Oct 24th 730pm - Guild Complex presents its final recognition event -- readings by finalists in Short Fiction and Short Non-fiction with each winner receiving $250 prize . And, in keeping with the tradition of Chopin Salons, evening also includes short concert of the works of F. Chopin.
Open submissions until Sep 28th. More information contest@guildcomplex.org
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10/24/12 - 10/24/12
730p
The Guild Literary Complex is proud to announce its Annual Prose Awards acknowledging emerging and established writers via a judged competition and recognition event. A cash prize of $250 in each category (short fiction and non-fiction) is awarded. This year’s guest judges will be Amina Gautier (fiction) and David Lazar (non-fiction).
The evening also a short concert of the works of F. Chopin.
About the Judges:
Amina Gautier (fiction judge) Gautier follows in the footsteps of the late nineteenth century African American intellectual (Chesnutt, DuBois, Harper, and Hopkins) who merged both critical and creative talents. Her background as a scholar of 19th Century American literature and, more generally, African American literature combines with her training as a fiction writer such that she is both a critic and a creative writer, fully engaged in the analysis and creation of literature. More than sixty of her short stories have been published, appearing in Antioch Review, Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, North American Review, Pleiades, and Southern Review among others in addition to being anthologized in Best African American Fiction, Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years, New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best, 2008, The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Writers on Forerunners in Fiction, and Voices. Her fiction has been honored with the William Richey Prize, the Jack Dyer Award, the Danahy Fiction Award, the Schlafly Microfiction Award, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Award. Her short story collection At-Risk won the Flannery O’Connor Award and is published by University of Georgia Press.
David Lazar (non-fiction judge) Lazar’s books include The Body of Brooklyn and Truth in Nonfiction (both Iowa), Powder Town (Pecan Grove); Michael Powell: Interviews and Conversations with M.F.K. Fisher (both Mississippi). Forthcoming is Essaying the Essay from Welcome Table Press. His essays and prose poems have appeared widely in anthologies such as Understanding the Essay, An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Sentence), and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, and magazines such as Gulf Coast, Black Clock, Sentence, Denver Quarterly, Best of the Prose Poem, Southwest Review, etc. and five of his essays have been “Notable Essays of the Year” according to Best American Essays. He created the undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in Nonfiction writing at Ohio University, and directed the creation of the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika, now in its tenth year.
