Dr Bruce Meyer, a significant Canadian poet and writer, will be the final judge for this year's Beverly Prize For International Writing - the impressive super shortlist of 18 international poets and writers is announced below.
Any original unpublished manuscript, in English, by anyone living anywhere in the world, writing in any genre or on any topic, prose, non-fiction or poetry (even drama) is eligible, making it arguably the world's most eclectic "broad church" literary scouting prize. Last year's debut winner was Sohini Basak (her book is being launched in Bloomsbury July 5th, 2018).
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| SOHINI BASAK, WINNER OF THE BEVERLY PRIZE FOR INTERNATIONAL WRITING 2017 |
The rules of the prize stipulate that any author chosen for the shortlist agrees to accept publication with Eyewear if judged to be the final winner; and may not be entered into other competitions at this final stage of adjudication.
Bruce Meyer is author of more than 60 books of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, literary journalism, and portraiture. He was winner of the Gwendolyn MacEwen Prize for Poetry in 2015 and 2016 for best poem, and received the IP Medal for best book of poems published in North American for the sonnet collection, The Seasons.
His other works include the national bestsellers The Golden Thread (2000) and Portraits of Canadian Writers (2016). He was the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie. He lives in Barrie, Ontario, and teaches at Georgian College and at Victoria College in the University of Toronto.
The winner will be announced by April 15th or sooner, and will be selected solely by the Final Judge, on the basis of literary merit - this is a publishing prize meant to select a truly extraordinary work that will make a wonderful book.
Hundreds of submissions were received and the three-person judging panel of Dr Todd Swift, Alexandra Payne and Rosanna Hildyard, managed to discover these remarkable works and talents. The winner will receive publication in 2019 with Eyewear Publishing, and have their book launched in London, UK, as well as a £500 advance.
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| BRUCE MEYER |
Anatoly Kudryavitsky is a Moscow-born Irish poet
and novelist of Polish/Irish descent, the grandson of an Irishman who ended up
in Stalin’s Gulag. A holder of a PhD from Moscow Medical
Academy, he is the former writer-in-residence for the State
Literary Museum of Russia. Having emigrated in 1999, he has since been living in Dublin, Ireland. He is a bilingual author writing in
English and Russian, and has published three novels. Kudryavisky edited the anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in
English translation entitled A Night in
the Nabokov Hotel (Dedalus, 2006), the anthology of contemporary German-language
poetry titled Coloured Handprints
(Dedalus, 2015), and the anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry in English translation, The Frontier, (Glagoslav Publications, London, UK,
2017.) In 2003, he won the Maria
Edgeworth Poetry Prize (Ireland),
and in 2010 was the recipient of the David Burliuk Award (Russia) for
lifelong commitment to experimental poetry. He is nominated for Sky Sailing - Poetry.
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| ANATOLY KUDRYAVITSKY |
Alan Weadick
(Pronounced Weddick) has been publishing poems widely, in print and online, for
a number of years, with work most recently in The Irish Times New Irish
Writing, Southword, The Honest Ulsterman and Cyphers. He has been shortlisted
for competitions including the Strokestown Poetry Festival, Listowel Writer's
Week and Red Line Book Festival competitions, Highly Commended in the
2017 iyeats/Hawks Well poetry competition and longlisted for the National
Poetry Compettion (UK, 2017). He has also been nominated for a Hennessy
Literary Award (Emerging Poetry, 2016) and was a reader at Poetry Ireland's
"Introductions" series in the Irish Writer's Centre. He also writes
prose fiction and has had short several stories broadcast on RTE Radio 1 (Irish
National Broadcaster) and published in The Honest Ulsterman. He lives in Dublin
with his wife and two children. He is nominated for Hunger's Mother - Poetry.
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| ALAN WEADICK |
Andrew R.
Touhy, a recipient of the San Francisco Browning Society’s Dramatic Monologue
Award and Fourteen Hills’ Bambi Holmes Fiction Prize,
is also a nominee for inclusion in Best New American Voices. His work
appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, New England Review,
Conjunctions, New American Writing, The Collagist,
New Orleans Review, Colorado Review, Eleven Eleven, and other
literary journals. He teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco and
Berkeley, and lives in Oakland with his wife and child. He is nominated for Secret of Mayo - a Short Story Collection.
