‘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”
Brunswick teacher and writer wins Maine Chapbook Series 2020
Brandon Dudley s book Hazards of Nature: Stories was selected out of nearly 60 submissions and will be published in 2021.
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Brandon Dudley, of Brunswick, won the Maine Chapbook Series put on by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.
Courtesy / Rebecca Dudley
BRUNSWICK A local teacher has been named the winner of the Maine Chapbook Series, an annual competition put from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance that highlights emerging Maine writers and poets.
The organization awarded Brandon Dudley $500 and will publish and promote his submission “Hazards of Nature: Stories.”
Dudley, a former journalist for a newspaper in the Baltimore area, is a high school English teacher in Brunswick, where he lives with his wife and two sons.