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Literary awards
Levis Award and First Novelist winners announced
The Department of English and the M.F.A. in Creative Writing program announced
the winner of the Ninth Annual Levis Reading Prize — “The Incentive of the Maggot” by Ron Slate, published by Houghton Mifflin. The prize commemorates the late Larry Levis and recognizes the best first or second book of poetry published in the previous calendar year.
Slate is the winner of the 2004 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry, selected by former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. He is a graduate of the Stanford University writing program and was the editor of the Chowder Review from 1973 until 1988.
Slate will present a public reading in October 2006. His work will be featured in the fall 2006 issue of Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts
published jointly by VCU and New Virginia Review Inc.
 The Fifth Annual First Novelist Award presentation will take place on the evening of Friday, Nov. 10, 2006. This year’s award goes to Karen Fisher for “A Sudden Country,” published by Random House. Fisher will participate in the First Novelist Forum, a panel discussion about the conception and successful launching of a first novel. As part of the forum, Fisher will give a public reading of her book. In addition, Fisher will have her work highlighted in the fall 2006 issue of Blackbird.
For more details about these events, contact Shirley McDaniel, director of stewardship and events management, at (804) 827-0867.
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