Sentences with phrase «american literary awards»

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Our annual literary awards was established to honor writers who self - published or had their books published by a subsidy publisher, small press, university press, or independent book publisher geared for the North American reading audience.

Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer (and a pile of other awards) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but I've always been all about Drown, his first collection of short stories and the book that singled him out as the most promising literary voice of the Dominican - American community.

The award is well deserved and is creative literary fiction that still addresses an important historical period but looks to where Americans are now with how they address and deal with racism?

This morning she was named a recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award — given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters — honoring «a young writer of considerable literary talent for a work published in 2012» and accompanied by a prize of $ 10,000.

The American Library Association is launching a new literary award that is primarily aimed at debut and self - published authors.

It won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and an American prize, the Julia Child Award for «literary food writing».

The acceptance of comics into the larger world of American art and books has generally come through awards, reviews, and academic study of longer form, «literary» comics, the kinds of books to which terms like «graphic novel» and «sequential art» are routinely attached.

The award is presented annually and in even years (i.e. 2012, 2014, 2016...) to an African American author, illustrator or author / illustrator for a body of his or her published books for children and / or young adults who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution.

National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

The Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement is presented in even years to an African American author, illustrator or author / illustrator for a body of his or her published books for children and / or young adults, and who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution.

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She has contributed to, and been written about, in several anthologies of literary criticism including: The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (Fence Books, 2015); The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip - Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015); What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (University of Alabama Press, 2015); The & Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2015); I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues Pess, 2012); eco language reader (Portable Press at Yo - Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010); American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002).

Among her honors is a Pew Foundation Fellowship in the Arts in literary non-fiction (1994); an Award for Best Catalogue, International Art Critics Association, American Section, for I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin, (1995); and a writing residency at the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, (1999).