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2017 AWP Award Series Winner Wang Ping
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Prize for Creative Nonfiction has been awarded to Wang Pin for Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi (forthcoming from Calumet Press) Winner: Wang Ping Judge: Gretel Ehrlich Presented: March 2017 Wang...
Last Ride to Graceland by Kim Wright Wins Southern Fiction Award
On the 10th anniversary of its creation, the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction (www.williemorrisaward.org) is pleased to announce Last Ride to Graceland (Gallery Books) by Kim Wright the recipient of its 2016 literary award. Wright was honored at a ceremony at...
2017 San Francisco Writing Contest Grand Winner, Jing Li
GRAND PRIZE WINNER: The Red Sandals by Jing Li Presented: February 2017 Jing Li is originally from China, where she was a high school English teacher before she came to the United States in 1989 and earned her Master's degree/ Education in 1990. After twenty years as...
2017 Wm Faulkner Award Winner Julie Carrick Dalton
2017 William Faulkner Literary Contest Winner First Place, Novels – Julie Carrick Dalton The Poacher’s Code Presentation: December 2017 at William Faulkner Society's Annual Gala A FEW THINGS ABOUT ME 1) I have four kids, three chickens, two dogs, and one husband. And...
A HORSE WALKS INTO A BAR wins 2017 Man Booker International Prize
The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed in the course of one evening’s performance. In the dance between comic and audience, with barbs...
Meet Random House Debut Novelist Imbolo Mbue
Meet Random House debut author Imbolo Mbue, the winner of the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award, recognized as America’s largest peer-juried prize for fiction. Her debut novel BEHOLD THE DREAMERS earned her a $15,000 prize in April 2017. BEHOLD THE DREAMERS relates the...
Ingram Expands Publishers’ Global Distribution Network to Spain
Lightning Source LLC, part of Ingram Content Group (“Ingram”), is expanding its “Global Connect” print-on-demand (POD) and distribution network to Spain through an alliance with PodiPrint, one of the largest media publishing and distribution groups in Spain. "We are...
Francesca Hornak’s Warm, Wry Novel Infuses Family With Too Much Togetherness
A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel that portrays what happens when a family is quarantined together over the holidays—and when keeping secrets is no longer an option… It’s Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one...
Now, The Latest On Memoir Publishing
Memoir continues as a hot seller for the main body of book buyers in America: women. For the first six months of 2017, BookScan reported sales growth in the category Biography/Autobiography/Memoir—up 8% over sales figures for the same period in 2016. This is good news...
