Postscripts

John C. Zacharis Award Ploughshares is pleased to present Aleksandar Hemon with the eleventh annual John C. Zacharis Award for his collection of stories, The Question of Bruno (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000; Vintage, 2001). 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 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…

More Awards Our congratulations to the following writers, whose work has been selected for the following anthologies: Best Stories — Four stories from Ploughshares-a record number from a literary journal-will be among the twenty in The Best American Short Stories 2001: Claire Davis’s “Labors of the Heart,” from the Spring 2000 issue edited by Paul…

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…

zacharis award Ploughshares is pleased to present Dana Levin with the tenth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her collection of poems, In the Surgical Theatre (APR). 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…

Survey Results Thanks to all of the subscribers who filled out our reader survey, which was mailed last fall to 3,674 individuals in the U.S. selected from our subscription list. We happily received 797 responses — more than we had anticipated. As many people surmised from the nature of the questions, we are planning to…

Zacharis Award  Ploughshares and Emerson College are pleased to present Elizabeth Gilbert with the ninth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her collection of stories, Pilgrims (Houghton Mifflin, 1997; Mariner, 1998). The $1,500 award — which is named after the college’s former president — honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer,…

Contributor Spotlight  With her long story in this issue, Megan Staffel makes a return to our pages — indeed, to any magazine’s pages — after an absence of twenty years, and this fall, her third book, The Notebook of Lost Things, will be published by Soho Press twelve years after her last novel saw print….

Favorite Poems  Robert Pinsky has just finished two consecutive terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States, and he has ensured that he will be a difficult act to follow. Traditionally, the only specific duties of the poet laureate, who is appointed by the Library of Congress, are to give a lecture and reading…