: awards :
National Magazine Award Finalist Redux
For the second year running, the Antioch Review has been named a finalist for the Annual National Magazine Award. The Review is the smallest magazine selected in any award category. This year's nomination is in the "fiction" category for the story "The Coat" by German writer Uwe Timm, translated by Robert C. Conard, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dayton. The story was published in the Summer 2009 issue of the Review.
The Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Beth Bachmann has been named the 2010 winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The award is given to honor a poet's first book. Bachmann's Temper was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2009. Her poem "Hunger" appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of the Antioch Review.
May Swenson Poetry Award
Zorba's Daughter by Elisabeth Murawski has been awarded the May Swenson Prize for poetry and will be published in summer 2010 by the Utah State University Press. The book includes "Frightened by Italy" which first appeared in the Fall 2005 Antioch Review.
Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction
In Envy County by Joan Frank has been named the winner of the 2010 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction. The book includes a story "Betting on Men," which first appeared in the Fall 2005 Antioch Review, and has been published by the University of Notre Dames Press.
Whiting Writers' Award
Vu Tran is among the ten writers to be awarded the Whiting Writers' Award this year. His story "Solomon's Dream" appeared in the Fall 1998 Antioch Review.
National Magazine Award Finalist
The Antioch Review is proud to announce that it has been named a finalist in the essay category for the 44th Annual National Magazine Award. This award is the first time the Review has won this award. The winning essay is “Vickie’s Pour House: A Soldier’s Peace” by Maureen McCoy.
American Academy of Arts and Letters Honors
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced its 2009 Literature Award Winners. Mark Strand, a member of our National Advisory Board, has been awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry to honor an entire body of work. Another board member, T. Coraghessan Boyle, is a newly elected member of the Academy.
Iowa Short Fiction Award
Kathryn Ma’s book, All That Work and Still No Boys, has been selected the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. The book, which will be published by the University of Iowa Press in September 2009, includes the story “What I Know Now,” which originally appeared in the Winter 2003 Antioch Review.
Melissa Delbridge Receives New Writers Award
Melissa Delbridge’s memoir Family Bible has won the University of Iowa Press Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and has been published by the University of Iowa Press. It includes “Gun and Bait,” first published as “West Green and River Bend, Gun and Bait,” in the Fall 2006 special memoir issue of the Antioch Review.
Pushcart Prize
Puschcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses 2009 includes a story by Edith Pearlman. “Elder Jinks” was first published in the Fall 2007 Antioch Review.
Best American Poetry
Selected for the Best American Poetry 2009 edited by David Wagoner were "Freud" by James Cummins and "The Way of All the Earth" by K. A. Hays. They appeared, respectively, in the Summer 2008 and Winter 2008 Antioch Review.
Flannery O’Connor Award
Andrew Porter’s book The Theory of Light and Matter has been selected the winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction 2008. It includes two stories, “Coyotes” and “Connecticut” first published, respectively, in the Winter 2003 and Winter 2005 Antioch Review.
Best American Short Stories
Mark Wisniewski’s story “Straightaway” has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2008. The story was first published in the Spring 2007 Antioch Review.
Best American Mystery Stories
Peter LaSalle’s story “Tunis and Time” and Nathan Oates’s story “The Empty House” have been selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008. Both stories were first published in the Antioch Review, LaSalle’s in Winter 2007 and Oates’s in Fall 2007.
Best of the West
Benjamin Percy’s story “In the Rough” has been selected for inclusion in The Best of the West, volume 6. The story was first published in the Summer 2007 Antioch Review.
Flannery O’Connor Award
Peter LaSalle’s book Tell Borges If You See Him was selected the winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction 2007. It includes two stories, “Nocture” and “Preseason: The Texas Football Dead” first published, respectively, in the Summer 2002 and Fall 2005 Antioch Review.
John Simmons Short Fiction Award
Lee Montgomery’s book Whose World Is It? was selected the winner of the 2007 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. It includes “We the Girly Girls from Massachusetts” first published in the Summer 2007 Antioch Review.
Pushcart Prize
Puschcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses includes a story by Risteard O’Keitinn. “Dogged” was first published in the Summer 2005 Antioch Review.
National Book Award
Lily Tuck has been awarded the 2004 National Book Award in fiction for her book The News From Paraguay. Her stories “Limbo,” “Gold Leaf,” and “Verdi” appeared in the Antioch Review between 1993 and 1997.
Pushcart Prize
Puschcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses will include work by Nicholas Montemarano and a translation of Aleksandr Kushner’s story by Mark Halperin & Dinara Georgeoliani. Both stories were first published in the Winter 2001 Antioch Review.
New Stories from the South
Included in New Stories from the South 2005 edited by Shannon Ravenel was Ethan Hauser’s “The Charm of the Highway Median” which was published in the Fall 2004 Antioch Review.
Best American Poetry
Selected for the Best American Poetry 2002 edited by Robert Creeley was “The Gold Star” by Albert Goldbarth.
Best American Short Stories
Selected for Best American Short Stories 2001, guest edited by Barbara Kingsolver, was “The Apple Tree” by Trevanian which we published in the Spring 2000 Antioch Review.
New Stories from the South
Included in New Stories from the South 2001 edited by Shannon Ravenel was Edith Pearlman’s “Skin Deep” which was published in the Fall 2000 Antioch Review.
The Antioch Review 2006 Award for Distinguished Prose
The Antioch Review is pleased to announce Bruce Jay Friedman as the recipient of its 2006 Award for Distinguished Prose. The award is made possible through the gift of the Lloyd family of Atlanta, Georgia in memory of Lynda Lloyd, an Antioch College alum, who died in 1998.
