Recent Winners

Academy for Teachers 

STORIES OUT OF SCHOOL FLASH FICTION CONTEST

Josephine Sarvaas of Westmead, Australia, won the 2022 Stories Out of School Flash Fiction Contest for “Sunshower.” She received $1,000 and publication in A Public Space. Julia Alvarez judged. The annual award is given for a work of flash fiction about teachers and school. (SEE DEADLINES.)

Academy for Teachers, Stories Out of School Flash Fiction Contest, 10 West 90th Street, New York, NY 10024. Rene Marion, Dean of Fellows. rene@academyforteachers.org academyforteachers.org/contests

Academy of American Poets

FIRST BOOK AWARD

Kweku Abimbola of Detroit won the 2022 First Book Award for Saltwater Demands a Psalm. He received $5,000; a six-week all-expenses-paid residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, Italy; and publication of his book by Graywolf Press in April 2023. His work will also be featured on the Academy of American Poets website and in Ameri

 can Poets, and copies of his book will be distributed to over 5,000 members of the Academy of American Poets. Tyehimba Jess judged. The annual award is given to a poet who has not published a poetry collection in a standard edition. (SEE DEADLINES.)

Academy of American Poets, First Book Award, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038. (212) 274-0343, ext. 13. Nikay Paredes, Programs Director. awards@poets.org poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/first-book-award

American Academy of Arts and Letters

LITERATURE AWARDS

Fourteen writers received awards in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Poet Stephen Dobyns of Westerly, Rhode Island, received the $25,000 Award of Merit for Poetry, given sexenially to an “outstanding poet.” Fiction writer Lynne Tillman of New York City received the $20,000 Katherine Anne Porter Award, given biennially to an accomplished prose writer who has demonstrated “dedication to the literary profession.” Fiction and nonfiction writer Joshua Cohen of New York City received the $20,000 Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, given annually to a writer whose work “merits recognition for the quality of its prose style.” Translator Edith Grossman of New York City received the $20,000 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation, given biennially for “a significant contribution to the art of literary translation.” Poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Patricia Lockwood of Savannah received the $10,000 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, given biennially to a writer of “progressive, original, and experimental tendencies.” Fiction writer Kirstin Valdez Quade of Princeton, New Jersey, won the $10,000 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for her novel, The Five Wounds (Norton). The annual award is given to a “young writer of considerable literary talent” for a book published during the previous year. Arts and Letters Awards in Literature were given to poet Catherine Barnett of New York City; poet, fiction writer, and essayists Sarah Manguso of Los Angeles and Joyelle McSweeney of South Bend, Indiana; poet, nonfiction writer, and translator Susan Brind Morrow of Chatham, New York; fiction and nonfiction writer Jo Ann Beard of Rhinebeck, New York; fiction, nonfiction writer, and translator Adrian Nathan West of Spain and the United States; and nonfiction writer Doug Peacock of Emigrant, Montana. They each received $10,000. The annual awards are given to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators to honor “exceptional accomplishment” in literature. Jackie Polzin of St. Paul received the $5,000 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for her novel, Brood (Doubleday); the annual award honors a debut book of fiction published in the previous year. The awards are given by members of the Academy. There is no application process.

American Academy of Arts and Letters, Literature Awards, 633 West 155th Street, New York, NY 10032. (212) 368-5900. artsandletters.org

American Poetry Review

HONICKMAN FIRST BOOK PRIZE

of Big Island, Virginia, won the 2022 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for . She received $3,000, and her collection will be published in September by with distribution by Copper Canyon Press through Consortium. Jericho Brown judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection by a writer who has not yet published a book of poems. The next deadline