Miscellaneous Notes—Winter 2008–09 John C. Zacharis Award Ploughshares is pleased to present Susan Hutton with the eighteenth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her poetry collection On the Vanishing of Large Creatures (Carnegie-Mellon, 2007). The $1,500 award, which is named after Emerson College’s former president, honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer,…
Cohen Awards Each year, we honor the best poem and short story published in Ploughshares with the Cohen Awards, which are wholly sponsored by our longtime patrons Denise and Mel Cohen. Finalists are nominated by staff editors, and the winners—each of whom receives a cash prize of $600—are selected by our advisory editors. The 2008…
John C. Zacharis Award Ploughshares is pleased to present Ander Monson with the seventeenth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for his story collection Other Electricities (Sarabande, 2005). The $1,500 award, which is named after Emerson College’s former president, honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer, alternating annually between poetry and fiction….
Cohen Awards Each year, we honor the best poem and short story published in Ploughshares with the Cohen Awards, which are wholly sponsored by our longtime patrons Denise and Mel Cohen. Finalists are nominated by staff editors, and the winners—each of whom receives a cash prize of $600—are selected by our advisory editors. The 2007…
Zacharis Award Ploughshares is pleased to present Thomas Sayers Ellis with the sixteenth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for his collection of poems, The Maverick Room (Graywolf, 2005). The $1,500 award, which is named after Emerson College’s former president, honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer, alternating annually between poetry and…
Cohen Awards Each year, we honor the best short story and poem published in Ploughshares with the Cohen Awards, which are wholly sponsored by our longtime patrons Denise and Mel Cohen. Finalists are nominated by staff editors, and the winners—each of whom receives a cash prize of $600—are selected by our advisory editors. The 2006…
ZACHARIS FIRST BOOK AWARD Ploughshares is pleased to present Richard McCann with the fifteenth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for his collection of stories, Mother of Sorrows (Pantheon, 2005). The $1,500 award, which is named after Emerson College’s former president, honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer, alternating annually between fiction…
Cohen Awards Each year, we honor the best poem and short story published in Ploughshares with the Cohen Awards, which are wholly sponsored by our longtime patrons Denise and Mel Cohen. Finalists are nominated by staff editors, and the winners—each of whom receives a cash prize of $600 —are selected by our advisory editors. The…
Ploughshares is pleased to present Mark Turpin with the fourteenth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for his collection of poems, Hammer (Sarabande, 2003). The $1,500 award—which is named after Emerson College"s former president—honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer, alternating annually between poetry and fiction. This year"s judge was the poet…
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