Kirtland Snyder has been awarded the the Stanley Kunitz Award
for Excellence in Poetry for his poem
Funny How Much Sorrow Looks Like Anger

 

Tom Sheehan has been awarded the Georges Simenon Award
for Excellence in Fiction for his story The Man Who Hid Music

 

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New Works Review's Pushcart Nominations for Poetry

Alicia Ostriker for her Poem Insomnia

Tom Sheehan for his story The Man Who Hid Music

Irving A. Greenfield for his story The Game of Bling

 

Michael Corrigan for his story Free Fall

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About the Awards

The Stanley Kunitz Award is an annual award made by New Works Review. It is in honor of the American poet, editor, essayist, translator, whose career spanned nearly 80 years. Kunitz became 10th poet laureate at the age of 95, succeeding Robert Pinsky. Kunitz's first collection of verse appeared in 1930. He wrote in conversational tone of such complex themes as the work of a poet, loss, time, and the chaos of inner life. Kunitz's self-scrutinies in the realm of the soul are discerning and touching but calmly restrained. Kunitz’s poetry has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

 

The Georges Simenon Award is an annual award made by New Works Review. It is in honor of the Belgian-born French novelist, one of the most skilled and literate writers of detective fiction. Simenon is best known as the creator of Paris police detective Inspector Maigret. He turned out 84 Maigret mysteries and 136 other novels, but he never wrote the 'big' novel that many critics demanded of him. Over 500 million copies of Simenon's books have been printed and translated into 50 languages.

 

The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American literay prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot published on the Internet, in magazines, and in small presses. Publishers are invited annually to nominate work they've published. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.