Atlanta Writers Club
TOWNSEND PRIZE FOR FICTION
Sanjena Sathian of Atlanta won the 2023 Townsend Prize for Fiction for her novel, Gold Diggers (Penguin Press). She received $2,000. Christina Bieber, Erich Nunn, and Harry Stecopoulos judged. The biennial award is given for a novel, a novella, or a short story collection written and published in the previous two years by a current or past resident of the state of Georgia (if the author is a past resident, they must have lived in Georgia at the time their book was written and published). The next deadline is December 15, 2024.
Atlanta Writers Club, Townsend Prize for Fiction, 117A Wilton Drive, Decatur, GA 30030. (404) 229-3060. Clayton Ramsey, Officer Emeritus and Townsend Prize Director. clay@atlantawritersclub.org
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Asheville Poetry Review
WILLIAM MATTHEWS POETRY PRIZE
Kate DeLay of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, won the 2023 William Matthews Poetry Prize for “Repentance.” She received $1,000, and her poem will be published in Volume 30, Issue 33 of Asheville Poetry Review. She also received an invitation to give a reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, North Carolina. Diane Seuss judged. The annual award is given for a single poem. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Asheville Poetry Review, William Matthews Poetry Prize, P.O. Box 7086, Asheville, NC 28802. Keith Flynn, Managing Editor. kflynn62@hotmail.com
Bellingham Review
LITERARY AWARDS
Paige Lewis of Iowa City won the 2023 Parallel Award for Poetry for “The King Game.” Susan Nguyen judged. Katie Quach of Hội An, Vietnam, won the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction for “Wanting for Nothing.” Corinne Manning judged. Alexandra Dane of Seattle and Boston won the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction for “The Language of Flowers.” Sasha LaPointe judged. They each received $1,000, and their winning works will be published in the Fall/Winter 2024 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, 2024.
Bellingham Review, Literary Awards, Western Washington University, 516 High Street, Mail Stop 9053, Bellingham, WA 98225. Alex Phengsavath, Managing Editor. bellingham.review@wwu.edu
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Booker Prize Foundation
INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
Fiction writer and translator , both of Sofia, won the 2023 International Booker Prize for Rodel’s translation from the Bulgarian of Gospodinov’s novel (Liveright). They each received £25,000 (approximately $31,844). The finalists were of Cardedeu, Spain, and of Providence for Sanches’s translation from the Catalan of Baltasar’s novel (And Other Stories); and , both of Provence, (World Editions); of Côte d’Ivoire and of London for Wynne’s translation from the French of GauZ’s novel (MacLehose Press); of Yongin-si, South Korea, and of Los Angeles for Kim’s translation from the Korean of Myeong-kwan’s novel (Archipelago); and of Mexico City and of Coventry, England, for Harvey’s translation from the Spanish of Nettel’s novel (Fitzcarraldo Editions). The authors and translators each received £2,500 (approximately $3,184). Uilleam Blacker, Tan Twan Eng, Parul Sehgal, Leïla Slimani, and Frederick Studemann judged. The annual award is given for a story collection or novel translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland between May 1 of the previous year and April 30 of the award year. The deadline for books published between May 1, 2023, and November 30, 2023, has already passed; the deadline for books published between December 1, 2023, and April 30, 2024, is January 13, 2024.