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| ANDREW R. TOUHY |
Cassandra Passarelli has published a couple of dozen
stories, most recently in The Carolina Quarterly, Ambit, Chicago Quarterly
Review and MIR. She won the Traverse Theater’s Debut Author Prize and has been
short-listed for Cinnamon, Wells Festival, Cadenza, R Rofihe and Aesthetica
prizes. Her novella Greybill won the Books for Borges Competition. She ran a
bakery, managed a charity, was a sub-editor and set up a library foundation for
children in Guatemala. She studies in ten-year cycles. A degree in literature
at Birkbeck, University of London, was followed by a creative writing masters
at the University of Edinburgh. She lives in Devon, England with her daughter. She is nominated for Bone Metre - Short Story collection.
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| CASSANDRA PASSARELLI |
Charles Kell is a PhD student at The University of Rhode
Island and editor of The Ocean State Review. His poetry and fiction have
appeared in The New Orleans Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, IthacaLit, The
American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. New poetry is forthcoming in The
Pinch, Kestrel, and Sequestrum. He teaches in Rhode Island and Connecticut. He
is nominated for Cell of Lit Glass - Poetry.
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| CHARLES KELL |
Daryl Muranaka spent three years in
Fukui, Japan in the JET Program. He lives in Boston with his family. In
his spare time, he enjoys aikido and tai chi chuan and exploring his
children’s dual heritages. His first book, Hanami, was published by
Aldrich Press and his first chapbook, The Minstrel of Belmont, was
published Finishing Line Press in 2015. He is nominated for Ohana - Poetry.
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| DARYL MURANAKA |
Born in Scotland, David Hale currently lives in
Gloucestershire, where he passes the time by teaching, setting type, looking
after horses and making things. He has two pamphlets out, one from Happenstance
and another from Templar. He is nominated for Dancing Under Bloodless Moon - Poetry.
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| DAVID HALE |
Emily Stern has been writing, teaching,
consulting and performing since the early 1990's. She holds an MFA in
Creative Nonfiction with a critical emphasis on women and AIDS in literature
from Goddard College, and has been published in magazines and anthologies,
including Entropy Magazine and The Santa Fe Literary Review. She’s the
principle consultant and founder of Intersectional Consulting, which consults
nationally on the design and implementation of equity, interdisciplinary and
Title IX programming and curriculum, and original educational tools, including
the El Corozón Deck, a bilingual tool designed to inspire
critical thinking about social justice. More at www.emilystern.com. She is nominated for This Is What It Sounds Like - Life Writing.
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| EMILY STERN |
Gwen Goodkin's writing has been published by The Dublin Review,
Fiction, Witness, The Carolina Quarterly, Atticus Review, jmww, Exposition
Review, The Rumpus, Reed Magazine and others. She has twice been nominated for
a Pushcart Prize and has won the Black Fox Literary Magazine Contest as well as
the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from
the University of British Columbia. She also writes for the screen and stage.
Her website is: gwengoodkin.com
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| GWEN GOODKIN |
Jose Varghese is a bilingual writer/editor/translator from
India. He is the founder and chief editor of Lakeview International Journal of
Literature and Arts and Strands Publishers. He is the author of Silver
Painted Gandhi and Other Poems (2008). He is a contributing writer for
Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel and is on the advisory board of
Mascara Literary Review. He was the winner of The River Muse 2013 Spring Poetry
Contest, a runner up in the Salt Flash Fiction Prize 2013, and a second prize
winner in the Wordweavers Flash Fiction Prize 2012. He was commended in the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry
Prize 2014. He is nominated for In/Sane - a Short Story collection.
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| JOSE VARGHESE |
KC Trommer is the author of the chapbook The Hasp Tongue (dancing girl press, 2014). A graduate of the MFA program at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, KC has won an Academy of American Poets Prize and the 2015 Fugue Poetry Prize. She has collaborated with the Grammy Award-winning composer Herschel Garfein on a song cycle of her poems, "Three Rides". Her recent work appears in the anthologies Resist Much, Obey Little and the forthcoming Who Will Speak for America? She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens with her son.
