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Maine Literary Awards names winners, honors Carolyn Chute Blue Summer by Jim Nichols won for fiction, and Kerri Asenault s Mill Town for nonfiction.
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Maine writers and readers celebrated the year’s top books during an online Maine Literary Awards ceremony Thursday evening, hosted by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.
The annual competition is open to all Maine residents, and includes categories for published books, as well as drama, short works and student writing. Nearly 300 writers sent work for consideration.
Carolyn Chute won the 2021 MWPA Distinguished Achievement Award “for exceptional and steadfast contributions to the Maine literary arts as a fiction writer.” Portland writer Ron Currie Jr. presented the award and read remarks prepared by Chute.
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‘Beneficence,’ ‘Sigh, Gone’ among Maine Literary Awards finalists
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance will reveal the winners during an online ceremony May 27.
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The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance announced finalists for the 2021 Maine Literary Awards on Thursday. The winners will be revealed May 27, when the awards are presented via Zoom, beginning at 7 p.m. Nearly 300 writers and publishers submitted works for consideration by more than 40 jurors.
The finalists:
Claire Ackroyd, “Murder in the Maple Woods”
Book Award for Fiction
Kate Kennedy, “Skin: A Memoir”
Éireann Lorsung, “The Century”
Michael K. Komanecky, Jane Biano, and Angela Waldron, “Maine and American Art: The Farnsworth Art Museum”
Twenty Seven Wyeths Tuesday, April 20, 2021 11:59 AM James Wyeth, Islander, 1975, Oil on canvas, 34 x 44-3/8 inches, Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum N.C. Wyeth, (American, 1882â1945) âFishermanâs Family,â prior to 1935, Oil on canvas, 60 x 71.75 inches Andrew Wyeth, (American, 1917â2009), âGeraniums,â 1960, Drybrush watercolor on paper, 20.75 x 15.5 inches Jamie Wyeth, (American, b. 1946) âMeteor Shower,â 1993, Oil and essence of pearl on panel, 38 x 48 inches
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4 The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland has received a bequest of 27 paintings from the estate of Betsy Wyeth. The gift includes works by three generations of Wyeth painters, N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth, and will be on view, beginning Saturday, May 15, as part of a new exhibition entitled “Betsy’s Gift: The Works of N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth.”
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