March 27, 2006
Children's Book Caucus Discovery Awards Winners
The Children's Book Caucus received a record 150 entries for the 2006 Susan P. Bloom Discovery Evening. This year's winners, as chosen by the Caucus, are:
- Hollis Shore of Lancaster, Mass. for her young adult novel, The Curve of the World
- Phoebe Sinclair of Allston, Mass. for her young adult novel, The Truth About LIAA
- Erin Dionne of Framingham, Mass. for her young adult novel, Beauty Binge
- J.C. Phillipps of West Hartford, Conn. for her illustrations
All four will read from and present their promising work at the Children's Book Caucus Discovery Evening, which will be held on Sunday, April 30 at 6:30 PM at Simmons College in Boston. Free parking is available on site. Please come and help celebrate the winners!
March 13, 2006
Save the date: 2006 Freedom-to-Write Award Ceremony
The 2006 Vasyl Stus Freedom-to-Write Award Ceremony will be held on Thursday April 20, 2006 at 7:00 PM at the First Parish Church in Cambridge. Click here for full details.
March 10, 2006
Hemingway/PEN and Winship Awards
The 2006 winners of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the L. L. Winship Award have been announced. Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Random House) is the recipient of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and authors Jennifer Haigh (Baker Towers), Leo Damrosch (Jean Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius) and Stanley Kunitz (The Wild Braid) are the recipients of this year's L. L. Winship Award.
The ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Sunday April 2 at 3:00 PM at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.
For full details, visit the Awards page.