F155. Literary Awards: Help or Hindrance?

Salon F, Washington Convention Center, Level One
Friday, February 10, 2017
10:30 am to 11:45 am

 

Literary awards and prizes excite regular interest; writers, editors, publishers, and readers all pay attention to them. What roles do awards and prizes play in our literary culture? Who judges them, and for what constituencies? How are individual writers and groups of writers helped or hindered by them? What role can and should money play? Several writers who have judged or received literary awards and prizes will discuss the pros, cons, implications, and complications.


Participants

Moderator:

Leslie Shipman

Tiphanie Yanique is the author the novel, Land of Love and Drowning, winner of the First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction and the Rosenthal Family Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She is also a poet and short story writer. Her forthcoming book of poems is called Wife.

Jess Row is the author of the novel Your Face in Mine and the story collections The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost. He has received Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and a Whiting Award, and was named a "Best Young American Novelist" by Granta. He teaches at the College of New Jersey.

Mia Alvar is the author of In the Country, a collection of short stories, which won the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2015 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, the Missouri Review, and elsewhere.

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