The Literary Consultancy has created an independent grant-making foundation and poetry award in memory of founder Rebecca Swift. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joan Silber won the fiction prize, Frances Fitzgerald won the nonfiction award, Layli Long Soldier won the poetry award and John McPhee was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at the NBCC's award ceremony. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet Roger McGough has criticised the lack of submissions for the 2015 Children's Poetry Award, for which he is chair of the judges, saying "so few publishers are producing poetry books for children and young people." McGough was speaking as the shortlist for the £1,000 award, made by The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jacqueline Woodson won the young people's literature prize for her book 'Brown Girl Dreaming,' while Louise Glück was the recipient of the poetry award for her work 'Faithful and Virtuous Night.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]