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Shirley Jackson Award
The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and dark fantasy are presented at Readercon, an annual conference on imaginative literature. Writing in ''Salon'' in 2010, Laura Miller noted, "The awards...have already proved a fitting tribute to a writer who roamed freely over similar ground and has never quite gotten the respect she deserves." Award winners are selected by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics and academics, with input from a board of advisors. The awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection and Edited Anthology. The first annual Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on July 20, 2007, at the Readercon Conference on Imaginative Literature in Burlington, Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a Sponsor (commercial), corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish language, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Generation Loss (novel)
''Generation Loss'' is a 2007 novel by American writer Elizabeth Hand. Reception ''Generation Loss'' was generally well received by critics, including a starred review from ''Booklist'' and ''Publishers Weekly''. ''Booklist'''s David Pitt called the protagonist "utterly compelling" and noted that the novel is "brilliantly written and completely original." Describing the novel, ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote about how Hand "explores the narrow boundary between artistic genius and madness in this gritty, profoundly unsettling literary thriller." In addition to other praise, they noted that "the novel's final chapters ..are a terror tour-de-force that testify to the power of great fiction to disturb and provoke." ''The Washington Post'''s Lloyd Rose stated that the novel's "portrayal of gritty suffering is as strong as its fantastical elements". A few reviewers commented on the writing style and genre conventions. Pitt highlighted how the novel "veers off in a new and exciting di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tin House
''Tin House'' is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. History Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArthur as managing editor and developed the magazine with the help of two experienced New York editors, Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell. In 2005, ''Tin House'' expanded into the book division, Tin House Books. They also began to run a by-admission-only summer writers' workshop held at Reed College. ''Tin House'' was honored by major American literary awards and anthologies, particularly for its fiction. A story from the Summer 2003 issue, "Breasts" by Stuart Dybek, was featured in ''The Best American Short Stories'' for 2004 in literature, 2004, and in 2006, "Window" by Deborah Eisenberg was a "juror favorite" in ''O. Henry Award, The O. Henry Prize Stories''. In December 2018, ''Tin House'' announced that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Grove Press
Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1947. Imprints include: Black Cat, Evergreen, Venus Library, and Zebra. Barney Rosset purchased the company in 1951 and turned it into an alternative book press in the United States. He partnered with Richard Seaver to bring French literature to the United States. The Atlantic Monthly Press, under the aegis of its publisher, Morgan Entrekin, merged with Grove Press in 1993. Grove later became an imprint of the publisher Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Early years Grove Press was founded in 1947 in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, on Grove Street. The original owners only published three books in three years and so sold it to Barney Rosset in 1951 for three thousand dollars. Literary avant-garde Under Rosset's leadership, Grove introduced American readers to European avant-garde literature and theatre, including French authors Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean Genet, and Eugène Ionesco. In 1954, Grove published Samuel Beckett's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Harper Voyager
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British–American publishing company that is considered to be one of the " Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. HarperCollins is headquartered in New York City and London and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The company's name is derived from a combination of the firm's predecessors. Harper & Brothers, founded in 1817 in New York, merged with Row, Peterson & Company in 1962 to form Harper & Row, which was acquired by News Corp in 1987. The Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons, founded in 1819 in Glasgow, was acquired by News Corp in 1987 and merged with Harper & Row to form HarperCollins. The logo for the firm combines the fire from Harper's torch and the water from Collins' fountain. HarperCollins operates publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China, and publishes under various impr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nick Gevers
Nick Gevers (born 1965) is a South African science fiction editor and critic, whose work has appeared in ''The Washington Post Book World'', '' Interzone'', SciFi.com, SF Site, ''The New York Review of Science Fiction'' and ''Nova Express''. He wrote two regular review columns for '' Locus'' magazine from 2001 to 2008, and is editor at the British independent press, PS Publishing; he also edits the quarterly genre fiction magazine, ''Postscripts''. Gevers was co-editor, with Keith Brooke, of the science fiction anthologies ''Infinity Plus One'' (2001) and ''Infinity Plus Two'' (2003) and in August 2007 released the combined ''Infinity Plus'' through Solaris Books. His first original anthology, '' Extraordinary Engines'', was published by Solaris Books in October 2008, and a second, '' Other Earths'' (co-edited with Jay Lake), by DAW Books in Spring 2009. Subsequent original anthologies are ''This is the Summer of Love'', ''Enemy of the Good'', and ''Edison's Frankenstein'' (al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2011 