Our congratulations to the following writers, whose work has been selected for these anthologies: Best Stories—ZZ Packer’s "Every Tongue Shall Confess" and Sharon Pomerantz’s "Ghost Knife," both from the Fall 2002 issue edited by Margot Livesey, will be included in The Best American Short Stories 2003. The anthology is due out this October from Houghton…
We’re sad to announce that Susan Conley has moved to Maine and will no longer be serving as our Associate Poetry Editor. She had worked for Ploughshares in various capacities since 1996. We thank her for her dedicated service, and we wish her the best.
John C. Zacharis Award Ploughshares is pleased to present Maile Meloy with the thirteenth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her collection of stories, Half in Love (Scribner, 2002). 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 and poetry….
John C. Zacharis Award Ploughshares is pleased to present Doreen Gildroy with the twelfth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her collection of poems, The Little Field of Self (Univ. of Chicago, 2002). The $1,500 award — which is named after Emerson College’s former president — honors the best debut book by a…
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…
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