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| KC TROMMER |
Lucas Jacob's poetry and prose have appeared or are
forthcoming in over 50 journals, including Southwest Review, Hopkins Review,
Barrow Street, Chautauqua, Western Humanities Review, and The Eyewear Review.
He has won the Gival Press Tri-Language Poetry Contest and Gemini Ink's contest
for the tricentennial of the city of San Antonio, Texas. His first chapbook, A
Hole in the Light, came out in 2015 from Anchor & Plume Press. In a 22-year
teaching career, he has worked in four of the United States, and in Budapest,
Hungary, where he was a Fulbright teaching fellow. He is currently based in
Indianapolis, Indiana. He is nominated for The Machinery of Someone Else's Dream - Poetry.
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| LUCAS JACOBS |
Mac Gay has
published three collections: Dearests from Federal Poets Press, Physical Science, from Poems and
Plays, and winner of the Tennessee Poetry Prize, and Pluto's Despair,
out this past November from Kattywompus Press. His Poems have appeared in
numerous reviews, including Atlanta Review, Loose Change, Poems and Plays,
Ironwood, Cutbank, Open City, and Snake Nation Review. His work has
been anthologized in the Southern Poetry Anthology: Georgia from Texas Review
Press. He teaches English and lit at Perimeter College of Georgia State
University. He is nominated for Ghost Hunt - Poetry.
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MAC GAY
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Patrick Williams is a poet and academic librarian living in
Central New York. His recent work appears or is forthcoming in publications
including Nine Mile, Burning House Press, Occulum, and the Bennington Review.
His chapbook Hygiene in Reading (Publishing Genius, 2016) was awarded the 2015
Chris Toll Memorial Prize. He earned an MS and a PhD in Information Studies
from the University of Texas at Austin. He edits Really System, a journal of
poetry and extensible poetics, and is the hands behind typewriter.city, a
basement micropress.
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| PATRICK WILLIAMS |
Roy Richins grew up in Las Vegas and has won the Las
Vegas Review-Journal prize. Then he moved to Colorado, got married, got an MBA,
had two children. This would be his first published novel. Nominated for
Expecting Applause and Nobody Claps - a Novel.
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| ROY RICHINS |
Shane Neilson is a poet, physician, and critic from New
Brunswick, Canada. He is currently completing his PhD in English and Cultural Studies
at McMaster where he researches the representations of pain in Canadian
literature as a Vanier Scholar. He recently published Dysphoria (PQL,
2017), the final volume in his affect trilogy. Also last year, he won the Walrus
Poetry Prize and a major Mitchell Prize. He is nominated for Saving - Poetry.
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| SHANE NEILSON |
Tamara Tracz was born in London in 1970. She started working in theatre when 16, on
Kenneth Branagh’s production of Romeo
and Juliet at the Lyric
Hammersmith. She continued working with Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company,
directing a production for Renaissance Nights, their 1987
festival of new work at the Riverside Studios. She went on to work for
Theatre de Complicite and Hanoch Levin in Tel Aviv, before studying at L’Ecole
International de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Her work in film began when she started making promotional videos for the theatre companies she knew, and between
1994 and 1998 she worked as a camera assistant while making her own short films. She studied film at The California Institute of the Arts between 1998-2002. Her films have won prizes and shown in cinemas, festivals and galleries around the
world. Her work on cinema is published in
Senses of Cinema and in 2012, after four years of work, she published a text/art project Three
Books.
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| TAMARA TRACZ |
Yusuf
DeLorenzo worked and studied abroad for 25 years in North Africa, the Middle
East, and the Indian subcontinent. On returning to Fez, Morocco, the last
functional medieval city in the world, he began thinking of North Africa as
the ideal setting for a sleuth in the midst of the Barbary Pirates. He is
presently at work on the seventh book in the series, the first of which
placed second in the Royal Palms Literary Awards of the Florida Writers
Association. He is nominated for A Graveyard in Algiers - a Novel.
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| YUSUF DELORENZO |
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