Lantern Review previews 2014 books by Cathy Linh Che, Oliver de la Paz, Tarfia Faizullah, Sally Wen Mao, Eugenia Leigh, W. Todd Kaneko, and R.A. Villanueva.

Congrats, dear fellows!

From Lantern Review editor Iris A. Law: 

"Today, just in time for the start of the year of the lunar new year, we’re finishing off our two-part roundup of books that we’re looking forward to in 2014.  Last week’s post (part 1) focused on recently published titles, while today’s (part 2) focuses on forthcoming books that are due out later this year.

Note: the books discussed below are divided by category according to whether they are currently available for pre-order, or whether specific details of their release have, as of this posting, yet to be announced. For each category, books are listed alphabetically by author."

Available for Pre-order

Split by Cathy Linh Che (forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2014)

Turn by Wendy Chin-Tanner (forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press in March 2014)

Post Subject by Oliver de la Paz (forthcoming from U of Akron Press in August 2014)

Seam by Tarfia Faizullah (forthcoming from SIU Press in March 2014)

Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao (forthcoming from Alice James Books in May 2014)

Forthcoming (Specific Details to Come)

Picture Dictionary by Kristen Eliason (forthcoming from Flaming Giblet in 2014)

Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows by Eugenia Leigh (forthcoming from Four Way Books in fall 2014)

The Dead Wrestler Elegies by W. Todd Kaneko (forthcoming from Curbside Splendor in 2014)

Reliquaria by R. A. Villanueva (forthcoming from U of Nebraska Press in fall 2014)

For the full post, click on the link below:

http://www.lanternreview.com/blog/2014/01/31/editors-corner-books-were-looking-forward-to-in-2014-part-2/

R.A. Villanueva wins the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in poetry for his manuscript Reliquaria

Congrats, dear Ron! 

The winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in poetry is R.A. Villanueva for his manuscript Reliquaria. His writing has appeared in AGNI, Gulf Coast, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Bellevue Literary Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, his honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry, fellowships from Kundiman and The Asian American Literary Review, and scholarships from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He is currently a Language Lecturer at New York University and lives in Brooklyn. 

The winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in fiction is Amina Gautier for her manuscript Now We Will Be Happy. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of the short story collection At-Risk (U of Georgia P), which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. More than seventy-five of her stories have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Antioch Review, Callaloo, Chattahoochee Review, Crazyhorse, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, and Southern Review, among others. Her work has received scholarships and fellowships from the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Callaloo Writer’s Conference, Hurston/Wright Foundation, Sewanee Writer’s Conference, and others, as well as artist grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Stanford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Both will receive a $3,000 prize and publication by the University of Nebraska Press. Their books will be available in September 2014. 

http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=book-prize/current-winners