collection Elegy With a Bicycle in a Ransacked City. He received $1,000, and his book will be published in January 2019. The annual awards are given for poetry collections. (SEE DEADLINES.) Alice James Books, Alice James Award, 114 Prescott Street, Farmington, ME 04938. (207) 778-7071. Alyssa Neptune, Managing Editor.
info@alicejamesbooks.orgwww.alicejamesbooks.org/alice-james-award
American Academy in Berlin
BERLIN PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS
Fiction writers V. V. Ganeshananthan of Minneapolis, Paul La Farge of Red Hook, New York, Thomas Chatterton Williams of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and Carole Maso of Providence received Berlin Prize Fellowships. They each received a semester-long residency at the Hans Arnhold Center at the American Academy in Berlin, a $5,000 monthly stipend, and round-trip airfare. The annual fellowships are given to fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and scholars. (SEE DEADLINES.)
American Academy in Berlin, Berlin Prize Fellowships, Am Sandwerder 17-19, 14109 Berlin, Germany. Johana Gallup, Fellows Selection Manager. jg@americanacademy.dewww.americanacademy.de/home/fellows
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship
Joanna Klink of Williamstown, Massachusetts, won the 2017–2018 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. She received $54,000. The annual scholarship is typically given to a U.S. poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, c/o Thomas H. P. Whitney Jr. and William A. Lowell, Choate, Hall & Stewart, LLP, 2 International Place, Boston, MA 02110. amylowell@choate.comwww.amylowell.org
Asheville Poetry Review
WILLIAM MATTHEWS POETRY PRIZE
Jared Harel of New York City won the 2017 William Matthews Poetry Prize for “You Want It Darker.” He received $1,000, and his poem will be published in Volume 24, Issue 27 of Asheville Poetry Review. He also received an invitation to give a reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, North Carolina. Cornelius Eady judged. The annual award is given for a poem. The next deadline is January 15, 2018.
Asheville Poetry Review, William Matthews Poetry Prize, P.O. Box 7086, Asheville, NC 28802. Keith Flynn, Managing Editor. www.ashevillepoetryreview.com
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
Naomi Alderman of London won the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel The Power (Viking). She received £30,000 (approximately $39,000). Sam Baker, Katie Derham, Aminatta Forna, Sara Pascoe, and Tessa Ross judged. Formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction, the annual award is given for a novel by a woman from anywhere in the world published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set.
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, c/o Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB. Paula Johnson, Contact. pjohnson@societyofauthors.orgwww.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk
Balcones Center for Creative Writing
BALCONES PRIZES
Jacqueline Allen Trimble of Montgomery, Alabama, won the 20th annual Balcones Poetry Prize for her collection, American Happiness (NewSouth Books). Prudence Arceneaux, John Herndon, and Richard Price judged. Tara Laskowskiof Washington, D.C. won the seventh annual Balcones Fiction Prize for her short story collection Bystanders (Santa Fe Writers Project). Amanda Eyre Ward judged. The winners each received $1,500. The annual awards honor a book of poetry and a book of fiction published during the previous year. The next deadline is January 31, 2018.
Balcones Center for Creative Writing, Balcones Prizes, Austin Community College, 1212 Rio Grande Street, Austin, TX, 78701. (512) 828-9368. John Herndon, Contact. jherndon@austincc.eduaustincc.edu/crw
Bellingham Review
LITERARY AWARDS
John Blair of San Marcos, Texas, won the 2017 49th Parallel Poetry Award for his poem “The Art of Forgetting.” Robert Cording judged. Janis Hubschman of Montclair, New Jersey, won the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction for her story “Escape Artist.” John Dufresne judged. Susan M. Stabile of College Station, Texas, won the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction for her essay “Mustard.” Julie Marie Wade judged. They each received $1,000, and their winning works will be published in the Spring 2018 issue of Bellingham Review. The annual awards are given for a poem, a short story, and a work of creative nonfiction. The next deadline is March 15, 2018.
Bellingham Review, Literary Awards, Western Washington University, Mail Stop 9053, Bellingham, WA 98225. Dayna Patterson, Managing Editor. bellingham.review@wwu.eduwww.bhreview.org
Binghamton University
BOOK AWARDS
Patricia Colleen Murphy of Phoenix won the 2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award for her collection, Hemming Flames (Utah State University Press). Dante Di Stefano judged. Helen Phillips of New York City won the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award for her story collection Some Possible Solutions (Henry Holt). Libby Tucker judged. They each received $1,000. The annual awards are given for a poetry collection and a novel or collection of short fiction published in the previous year. The next deadline is March 1, 2018.
Binghamton University, Book Awards, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902. (607) 777-2713. Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Director. english.binghamton.edu/cwpro
BOA Editions
A. POULIN JR. POETRY PRIZE
of Sacramento, California, won the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry. He received $1,500, and his book will be published by BOA Editions in 2018. Brenda Shaughnessy judged. The annual award is given for a first book of poetry. The next deadline is November 30.
