PEN’s 2009 Beyond Margins Award Winners. $1,000. Winners: Uwem Akpan for Say You’re One of Them (Little, Brown and Company), Juan Felipe Herrera for Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press), and Lily Hoang for Changing (Fairy Tale Review Press).

2009 McArthur Fellows. $500,000 each over the next five years. Winners: Edwidge Danticat, Novelist; Deborah Eisenberg, Short Story Writer; Heather McHugh, Poet.

2010 New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Fellowships. $5,000. Winners: Fiction writer Nancy Clark and poet Katie Umans.

2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards. $25,000. Winners:

Krista Bremer (nonfiction)
Vievee Francis (poetry)
Janice N. Harrington (poetry)
Lori Ostlund (fiction)
Helen Phillips (fiction)
Heidy Steidlmayer (poetry)

Glimmer Train July Very Short Fiction Award. Winners:

First place: J.P. Lacrampe. $1,200 for “Farmers’ Market.” and publication in the Winter 2011 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.
Second place: Stephanie Reents. $500 for “The Indefinite Article Is a Different Story.”   
Third place: James Scoles. $300 for “To Cook an Egg Gently.”

Glimmer Train August Short Story Award for New Writers. Winners:

First place: Evan Christopher Burton. $1,200 for “Exposure” and publication in the Winter 2011 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.
Second place: David Rothman. $500 for “Guided by Voices” and publication in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, raising his prize to $700.
Third place:  Scott Tucker. $300 for “Touring.”

New Letters Magazine’s Annual Writing Competition. $1,500 and publication in the Winter 2010 issue of the magazine. Winners:

The Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Prize: Siobhán Fallon for “Inside the Break.” The Dorothy Churchill Cappon Essay Prize: Rose Bunch for “Norman Mailer is Coming to Dinner.”
The New Letters Poetry Prize: Heather Bell for “Aunt Marjorie” and other selected poems.
Judges: Benjamin Percy (fiction), Robin Hemley (essay), and Kim Addonizio (poetry).

24th annual Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.  $30,000 each for five awardees. Finalists:

Matt Ackley for “Victoria Falls”
Vineet Dewan and Angus Fletcher for “Sand Dogs”
John Griffin for “Dream before Waking”
Hiram Martinez for “Ansiedad”
Marleine Pacilio for “Born Elizabeth Jane”
Adriana Brad Schanen for “Gifted”
Neil Swaab for “Eddie Fantastic!”
Nidhi Anna Verghese for “Jallianwala Bagh”
Dan Lee West for “Abroad”
Jeff Williams for “Pure”

2009 Florida Review Editors’ Awards. Publication. Winners:

Fiction Prize: Fred Setterberg for “Catechism”
Finalist: Steven Gehrke for “The Terraformation of Mars”
Nonfiction Prize: Deborah Thompson for “Buying Time”
Finalist: Christine Gelineau for “Cops”
Poetry Prize: Emily Van Kley for “Before Ghosts,” “Vital Signs,” and “Last of the Month”
Finalist: Susan Rich for “Facing 50 with a Line by Robert Hayden” and “For My Student, Who Would Prefer to Remain Anonymous”