David Cohen Prize for Literature. £40,000. Winner: Poet and Nobel Laureate Séamus Heaney.

2009 Man Booker International Prize Judges’ List:

Peter Carey (Australia)
Evan S. Connell (USA)
Mahasweta Devi (India)
E.L. Doctorow (USA)
James Kelman (UK)
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Arnošt Lustig (Czechoslovakia)
Alice Munro (Canada)
V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad/India)
Joyce Carol Oates (USA)
Antonio Tabucchi (Italy)
Ngugi Wa Thiong’O (Kenya)
Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia)
Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia)

The judging panel for the Man Booker International Prize 2009 is: Jane Smiley, writer; Amit Chaudhuri, writer, academic and musician; and writer, film script writer and essayist, Andrey Kurkov.

The Missouri Review’s 2008 Editors’ Prize Contest:

Roy Kesey, Fiction, “Double Fish.”
Finalists: Jennifer Arnspiger, “Foie Gras”, Mike Murray, “The Underwater Man,” Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner, and “Jack and His Disappearing Act.”

Frannie Lindsay, Poetry.
Finalists: Matthew Fluharty, Jennifer Grotz, and Christina Hutchins.

Deborah Thompson, Nonfiction, “What’s the Matter with Houdini.”
Finalists: Gail Kezer Lowe, “Around the Rosy,” David MacLean, “The Answer to the Riddle is Me,” and Robert Rebein, “The Sisyphus of the Plains.”

Glimmer Train December Fiction Open Competition. Winners:

First place: Cary Groner, $2000 for “Elaborate Preparations for Departure.”  Publication in the Summer 2010 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Second place: Aaron Carmichael, $1,000 for “Driver Yu’s Penance.” Publication in upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Third place: Aaron Cutler, $600 for “15 Shots.”

2009 Perugia Press Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry by a Woman. $1,000 and publication by Perugia Press. Winner: Jennifer K. Sweeney for How To Live on Bread and Music.

2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award in Poetry. Winner: Nancy K. Pearson for Two Minues of Light (Perugia Press, 2008).

2009 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. $1,500 and publication by BOA Editioins.  Winner: Keetje Kuipers for Beautiful in the Mouth. Judge: Thomas Lux.