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AWP Award Series Reading and Celebration
Friday, March 10, 2023
4:45 pm to 6:15 pm
Join AWP for a reading and reception featuring the 2021 AWP Award Series winners: Anne-Marie Oomen (creative nonfiction), Elizabeth Shick (novel), Paul Hlava Ceballos (poetry), and Daphne Kalotay (short fiction). AWP invites you to this extraordinary reading and reception to celebrate AWP’s Award Series winners, our partner presses that publish the Award Series winners, and the creation of a new endowment to sustain AWP’s Award Series Prize for the Novel, now called the James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel. McPherson was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, a beloved professor and mentor of countless writers at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and one of the first winners of the MacArthur Fellowship. We are honored the prize will bear his name. The winner of the 2023 Prize for the Novel will be the first awardee to receive this prize.
Participants
Anne-Marie Oomen won AWP’s Sue William Silverman Creative Nonfiction Award for her memoir As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book. A previous memoir, Love, Sex, and 4-H won a Next Generation Indie Award for memoir. She has four Michigan Notable books. She teaches at Solstice MFA at Lasell University.
Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the 2021 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood, shares pages with Quenton Baker and Dr. Christina Sharpe. He lives in Seattle, where he practices echocardiography.
Elizabeth Shick is the debut author of The Golden Land, winner of the 2021 AWP Prize for the Novel. A longtime American expatriate, she has spent the past twenty-seven years in Asia, Africa, and Europe, and now resides in Bangladesh. She holds an MFA from Lesley University and an MIA from Columbia University.
Daphne Kalotay is the author of the award-winning novels Sight Reading and Russian Winter and a new novel, Blue Hours, a 2020 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read.” Her debut fiction collection, Calamity and Other Stories, was shortlisted for the Story Prize. She is on the faculty of the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University.
