It’s that time of year again – the time of year when various orginizations and institutions take the cue from the NCAA basketball tournament to create their own contest in which various products are placed into brackets so that, via head to head competition, the best of the best can be determined. Usually this sort of thing is reserved for beer commercials, and it’s hard for anyone to pay that much attention to it, but, as they proved last year, The Morning News has taken the March Madness ripoff to a new level with its Tournament of Books. It was good fun for basketball fans and book fans alike last year and it promises to be good fun this time around to. To play along, meet the judges and download your bracket (pdf). Anyone want to start a pool?
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Whiting Foundation Names Creative Nonfiction Grantees
The nine recipients of the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, now in its sixth year, will receive $40,000 to support a nonfiction project.
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Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes Name 2021 Winners
Three print magazines and two digital publications—including Bellevue Literary Review and Full Stop—were named winners of the fourth annual Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes, taking home a combined total of $144,000 in funding.
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National Book Awards Names 2019 Winners
The big prize for fiction went to Trust Exercise by Susan Choi.
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Hallie Rubenhold Wins 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize
The Baillie Gifford Prize, which celebrates the best in nonfiction, was awarded to The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper.
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