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Chanticleer Book Reviews hosts several competitions each year in a variety of genres (see graphic below), as well as short story awards and a nifty NaNoWriMo Raw competition.

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His first novel, Morte D'Urban (1962), won the National Book Award, as did a third short - story collection, Look How the Fish Live (1973) Although more uneven than the first two collections, this book still contained the requisite number of outstanding pieces.

The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet, written by the Geophysical Laboratory's Bob Hazen, has been chosen from books released in 2012 as one of the five titles on the short list for the current Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, one of the three book awards given by Phi Beta Kappa annually.

Elle Fanning stars as an alien a long way from home in this 1970s Croydon - set teen romance based on the award - winning short story by Neil Gaiman.

Dark Horse Comics has announced that Eisner - award winning creator Mark Buckingham (Fables) is adapting four of New York Times best - selling author Neil Gaiman's prose short stories for the upcoming graphic novel anthology Likely Stories, to be published as a hardcover original graphic novel by Dark Horse Book later thistories for the upcoming graphic novel anthology Likely Stories, to be published as a hardcover original graphic novel by Dark Horse Book later thiStories, to be published as a hardcover original graphic novel by Dark Horse Book later this year.

Adapted from the James Joyce story of the same name (it has featured in the acclaimed Irish writer's short works collection Dubliners), The Dead was Huston's 37th feature film as a director, and came just two years after his final Academy Award ® nomination for Prizzi's Honor.

Written and directed by Don Coscarelli and based on the Bram Stoker Award - nominated short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, BUBBA HO - TEP stars cult icon Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness, «Ash vs. Evil Dead») as Elvis Presley, the late, great Ossie Davis (Grumpy Old Men, Do The Right Thing) as John «Jack» Kennedy, Ella Joyce (Set It Off, Stop!

Along with games (Fun With English and Briar Rose Enchanted Dance Game), song selections and a music video (Emily Osment croons an updated version of Once Upon a Dream), there are two additional Disney productions: The Peter Tchaikovsky Story (a dramatization of the composer's life which aired as an episode of the Walt Disney TV show to introduce the studio's upcoming release of Sleeping Beauty) and Grand Canyon (the award - winning short film featuring panoramic vistas that accompanied Sleeping Beauty's theatrical run).

In non-casting news, of course, we've got the details on the Academy Awards producer / host shuffle and an update on the upcoming Justice League movie from Warner Bros. as well as a little sneak peek at the xnew Toy Story short film set to play ahead of the November 23rd release, The Muppets.

As you likely already know... it's extremely difficult to get an agent or publisher for a novella... short story... or collection of short stories... unless you're already a well - published and / or award - winning author.

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.

Billed as «A Conversation» between Patchett and her friend and fellow writer Edith Pearlman (whose short story collection is a finalist in this year's National Book Awards), watching two authors chat before a considerable crowd in the War Memorial Auditorium was a glimpse into the writer's world that stood out from the crowd of readings and panel discussions.

Indiana Review publishes work by both established and emerging writers, and works by contributors to have been awarded the Pushcart Prize and reprinted in The Pushcart Prize Anthology: Best of the Small Presses, as well as in Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.

Use any short stories you get published — especially if they win an award — in your submission to agents as evidence of your ability to write, and increase your chances of getting an agent.

Half The World Global Literati Award The annual US$ 50,000 cash prize will be awarded to a short story, novel or screenplay written in English, judged to have portrayed one or more well - rounded female protagonists as the central character.

Since his first published short story won the Rod Serling Memorial Award in the 1982 Twilight Zone Magazine Short Fiction contest, Dan Simmons has won some of the top awards in science fiction, horror, fantasy, and thriller genres, as well as honors for his mainstream ficshort story won the Rod Serling Memorial Award in the 1982 Twilight Zone Magazine Short Fiction contest, Dan Simmons has won some of the top awards in science fiction, horror, fantasy, and thriller genres, as well as honors for his mainstream ficShort Fiction contest, Dan Simmons has won some of the top awards in science fiction, horror, fantasy, and thriller genres, as well as honors for his mainstream fiction.

He's won Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Hugo Awards, published dozens of short stories and novels, and has worked on such television shows as Beauty in the Beast, The Outer Limits, and The Twilight Zone.

Maybe as authors we'd shine more if we could display awards on our book covers or publish free copies of winning short stories at the backs of our books.

And don't forget to vote for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year judge Simon Trewin, shortlisted for the FutureBook Award as one of the most inspirational people in digital publishing — details here, and you can vote here, the results of the Award will be announced at the conference.

The stories have been published in seven languages — one has sold more than 250,000 copies as an e-book («The Book Case» by Nelson DeMille)-- and another won the Edgar Allan Poe Award as the Best Short Story of the Year («The Caxton Lending Library and Book Depository» by John Connolly).

American writers — such as PEN / Faulkner Award winner Ann Patchett, Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr and The Giver author Lois Lowry — wrote short stories inspired by paintings of empty highways, empty fields behind homes and storefronts shut down for the night.

The short documentary Broken Landscape: Confronting India's Water - Energy Choke Point won Honorable Mention in the category of Outstanding Feature Story by the Society of Environmental Journalists» Awards for Reporting on the Environment, as well as a 2015 Silver Telly award.