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James Salter Wins the 2010 Rea Award

James Salter Wins the 2010 Rea Award…

Rea Award for the Short Story is a lifetime-achievement prize bestowed annually on “a living American or Canadian writer whose published work has made a significant contribution in the discipline of the short story as an art form.”

This year ’s jurors praised Salter as “the most stylish and grave and exact of writers.”

via Paris Review

Winner of the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton (author of “It was a dark and stormy night…”;award for bad fiction) contest

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh professor Sue Fondrie won this year’s bad fiction award.

Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.

Winner of the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton contest via Boing Boing.