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2011. Events *June 7 – Ransom Riggs publishes his young-adult novel ''Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'', which pins its narrative around a series of earlier vernacular photography, private photographs he had collected. It remains top of ''The New York Times'' Children's Chapter Books list for 45 weeks and founds a series of five novels. *July – J. K. Rowling ends her relationship with her long-standing agent Christopher Little Literary Agency, Christopher Little and joins his rival, Neil Blair (agent), Neil Blair. *September 24 – The first 100 Thousand Poets for Change Day takes place, the organization having been founded by Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion in March. *November 12 – The Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library opens in Istanbul, Turkey. New books Fiction *Chris Adrian – ''The Great Night (novel), The Great Night'' *David Almond – ''The True Tale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Al Sarrantonio
Al Sarrantonio (May 25, 1952 – January 27, 2025) was an American horror and science fiction writer, editor, and publisher who authored more than 50 books and 90 short stories. He also edited numerous anthologies. Background and education Sarrantonio was born in New York City on May 25, 1952, and grew up on Long Island. He was of Italian and Scots-Irish descent. He began his career at the age of 16 with a nonfiction appearance in one of editor Ray Palmer's publications. He continued to write throughout university, and in 1974, after graduation from Manhattan College with a B.A. in English, he attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop at Michigan State University. Sarrantonio died on January 27, 2025, at the age of 72. Career In 1976 Sarrantonio began an editing career at a major New York publishing house. His first short fiction, "Ahead of the Joneses," appeared in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' in 1979, followed by a story in '' Heavy Metal'' maga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2010 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2010. Events *February – The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", is officially opened. *April 3 – The Apple Inc., Apple iPad electronic book-reading device is released. *April 12 – The little-known U.S. author Paul Harding (author), Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel ''Tinkers (novel), Tinkers'' (2009 in literature, 2009) published by the tiny Bellevue Literary Press. *June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal (literary award), Carnegie Medal and the Newbery Medal for the same book — ''The Graveyard Book''. *July 27 – Stieg Larsson's ''Millennium Trilogy'' becomes an international sensation, with a total of 27 million copies sold worldwide as of May 2010. On July 27 Amazon says that Larsson is the first author to sell more than 1 million Amazon Kindle, Kindle e-books.Stephen Lowman, "Book World", page 12, Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth
''Tunneling to the Center of the Earth'' is the debut short story collection of Kevin Wilson, published in April 2009 by Ecco/HarperCollins. Reviews ''The New York Times'' states, "Wilson offers fabulous twists and somersaults of the imagination" and his work is "daring and often exquisitely tender." Awards {, class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" , +Awards for ''Tunneling to the Center of the Earth'' !Year !Award !Result !Ref. , - , 2009 , Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection , Winner , , - , 2010 , American Library Association's Alex Award The Alex Awards annually recognize "ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18". Since 2002, the Alex Awards have been administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of th ... , Selection , {{cite web , last=Wilson , first=Kevin , date=2011-08-08 , title=A Delightful Portrait Of The Screwball 'Family Fang' , url=https://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2009 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2009. Events *April 21 – UNESCO launches the World Digital Library. *May 1 – Carol Ann Duffy is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first woman in the position; she is also the first Scot and the first openly gay occupant of the post. *May 5 – J. R. R. Tolkien's narrative poem ''The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún'' in alliterative verse, based on the 13th century ''Poetic Edda'' and probably written in the 1930s, is published posthumously. *May 16– 25 – Ruth Padel becomes the first woman ever elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford but resigns nine days later after it is alleged she was involved in what some sources call as a smear campaign against Derek Walcott, a rival for the post. * June 25 – American pop singer Michael Jackson dies of an acute propofol intoxication at the age of 50. *August 10 – Standard orthography for the Silesian language is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Shadow Year
''The Shadow Year'' is a 2008 novel by Jeffrey Ford. Background The novel is an expansion of the novella "Botch Town", which was published in his 2006 short story collection ''The Empire of Ice Cream''. The novella was nominated for the World Fantasy Award—Novella and the Locus Award for Best Novella in 2006. In an interview with ''Locus'', Ford said that the concept behind the novel was based on events from his life, and "was really kind of a memoir" before his editor encouraged him to rewrite the novel and "make it a story." The model town built by the protagonists in their basement is based on a train set that Ford and his brother played with during their childhood. Synopsis Three children, two boys, and a girl live in a quiet Long Island town with their alcoholic mother and hardworking father in the 1960s. The boys build Botch Town, a tiny model of their hometown in the basement. One summer, a prowler begins terrorizing their neighborhood during a string of mysterious e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
