Academy for Teachers
“STORIES OUT OF SCHOOL” FLASH FICTION CONTEST
Jules Fitz Gerald of southern Oregon won the 2024 “Stories Out of School” Flash Fiction Contest for “Orientation.” She received $1,000 and publication in A Public Space. Karen Russell judged. The annual award is given for a work of flash fiction about teachers and school, in which the protagonist or narrator is a K–12 teacher. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Academy for Teachers, “Stories Out of School” Flash Fiction Contest, 178 Columbus Avenue, P.O. Box 231167, New York, NY, 10023. Jeff Wills, Chief Operations Officer.
academyforteachers.org/contests
Academy of American Poets
FIRST BOOK AWARD
Robin Walter of Fort Collins, Colorado, won the 2024 First Book Award for Little Mercy. She will receive $5,000 and publication of her book by Graywolf Press in April 2025. Her work will also be featured on the Academy of American Poets website and in American Poets, and copies of her book will be distributed to over 5,000 members of the Academy of American Poets. Victoria Chang judged. The annual award is given to a poet who has not published a poetry collection in a standard edition. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Academy of American Poets, First Book Award, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038. (212) 274-0343, ext. 13. Nikay Paredes, Programs Director.
poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/first-book-award
American Academy of Arts and Letters
LITERATURE AWARDS
Seventeen writers were among those to receive awards in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Fiction writer and nonfiction writer Darryl Pinckney of New York City received the $100,000 Christopher Lightfoot Walker Award, given to “a writer who has made a significant contribution to American literature.” Fiction and nonfiction writer Andrew Holleran of Gainesville, Florida, received the $20,000 Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, given annually to a prose writer whose work “merits recognition for the quality of its style.” Fiction writer Gayl Jones of Lexington, Kentucky, received the $20,000 Katherine Anne Porter Award, given biennially to “a prose writer whose achievements and dedication to the literary profession have been demonstrated.” Fiction writers Cal Flyn of Orkney, Scotland, and Chetna Maroo of London won E. M. Forster Awards, given to “writers from the United Kingdom or Ireland for a stay in the United States.” They each received $20,000. Fiction writer Maya Binyam of Los Angeles won the $10,000 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Literature for Hangman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); the annual award is given for “an exceptional novel” published during the previous year. Nonfiction writer Jennifer Homans of New York City received the $10,000 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, given to “a critic of progressive, original, and experimental tendencies.” Translators Charlotte Mandell of the Hudson Valley in New York and Michael F. Moore of New York City won Thornton Wilder Prizes for Translation. They each received $10,000. Arts and Letters Awards in Literature winners included poet Ama Codjoe of New York City; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Elisa M. Gonzalez of New York City; poet and translator Boris Dralyuk of Los Angeles; fiction writers Lan Samantha Chang of Iowa City, Michelle Huneven of Altadena, California, and Elizabeth McCracken of Austin; and nonfiction writer David George Haskell of Sewanee, Tennessee. They each received $10,000. The annual awards are given to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators to honor “exceptional accomplishment” in literature. Taylor Koekkoek of Madison, Wisconsin, received the $5,000 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for his short story collection, Thrillville, USA (Simon & Schuster); the annual award honors a debut book of fiction published in the previous year. There is no application process.
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 633 West 155th Street, New York, NY 10032. (212) 368-5900.
American Poetry Review
HONICKMAN FIRST BOOK PRIZE
of Chicago won the 2024 Honickman First Book Prize for . He received $3,000, and his collection will be published in September by with distribution by Copper Canyon Press through Consortium. Roger Reeves judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection by a writer who has not yet published a book of poetry. The next deadline is October 1.
