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2023 First Pages Prize Winners Are Announced!

September 4, 2023

Congratulations to the 2023 First Pages Prize Winners! The First Pages Prize mission is to discover, recognize and encourage emerging voices through the annual creative nonfiction and fiction FIRST ... [Read More]

Hadley Franklin Wins 2023 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize!

July 10, 2023

Congratulations to Hadley Franklin, winner of the 2023 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, for her work Falling. Hadley Franklin holds an MFA in fiction from New York University’s Creative ... [Read More]

Entries for the FIRST PAGES PRIZE have now closed.

March 11, 2023

Submissions for the 2023 FIRST PAGES PRIZES in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction have now closed. There will be three winners announced in each category. Winners will receive  cash awards, ... [Read More]

Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is now closed.

March 10, 2023

Submissions for the Desperate Literature Prize short fiction prize have now closed. The deadline was April 30, 2023! Prizes include: – A week’s residency at the Civitella Ranieri ... [Read More]

Elise Thi Tran Wins 2022 First Pages Prize!

August 4, 2022

Congratulations Elise Thi Tran, winner of the 2022 First Pages Prize with Dredged From the Courtyard Pond, a collection of vignettes drawing from the oral history of a family’s escape from Vietnam and ... [Read More]

Jay Gao wins 2022 Desperate Literature Prize!

July 7, 2022

Jay Gao, a Chinese Scottish poet and fiction writer, wins the 2022 Desperate Literature Short Story Competition with The Baron and His Volcano.  Jay is the author of Imperium (2022), forthcoming ... [Read More]

FIRST PAGES PRIZE winners to be announced soon!

July 7, 2022

  The 2022 FIRST PAGES PRIZE winners will be announced in the next few weeks. Open to un-agented writers worldwide, the FIRST PAGES PRIZE invites you to enter your FIRST FIVE PAGES (1250 ... [Read More]

Care of Strangers wins the Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize… 

February 28, 2021

Ellen Michaelson’s novella, The Care of Strangers wins the Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize. This moving story about vulnerability and friendship has earned critical praise since its release. “An ... [Read More]

P.J. McKay, 2020 First Page Prize Winner

February 21, 2021

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New Zealand author P. J. McKay, won with the opening of her historical novel, The Telling Time (Polako Press, 2020). She is now represented by Highspot Literary and was shortlisted for the 2020 NZSA ... [Read More]

Angela Finn wins the 2020 Desperate Literature Short Story Prize

May 20, 2020

Winner: Angela Finn wins the 2020 Desperate Literature Short Story Prize for Excerpts from a Pale Blue Notebook with Silver Stars. Runners-up: Jelle Cauwenberghs for Bottles and Jenah Shaw for ... [Read More]

An interview with C.E. Smith

April 21, 2020

CE Smitn and Rosa Rankin Gee, winners, Paris Literary Prize Award

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, C.E. Smith studied English at Stanford and medicine at Vanderbilt. His short stories have appeared The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review,The Carolina Quarterly, and ... [Read More]

The International Fine Art Photography Award

January 21, 2020

International Fine Art Photography Award Ceremony

Part of moving forward as a photographic artist is exhibiting your work, seeing your images presented in quality publications, and having your work seen by curators, gallery owners, and collectors. ... [Read More]

2019 Miami Book Fair de Groot Prize Winners

October 21, 2019

Ellen Michaelson

Ellen Michaelson is a physician in Portland, Oregon, and holds an MFA from Pacific University. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Portland Monthly, Women in Solitude, and Literature in ... [Read More]

2019 First Pages Prize Winners

September 27, 2019

First Pages 2019 Winners

Sara Johnson Allen won the First Pages Prize 2019 with We Make Them Pay - Literary Fiction Sandra Jensen  placed 2nd with Seagull Pie - Creative Non Fiction (Memoir) and has also won the Bridport ... [Read More]

2019 Desperate Literature Short Story Prize Winners

May 20, 2019

CONGRATULATIONS to the 2019 Winners First Place: Francesca Reece – So Long Sarajevo / They Miss You So Badly We are very excited to announce that after winning the Desperate Literature Prize, ... [Read More]

2018 First Page Price Winners

November 19, 2018

David Mccullough

2018 marked the inaugural First Pages Prize, created by The de Groot Foundation to highlight emerging authors. Emerging authors are encouraged to submit the first 5 pages of a fiction or creative ... [Read More]

2018 Miami Book Fair de Groot Prize Winners

October 21, 2018

2018/2019 Miami Book Fair winners

2018 Winner Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize - Marci Vogel Website: marcivogel.com Death and Other Holidays is published by Melville House. "The prose is stunning: never overwrought for so ... [Read More]

A few of our sponsored authors from past Miami Book Fairs:

October 1, 2018

James Baldwin Panel - from the first Miami Book Fair James Baldwin attended the very first Miami Book Fair. To honor the 90th anniversary of his birth, acclaimed poets Elizabeth Alexander and Claudia ... [Read More]

2018 Winners of the Desperate Literature Short Story Prize

May 9, 2018

Congratulations to the 2018 Winners! First Place: Ed Cottrell –Frailings  Runners Up: Gordon Collins – Notes on Beynon’s Veil Caitlin Ingham – Blanch   ... [Read More]

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