RECENT AWARDS

The Antioch Review is proud to announce that it has been named a finalist in the essay category for the 44th Annual National Magazine Award.  This award is the first time  the Review has won this award.  The winning essay is Vickie’s Pour House: A Soldier’s Peace by Maureen McCoy.  For more information, see the National Magazine Award website and here.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced its 2009 Literature Award Winners.  Mark Strand, a member of our National Advisory Board, has been awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry to honor an entire body of work.  Another board member, T. Coraghessan Boyle, is a newly elected member of the Academy.

Kathryn Ma’s book, All That Work and Still No Boys, has been selected the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award.  The book, which will be published by the University of Iowa Press in September 2009, includes the story “What I Know Now,” which originally appeared in the Winter 2003 Antioch Review.

Melissa Delbridge’s memoir Family Bible has won the University of Iowa Press Great Likes Colleges Association New Writers Award and has been published by the University of Iowa Press. It includes “Gun and Bait, ” first published as “West Green and River Bend, Gun and Bait,” in a special memoir issue of the Antioch Review, Fall 2006.

Puschcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses 2009 will include a story by Edith Pearlman. “Elder Jinks ” was first published in the Fall 2007 issue of the Antioch Review.

 

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