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Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi, from Toronto, Ontario. This year’s jury consists of three authors: Souvankham Thammavongsa, whose debut short story collection, Craig Davidson, whose book Lee Maracle, whose books include I Am Woman, Ravensong. The winner, who will be revealed on Thursday (April 29), will receive a cash prize of $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The four other finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts. All five short stories have been published at the CBC Books website.More You can follow Craig Takeuchi on Twitter at @cinecraig or on Facebook. ....
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From these finalists for the PEN America Literary Awards, winners will be announced on April 8 and receive a total of more than US$380,000. Dining tents in New York City’s Bryant Park, February 4. Image – iStockphoto: Massimo Giachetti From 1,850 Submissions, 55 Finalists A total of 55 titles in 11 categories have been named today (February 10) as finalists in the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards. They now are in contention for an aggregate purse of more than US$380,000. PEN America, of course, is the US affiliate chapter of PEN International. An important and notably serious program among world publishing’s myriad awards programs each year, this series is also at times confusing because its sponsor-named categories vary widely in their nature and prize money. Some awards are funded for biennial presentation, rather than yearly. ....
This morning, PEN America released the 2021 Literary Awards Finalists. More than forty-five imprints and presses are featured on the list, with half of the titles coming from university and indie presses. Twenty books are from writers making their literary debuts, and half the titles among the open-genre awards are poetry collections. Chosen by a cohort of judges representing a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds, identities, and aesthetic lineages, these fifty-five Finalist books represent a humbling selection of the year’s finest examples of literary excellence. The stories on the Finalists lists are about parents, grandparents, and grandchildren, about siblings and their rivalries. These writers share the lives of people who are nonbinary and people who are transgender; people of all ages with changing bodies; immigrants and citizens and people seeking refuge; a basketball legend; a young woman who plucks factory chickens smooth; a tugboat driver; and Phillis Whea ....