News from Ockham Book Awards
Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book
Bug Week – the first person to take out the category for a collection of short stories in more than a decade.
Beautrais is well-known as a poet, but this is her first book of fiction, published by Victoria University Press. She received the prize ahead of acclaimed novelists Catherine Chidgey and Pip Adam, both previous winners, and Brannavan Gnanalingam, shortlisted for the fiction prize in 2018.
The Fiction category’s convenor of judges, Kiran Dass, says
‘Knockout’ short story collection wins country’s richest writing prize Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Bug Week – the first person .
American History Comes to Life at the Autrey Museum
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THE AUTRY MUSEUM of the American West located in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park offers thought provoking online and onsite resources which brings history to life. Courtesy photos provided by Autry Museum of the American West.
By Laurie Hanson • May 11, 2021
The Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park brings the past to life with the vision of making history relevant in today’s tumultuous times.
The whole idea of the museum being alive among people is the aspiration and accomplishment that President and CEO W. Richard West, Jr., has held throughout his nearly 10-year tenure. Though retiring at the end of June, he still clearly sees this as central to the museum’s future.
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The citywide scavenger hunt is back, Historic Denver announced this week, with prizes to boot. Pictured: the train terminus at Lower
Downtown’s Union Station. See below for details. (Provided by Historic Denver)
NEA’s $52 million includes Colorado
The National Endowment for the Arts this month announced more than $52 million in federal funding as part of the first American Rescue Plan awards. Colorado and regional organizations getting funds included Western States Art Federation and Colorado Creative Industries, which will dole out the money statewide.
“These funds are designed to support the arts sector as it recovers from the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,” NEA officials wrote in a press statement. “Guidelines and application materials for a second phase of American Rescue Plan funding … are expected to be available in June 2021 pending review.”