Bonnie Chau, Grand Prize Winner of the 2040 Books Literary Awards Program, Talks Sex and Identity Author Bonnie Chau won the grand prize in the inaugural 2040 Books Contest with her gripping short story collection All Roads Lead to Blood. Contest judge Mat...
Author and editor Atossa Shafaie is one of the featured contributors in the inaugural issue of the SFWP Annual, a new anthology of fiction and creative nonfiction from the Santa Fe Writers Project that just hit the shelves in print and electronic format everywhere...
Hello again Awards Program folks! We now have a top ten list. From the names below, the winners will emerge — hopefully within the next week or two! We announced the short list a few weeks ago right here. The long list of finalists is right here. And, now, in no...
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...
I don’t envy the judge. With so many excellent manuscripts in hand, just getting down to the long list of finalists was a major effort. If I had my way, this list could easily have had a couple hundred names on it – there were so many manuscripts that caught our eye,...
The 2017 Literary Awards Program ended on July 20th. This year, we received nearly 800 entries from over 30 countries. Even at a glance these last few days, I’ve been blown away by the amazing quality of the manuscripts, and the wide range of voices and styles. I saw...
