awards
-
Nominations for the First Annual Woke Men Awards
The most important night for fragile male egos is nearly upon us.
-
The Lulu Fund: Burning Down the House
The Lulu Fund is a new organization founded by Anna March, Ashley Ford, Jen Fitzgerald, and Ashley Perez dedicated to breaking down barriers within the writing community. The Lulu Fund mission statement says: We support individual writers and organizations who demonstrate their…
-
Ghost Horse Wins Award
Congratulations to Rumpus reviewer Thomas H. McNeely for winning the 9th Annual Gival Press Novel Award! The winning novel, Ghost Horse, tells “the story of a boy’s journey to escape an abusive relationship with his father and to discover the truth about his…
-
2013 PEN Award Shortlists
PEN America has released the shortlists for its 2013 prizes, which you can check out here. There are ten prizes in categories ranging from debut fiction to literary science writing to biography (for which Rumpus columnist Peter Orner was a…
-
We Love Paul Madonna
The 31st Annual Northern California Book Awards will honor our own Paul Madonna with the NCBR Recognition Award for Everything Is Its Own Reward, An All Over Coffee Collection. The free ceremony will include readings by this year’s award-winning authors,…
-
On The ASME Imbalance
At The Awl, Lucy Madison breaks down the many numbers, ratios, and biases behind the absence of women nominees in the National Magazine Awards’ major “brass-ring” categories. “As far as the ASME awards go, women are unlikely to see a…
-
Best Contradiction
Electric Literature’s monthly Critical Hit Awards for book reviews gives David Winters’ Rumpus review of Dogma the prize for Best Contradiction. Hooray! “Reviewing a book that ‘sets itself up to fail, then fails to do that,’ David Winters makes a…
-
Van Booy Wins Frank O’Connor Award for Short Story Collection
British writer Simon Van Booy has won “the world’s richest short story prize”, the Frank O’Connor award, for his collection Love Begins in Winter. Van Booy, who lives in New York and is also the author of The Secret Lives…
