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Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award
The Center for Women Writers is a literary arts organization based at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Center for Women Writers was established in 1996, which coincided with the 225th anniversary of the opening of Salem Academy & College. The first director was Annette Allen. In addition to hosting literary arts events, the Center for Women Writers underwrites an annual January Term Writer-in-Residence and manages the International Literary Awards, initially called the National Literary Awards. These awards include the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award, Rita Dove Poetry Award, and the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. Past winners Short fiction * 2003 - Sheryl Monks * 2004 - Jennifer S. Davis * 2007 - Bonnie Jo Campbell * 2008 - Becky Hagenston * 2009 - Jacob Appel * 2011 - Colette Sartor * 2013 - T.D. Storm * 2014 - Bushra Rehman * 2015 - Kerry Hill * 2016 - JoeAnne Hart * 2017 - Jaquira Díaz * 2018 - Kristen Gentry *2019- Elizabeth Edelglass *2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salem College
Salem College is a private women's liberal arts college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1772 as a primary school, it later became an academy (high school) and ultimately added the college. It is the oldest female educational establishment that is still a women's college and the oldest women's college in the Southern United States. Though Salem is regarded as a women's college, men 23 years of age and over are admitted into the continuing education program through the Martha H. Fleer Center for Adult Education and into graduate-degree programs. Salem College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. History and campus Located in the historic Moravian community of Salem, Salem College was originally a girls' school established by the Moravians, who believed strongly in equal education for men and women. On April 22, 1772, the ''Little Girls' School'' was founded. Sister Elisabeth Oesterlein, who travelled from B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reynolds Price
Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in Biblical scholarship. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters."Reynolds Price author and long-time Duke English professor, dies." ''Duke Office of News and Communications''. 20 Jan 2011. Web. Biography Price was born Edward Reynolds Price in Macon, North Carolina, on February 1, 1933, the first of two sons of William Solomon and Elizabeth Price. Both he and his mother narrowly survived an extremely taxing childbirth; family legend states that during these circumstances, Will Price prayed and made a promise to God that if his wife and son survived, he would quit drinking alcohol.Schiff, James. ''Understanding Reynolds Price''. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. Print. Price's family, struggling under the eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020 she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing. Early life Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob M
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah, and Bethuel. According to the biblical account, he was the second-born of Isaac's children, the elder being Jacob's fraternal twin brother, Esau. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan, Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh), moved to Egypt where Jacob died at the age of 147. He is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah. Jacob had twelve sons through four women, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz is a Puerto Rican fiction writer, essayist, journalist, cultural critic, and professor. She is the author of ''Ordinary Girls'', which received a Whiting Award in Nonfiction, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Finalist. She has written for ''The Atlantic'', ''Time (magazine)'', ''The Best American Essays'', ''Tin House'', '' The Sun'', ''The Fader'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''The Guardian'', '' Longreads'', '' ''and other places. She was an editor at the'' ''Kenyon Review'' ''and a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.'' ''In 2022, she held the Mina Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University's MFA program and a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has taught creative writing at Colorado State University's MFA program, Randolph College's low-residency MFA program, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kenyon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Bathanti
Joseph Bathanti (born July 20, 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American poet, novelist and professor. He was named by Governor Bev Perdue as the seventh North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2012–2014. Biography Early life and education Bathanti was born July 20, 1953, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the East Liberty area of Pittsburgh. His grandparents were immigrants from Italy and France. His working-class family included a steelworker father and a seamstress mother. After graduating from Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, he attended California State College. In 1972, he transferred to the University of Pittsburgh and, in 1975, received a bachelor's degree in English. Personal life Bathanti lives in Vilas, North Carolina, with his wife, Joan, and two children. Bathanti and his wife met while both were working with the VISTA program. Career After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, Bathanti traveled to North Carolina in 1976 as part of the V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mako Yoshikawa
Mako Yoshikawa (born 1966) is an American novelist. She is the author of two novels, ''One Hundred and One Ways'' (1999), a national bestseller that was also translated into six languages, and ''Once Removed'' (2003). Her recent work includes personal essays that have won awards and appeared in important literary journals and anthologies including: ''The Missouri Review'', ''Southern Indiana Review'', ''Harvard Review'', and ''Best American Essays 2013''. Eds. Cheryl Strayed and Robert Atwan. Yoshikawa grew up in Princeton, New Jersey but spent two years of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan. She received a BA in English literature from Columbia University, a Masters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Lincoln College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the recipient of the Vera M. Schuyler Fellowship at The Bunting Institute of Harvard University. She has also published scholarly essays on race and incest in Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos is an American writer and professor. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, ''Whip Smart'' (2010)'','' and the essay collections, ''Abandon Me'' (2017) and ''Girlhood'' (2021)''.'' Early life and education Febos grew up in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Her father was a sea captain, and her mother a therapist. She left home at 16 after passing the GED, moved to Boston, and worked at an assortment of jobs including as a boatyard hand and as a chambermaid. She attended night courses at Harvard Extension School, then enrolled in The New School and moved to New York City in August 1999. She later earned an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. Career Febos is the author of ''Whip Smart'' (St Martin's Press 2010), a memoir of her work as a professional dominatrix while she was studying at The New School.Alyssa Fetini Friday, Inside the Secret World of a Dominatrix, Time Magazine, March 19, 2010 Her second book, the lyric essay collection ''Abandon Me'', was publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of American Literary Awards
This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards. International awards All nationalities & multiple languages eligible (in chronological order) * Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901 * Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings – since 1966 * Neustadt International Prize for Literature – since 1970 * International Botev Prize – since 1972 * The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – since 1978 * Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979 * America Award – since 1994 * Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – since 1997 * Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001 * Sense of Gender Awards – since 2001 * Ovid Prize – since 2002 * Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006 * European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009 * Jan Michalski Prize for Literature – since 2009 * Paris Literary Prize – since 2010 * KONS International Literary Award – since 2011 * Grand Prix of Liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Literary Awards
This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards. International awards All nationalities & multiple languages eligible (in chronological order) * Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901 * Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings – since 1966 * Neustadt International Prize for Literature – since 1970 * International Botev Prize – since 1972 * The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – since 1978 * Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979 * America Award – since 1994 * Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – since 1997 * Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001 * Sense of Gender Awards – since 2001 * Ovid Prize – since 2002 * Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006 * European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009 * Jan Michalski Prize for Literature – since 2009 * Paris Literary Prize – since 2010 * KONS International Literary Award – since 2011 * Grand Prix of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Fiction Awards
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Awards Established In 2002
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
