Poets & Writers

Recent Winners

JANE SATTERFIELD Autumn House Press Poetry Prize

ANDREW BOURELLE Autumn House Press Fiction Prize

KARAN MAHAJAN Bard College Fiction Prize

American Literary Translators Association

NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARDS Hilary Kaplan of Los Angeles won the 2016 National Translation Award in Poetry for her translation from the Portuguese of Angélica Freitas’s poetry collection Rilke Shake (Phoneme Media). Adriana X. Jacobs, Karen Kovacik, and Cole Swensen judged. Elizabeth Harris of Grand Forks, North Dakota, won the 2016 National Translation Award in Prose for her translation from the Italian of Antonio Tabucchi’s novel Tristano Dies: A Life (Archipelago Books). Karen Emmerich, Andrea Labinger, and Marian Schwartz judged. They each received $2,500. The annual awards are given for a book of poetry and a book of prose translated from any language into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)

LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE

Sawako Nakayasu of Tokyo won the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for her translation from the Japanese of The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Canarium Books). She received $5,000. Steven Bradbury, Eleanor Goodman, and Kendall Heitzman judged. The annual award is given for a book of poetry translated from any Asian language into English and published in the previous year.(SEE DEADLINES.)

ITALIAN PROSE IN TRANSLATION AWARD Ann Goldstein of New York City won the 2016 Italian Prose in Translation Award for her translation from the Italian of Elena Ferrante’s novel The Story of the Lost Child (Europa Editions). She received $5,000. Michael Moore, Jamie Richards, and Russell Valentino judged. The annual award is given for a book of fiction or nonfiction translated from Italian into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)

American Literary Translators Association, 900 East 7th Street, PMB 266, Bloomington, IN 47405. Brittany Penzer, Managing Director. bpenzer@literarytranslators.org, bpenzer@literarytranslators.org, www.literarytranslators.org

Anhinga Press

ROBERT DANA–ANHINGA PRIZE FOR POETRY May Yang of San Diego won the 2016 Robert Dana–Anhinga Prize for her poetry collection To Whitey and the Cracker Jack. She received $2,000, and her book will be published by Anhinga Press in the spring. Evie Shockley judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is May 30.

Anhinga Press, Robert Dana–Anhinga Prize for Poetry, P.O. Box 3665, Tallahassee, FL 32315. (850) 577-0745. Kristine Snodgrass, Contact. info@anhinga.org, www.anhingapress.org, www.anhingapress.org

Arts & Letters

ARTS & LETTERS PRIZES Jude Nutter of Minneapolis won the Arts & Letters Prize for poetry for a group of poems. Micah Dean Hicks of Hope, Arkansas, won in fiction for his story “The Deer.” Dawn Davies of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, won in creative nonfiction for her essay “Mothers of Sparta.” They each received $1,000, and their winning works were published in the Fall 2016 issue of Arts & Letters. Carol Frost judged in poetry, Kate Christensen judged in fiction, and Faith Adiele judged in creative nonfiction. The annual awards are given for a group of poems, a short story, and an essay. (SEE DEADLINES.)

Arts & Letters, Arts & Letters Prizes, Georgia College, Campus Box 89, Milledgeville, GA 31061. (478) 445-1289. Laura Newbern, Editor. artsandletters.gcsu.edu

Ashland Poetry Press

RICHARD SNYDER PUBLICATION PRIZE Pamela Sutton of Marco Island, Florida, won the 2016 Richard Snyder Publication Prize for her poetry collection Burning My Birth Certificate. She received $1,000, and her book will be published by Ashland Poetry Press in the fall. Andrew Hudgins judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. (SEE DEADLINES.)

Ashland Poetry Press, Richard Snyder Publication Prize, Ashland University, 401 College Avenue, Ashland, OH 44805. Cassandra Brown, Managing Editor www.ashlandpoetrypress.com/guidelines/snyder-prize

Autumn House Press

LITERARY PRIZES

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