Literary Contests
In addition to solicited and unsolicited work by established and emerging writers, Tidal Journal publishes works selected by the guest judges for prizes sponsored by the International Women's Writing Guild. Click here for more info on the prizes.
Pat Carr Prize for Mainstream Literary Short Story
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In recognition of her remarkable body of work and in honor of her many contributions as a past board member and longtime workshop leader, The International Women’s Writing Guild is pleased to present the Pat Carr Prize for Mainstream Literary Short Story.
Pat Carr has published eighteen books, including the Iowa Short Fiction Prize winner The Women in the Mirror, and has had over one hundred stories published in such places as The Southern Review, Yale Review, and Best American Short Stories. The Death of a Confederate Colonel, a nominee for the Faulkner Award, won the PEN Southwest Fiction Award and the John Estes Cooke Fiction Award, and was voted one of the top ten books from university presses for 2007 by Foreword Magazine. She has won numerous other awards, including a Library of Congress MARC IV, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award, an Al Smith Literary Fellowship, and a Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt Writing Fellowship in Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Carr is the 2013 recipient of The Porter Fund Literary Prize, presented annually to an Arkansas writer who has accomplished a substantial and impressive body of work that merits enhanced recognition. Her latest publications are a memoir, One Page at a Time: On a Writing Life; a how-to writing book, Writing Fiction with Pat Carr; a novella, The Radiance of Fossils; and a story collection, The House on Prytania. She has taught literature and writing in colleges across the southern United States. |
2018 guest judge, Kat Meads, is the author of 20 books and chapbooks of prose and poetry, including 2:12 a.m.: Essays; Not Waving; For You, Madam Lenin; Little Pockets of Alarm; The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan; Sleep; and a mystery novel written under the pseudonym Z.K. Burrus.
She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a California Artist Fellowship, two Silicon Valley artist grants, and artist residencies at Yaddo, Millay Colony, Dorland, the Montalvo Center for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and elsewhere. She is a three-time ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year finalist, and four of her essays have been selected as Notables in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American Essaysseries. Her novel For You, Madam Lenin received an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) Silver Medal and was shortlisted for the Montaigne Medal for thought-provoking literature. Her essay collection 2:12 a.m.received an IPPY Gold Medal. A native of North Carolina, she currently lives in California and teaches in Oklahoma City University’s low-residency MFA program. Her newest fiction, Miss Jane: The Lost Years, is forthcoming from Livingston Press/University of West Alabama. www.katmeads.com |
Myra Shapiro Prize for Poetry
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In recognition of Ms. Shapiro’s gift, so warmly and generously shared, for teaching women to find their poet’s voice in unexpected places, The International Women’s Writing Guild is pleased to present the Myra Shapiro Prize for Poetry.
In an interview with Rattle on August 12, 2015, poet Myra Shapiro reported, “I was born in the Bronx but my father moved us to a little town in Georgia ‘to make a buck’ when I was ten, so I spent years longing for the City that fit me: the way I spoke (a mix of immigrant rhythms and no-nonsense directness), buildings that held me close, lit-up windows that warmed me. In 1981, I started subletting apartments and I’m still here.” Ms. Shapiro has published poems and stories in many periodicals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry. Her books of poetry include I’ll See You Thursday and, most recently, 12 Floors Above the Earth. She is also the author of a memoir, Four Sublets: Becoming a Poet in New York. She is devoted to both solitude and community, and serves on the board of Poets House. |
2018 guest judge, Lauren Clark, published her first collection of poems, Music for a Wedding, in 2017 (University of Pittsburgh Press), which was selected by Vijay Seshadri for the 2016 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. She holds a BA in Classics from Oberlin College and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she was the recipient of six Hopwood Awards.
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Susan Tiberghien Prize for Narrative Nonfiction
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In recognition of her tireless effort to create meaningful networking and learning opportunities for expatriate English-language writers, and in honor of her many contributions as a past board member and longtime workshop leader, The International Women’s Writing Guild is pleased to present the Susan Tiberghien Prize for Narrative Nonfiction.
Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She has published four memoirs, Looking for Gold: One Year in Jungian Analysis; Circling to the Center: A Woman’s Encounter with Silent Prayer; Side by Side: Writing Your Love Story; and Footsteps: In Love with a Frenchman. She has also written a highly regarded writing book, One Year to a Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer’s Art and Craft. Her numerous narrative essays have appeared in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. Ms. Tiberghien teaches and lectures at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers’ conferences both in the States and in Europe. In 1993, she founded the Geneva Writers’ Group, which she continues to direct and where she teaches monthly workshops. She is the founding editor of their literary review, Offshoots: Writing from Geneva. Since 1998, she has directed the biennial Geneva Writers’ Conference. In Paris, she has taught at the Paris Writers’ Workshop and given workshops at Shakespeare and Company, Village Voice, and the American Library. She has also given workshops in Brussels, Luxembourg, Basel, and Bern. She is a founding member of the International Writers’ Residence at the Château de Lavigny. |
2018 guest judge, Sharman Apt Russell has published a dozen books translated into a dozen languages. She was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing for Diary of a Citizen Scientist (Oregon State University Press, 2014), which also won the WILLA Award and was named by The Guardian as a top-ten nature book. Currently, she is working on Within Our Grasp: Feeding the World’s Children for a Better and Greener Future (Pantheon Books/Vintage, 2019), which combines her longtime interests in the environment and hunger. Her essays have been published in many magazines, journals, and anthologies.
She lives in the Gila Valley of southwestern New Mexico and teaches part-time at Western New Mexico University, where she is a professor emeritus, and at Antioch University in Los Angeles. www.sharmanaptrussell.com. |