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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.
Maine Literary Awards names winners, honors Carolyn Chute
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Amazon Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month May 14, 2021
Throughout the month of May, Amazon is featuring curated collections of movies, series, music, books, and audiobooks from AAPI creators, actors, artists, producers, writers, and filmmakers to honor the Asian American and Pacific Islander Community.
Throughout the month of May, Prime Video is featuring a dedicated landing page with a curated selection of titles to honor the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. The collection features AAPI actors, producers, writers, and filmmakers, and includes Amazon Originals such as
Jimmy O Yang: Good Deal and Academy Award winner
Sound of Metal, licensed titles such as
Great books for kids and adults to celebrate Asian Heritage Month
May is designated as Asian Heritage Month in Canada and the Calgary Public Library and Calgary Reads have come up with some great related books for children, teens and adults.
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Posted: May 03, 2021 5:04 PM MT | Last Updated: May 3 Minor feelings occur when American optimism is enforced upon you, which contradicts your own racialized reality, thereby creating a static of cognitive dissonance, Korean American author Cathy Park Hong says in her book Minor Feelings. (@penguinrandom/Twitter)
May is designated as Asian Heritage Month in Canada and the Calgary Public Library and Calgary Reads have come up with some great related books for children, teens and adults.