Graduate and Undergraduate Students Win Creative Writing Recognition
July 13, 2010
The winners of the 2010 Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, and the Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize have been announced.
National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Mary Jo Bang judged the Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize and selected Noah Siela as this year's winner. Kim Calder and Alexander Marhefka received Honorable Mentions.
The 2010 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize was adjudicated by O. Henry Prize-winner Anthony Doerr. Doerr named Tom Earles this year's winner with Honorable Mentions going to Dory Hoffman and Heather Zadig.
Both Noah Siela and Tom Earles will receive $100, and all the honorees will read in the Writers Here & Now Reading on Wednesday, May 5, at 7:00PM in the Ulrich Recital Hall in Tawes. The reading is free and open to the public.
At the undergraduate level, the Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House announced the winners of the 2010 Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize, a writing contest open to all University of Maryland, College Park undergraduate students.
Judges Terese Svoboda and Fady Joudah pored 400 entries and named as the winners Sala Levin, for her story “In the House on Moose Pond,” and Joel Sephy Gleiser, for his poem “At Town Hall.”
The Jiménez-Porter Literary Prizewinners’ reading will be at Litfest on April 28, 7:00PM in St. Mary’s Hall.