WriterHouse places third in Wordplay

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough

Wordplay busts out trivia teasers | Charlottesville Daily Progress After six rounds of stumpers at Thursday evening’s Wordplay quiz at the Omni Hotel Charlottesville, some 36 teams were faced with the grand finale: What number do you get when you add the number of a spider’s legs to the highest number on Spinal Tap’s dial [...]

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Hook Short Story contest winners!

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough

Here’s how they roll at WriterHouse: We didn’t sweep the contest, but two out of three isn’t bad! In late January, WriterHouse issued a challenge to our members: submit a story to the Hook Short Story Contest and make us proud. On March 18, when the Hook announced the results, two WriterHouse members (and members [...]

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March Reading Club selection at BookBalloon

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough

News from BookBalloon: The March Reading Club Selection is Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Olive Kitteridge has been named a National Book Critics Circle finalist in fiction. Discussion begins March 4 in the Forum. Registration is free.

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I Am Scout named an ALA Best Book

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough

News from local author Charles Shields: Barboursville author Charles J. Shields’s biography for young adults, I Am Scout: the Biography of Harper Lee, has been chosen as a 2009 Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Shields is currently writing an adult biography of Kurt Vonnegut (Henry Holt & Co.). They were [...]

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2009 Hook Short Story Contest

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough

It’s that time of year again! The Hook Short Story contest is underway. John Grisham will be judging again this year. Deadline for entries is February 3, 2009 — that’s not far off! The grand-prize winner receives $700, second place $200, and third place, $100. Next comes the fame. The grand prize-winning story will be [...]

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The 2009 Tournament of Books

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough

Huzzah! It’s Tournament of Books time again! In the absence of too much alcohol, it never would have occurred to us that we should take 16 of the most celebrated and highly touted novels of the year, seed them in a March Madness-type bracket, conscript them into a “Batttle Royale of Literary Excellence,” and, in [...]

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New news from WriterHouse

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Some news and upcoming events from the WriterHouse member newsletter. If you join WH, you’ll get this kind of cool info every week: News »Congratulations to our NaNoWriMo Winning Members! Several of our members took the challenge and wrote 50,000 word novels between November 1 and November 30, at great personal sacrifice, and additional waistline [...]

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UVa Art Museum – Writer’s Eye Competition Open

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Writer’s Eye 2008 The Writer’s Eye competition invites youth in grades 3–12, University students, and adults to submit original prose and poetry compositions inspired by particular works on view in the Museum. This year a major focus of the program will be the special exhibition El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios. Area teachers and writers judge all [...]

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2008 Governor’s Arts Awards announced

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

The 2008 Governor’s Arts Awards were announced last week. I’d like to take special note of two literature-related winners: Ralph Cohen and Jim Warren of Staunton. They will receive an award for their work with the American Shakespeare Center which they founded in 1988. They are also the founders of the only graduate program in [...]

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Hardscrabble snags poetry prize

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

From VQR: McFadden’s Hardscrabble Wins Poetry Award By Kevin Morrissey June 30th, 2008 Kevin McFadden’s Hardscrabble, one of the inaugural titles in the VQR Poetry Series, published by the University of Georgia Press, has just been awarded 2008 Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry. The award, which recognizes work by emerging poets [...]

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What can book prizes tell us?

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Max at The Millions has come up with a methodology for using book awards to rank the best books since 1995. Here are the current top ten: 11, 2003, The Known World by Edward P. Jones – C, I, N, P 9, 2001, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen – C, I, N, P 8, 1997, [...]

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Book Fest opening ceremony podcast

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Let the podcasts roll! Charlottesville Podcasting Network has posted the audio from yesterday’s Festival of the Book Opening Ceremony. Speakers include Robert Vaughan, President of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Ken Boyd and Dave Norris, who read proclamations from the county and city, and the young winners of the Letters about Literature contest. Hawes [...]

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Yay, Christy and Sally!

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

From The Hook: In a freakish convergence of fate and fiction, previous contest winner and published novelist Sally Honenberger, left, took second AND third place. Less-published writer Christy Strick, former catering manager at Farmington, takes home the grand prize of $700. Her story, “Moving,” according to [judge John] Grisham is “Not the typical way to [...]

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Totally overwhelmed with joy and sparkles and fireworks

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

I won an Oscar pool! A certain J. S. at the Indiana University-Bloomington Office of the Registrar runs an annual Oscar pool, and this year, I won with 7 out 8 correct! Here were my picks: Best Actor: George Clooney for “Michael Clayton” Daniel Day-Lewis for “There Will Be Blood” Johnny Depp for “Sweeney Todd” [...]

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Your chance to be a Booker judge

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

RU sent us this announcement: The Man Booker Prize for Fiction announced today (Thursday 21 February) a one-off award – The Best of the Booker – to celebrate the prestigious literary prize’s 40th anniversary. The Best of the Booker will honour the best overall novel to have won the prize since it was first awarded [...]

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