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 these anthologies: Best Stories — Alice Mattison’s “In Case We’re Separated,” from the Fall 2001 issue edited by Donald Hall, will be included in The Best American Short Stories 2002. The anthology is due out this October from Houghton Mifflin, with…
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,…
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