Reflections on Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, (Auto)Biography, Life-Writing, and the Essay
05 Feb 2013 at 09:31
Julija Šukys
Calls for Submissions, Contests and Prizes, Creative Nonfiction, Essays, Personal Essays, Uncategorized, Writing
First Prize: $1,000 and publication (Winter 2014) Runner-up (if applicable) will be considered for publication Judge: Scott Russell Sanders Deadline: All submissions must be entered by March 15, 2013 Fourth Genre will seek the best creative nonfiction essay for its ninth annual Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize. Authors of previously unpublished manuscripts are encouraged to enter. All submissions [...]
07 Dec 2012 at 19:56
Julija Šukys
Canada, CanLit, Contests and Prizes, Creative Nonfiction, Eastern Europe, Epistolophilia, Letters, Libraries, Ona Šimaitė, Vilna Ghetto, Vilnius, Writing
As I posted on Facebook, I will admit that my hands shook for a while after learning the news that my book, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė has been long-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in Literary Non-Fiction. It’s an enormous honour. THE CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE commemorates Charles Taylor’s pursuit of excellence in [...]
15 Oct 2012 at 11:01
Julija Šukys
Canada, CanLit, Contests and Prizes, Creative Nonfiction, Epistolophilia, Events, Ona Šimaitė, Quebec, Uncategorized
I keep wanting to sit down and write a thoughtful post for the blog, and then something happens that I realize I should share: a reading, a review, and so on. Mind you, I’m not complaining. I’m thrilled. So here’s this week’s announcement: my book has been shortlisted for a literary prize. The shortlist for [...]
13 Apr 2012 at 07:19
Julija Šukys
Academia, Contests and Prizes, Funding, Humanities, Research, Residencies and Fellowships, Uncategorized, Writing
Ah, the Guggenheims… Other than the MacArthur “genius” grants (which you can’t apply for), these are the most coveted awards among artists, writers, and researchers. Congratulations to this year’s winners, and especially to Ruth Franklin of The New Republic, whose pieces I’ve been reading with great interest ever since we got connected on Facebook. You [...]
14 Mar 2012 at 08:23
Julija Šukys
Autobiography, Brain Injury, CNF Conversations, Contests and Prizes, Creative Nonfiction, Life-writing, Memory, Mental Illness, Mira Bartók, Mothering, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing
Congratulations to Mira Bartók on winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography for The Memory Palace. The Circle says The Memory Palace “rose to the formal challenge of blending her mother’s journals, reflections on her mother’s mental illness and subsequent homelessness, and thoughts on her own recovery from a head injury to create [...]
05 Feb 2012 at 06:37
Julija Šukys
Academia, Calls for Submissions, Contests and Prizes, Creative Nonfiction, Eastern Europe, Humanities, Jerusalem, Research, Uncategorized
Established in 2011, this prize in memory of Abraham Meir Schwartzbaum, Holocaust Survivor, and his Family who was murdered in the Holocaust is awarded annually in recognition of high scholarly research and writing on the Holocaust. Last year’s prize was awarded to: Prof. Christopher R. Browning, for his book Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor [...]
29 Dec 2011 at 09:31
Julija Šukys
Biography, Contests and Prizes, Countdown to Publication, Editing, Epistolophilia, Funding, Journeys, Libraries, Poetry, Rejection, Research, Residencies and Fellowships, SheWrites, Uncategorized, Writing, Yiddish
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I couldn’t have written Epistolophilia without writers’ grants and research fellowships. A number of different arts agencies and institutions — these are listed in the Acknowledgements to my book — helped me pay for plane tickets, get paper for printing, buy time for writing, and (perhaps [...]
15 Dec 2011 at 07:52
Julija Šukys
Academia, Alternate Economies, Archives, Calls for Submissions, CNF Conversations, Contests and Prizes, Countdown to Publication, Creative Nonfiction, Essays, Friendship, Funding, Marketing, Publicity, Publishing, SheWrites, Uncategorized, Writing
I started my blog almost two years ago after attending a writers’ workshop on publishing in the digital age. There wasn’t much talk of e-books or self-publishing from the presenters. Instead, they hammered a single message into us all day: you, as writers, need an electronic presence . . . preferably a blog. It’s how you control [...]
06 Dec 2011 at 08:41
Julija Šukys
Canada, Contests and Prizes, Countdown to Publication, Creative Nonfiction, Eastern Europe, Epistolophilia, Events, Friendship, SheWrites, Uncategorized
My new book, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė (cover seen above) will appear in four months. A few nights ago, I had a great conversation with my press’s publicist. Cara told me how she sat down on the couch to leaf through my book and was so drawn in that she ended up [...]
22 Nov 2011 at 04:49
Julija Šukys
Calls for Submissions, Contests and Prizes, Creative Nonfiction, Essays, Memoir, Personal Essays, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing
NARRATIVE : A Nonprofit Organization Dedicated to Storytelling in the Digital Age Contest Deadline: November 30. NARRATIVE IS LOOKING FOR short stories, short shorts, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, one-act plays, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Our one criterion is excellence. Prior winners and [...]
