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]
Competitions
Angela Finn wins the 2020 Desperate Literature Short Story Prize
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
Congratulations to the 2018 Winners! First Place: Ed Cottrell –Frailings Runners Up: Gordon Collins – Notes on Beynon’s Veil Caitlin Ingham – Blanch ... [Read More]