Grand prize winner Wendy J. Fox on being compelled to write but constrained by time By Monica Prince Wendy J. Fox is the breakout star of the 2017 Literary Awards Program and this year’s grand prize winner for her manuscript, If the Ice Had Held, chosen...
Seeing pain as a wild animal By Monica Prince In the midst of hundreds of submissions to the 2017 Literary Awards Program, Kate Wisel’s manuscript Driving in Cars with Homeless Men caught the eye of judge Benjamin Percy. Wisel’s work, a linked short...
Writing when there are bills to pay: An exchange with author Doug Crandell By Monica Prince This year’s Literary Awards Program had stiff competition and stellar manuscripts for judge Benjamin Percy to review. Author Doug Crandell placed as one of two...
Here we go! The short list for the 2017 Literary Awards Program! The Long List is right here. What an amazing selection of manuscripts we received this year. The closer we get to the final three winners, the harder it is to select which manuscripts move on through the...
To find out, we took to Twitter… Her winning book, Magic for Unlucky Girls, is available for preorder. 0 ? What was the biggest literary inspiration for Magic for Unlucky Girls? ? So, @AABalaskovits what was the biggest literary inspiration for Magic for...
By Anne Pinkerton Elizabeth Horneber is the first runner-up of SFWP’s 2015 Literary Awards Program for her book Chinese Red, a collection of connected essays about a girl who leaves home, falls for a country and a man, and then struggles to make sense of things when...
