the novella award
Aimee Bender has selected Jessica Lott's Osin's Return as the winner of the 2006 Novella Award. LoFi will publish the book in April of 2006.
The runner-up is Marci Vogel's Death and Other Holidays.
Below are finalists in the 2006 Novella Award:
Fly, Rapunzel by Sylvie M. Beauvais
Instructions for Living by Laurie Blauner
Lemur by Tom Bradley
Embouchure by Barbara R. Drake
Too Stubborn to Die by Brad Fox
All the Day's Sad Stories by Tina Hall
Frottage by Mona Houghton
With the Slightest Cloud of Ash by George Looney
The Call by Pat Rushin
Morley, Morla, M by Jodi Lynn Villers
LoFi will offer the Novella Award again in 2008. The guidelines for this year's contest are below:
At the request of skimpy novelists and
bloated short story authors the whole world over, Low Fidelity Press is sponsoring The Second Biennial Novella
Award. Low Fidelity will publish the winning novella—and perhaps,
down the line, esteemable runners-up—as a stand-alone trade paperback
book and award the author a $1,000 advance.
2006
Final Judge: Aimee Bender, the author of The Girl in the Flammable
Skirt, a collection of stories and a New York Times Notable
Book of 1998; and An Invisible Sign of My Own, a novel and
an L.A. Times Pick of 2000. Her short fiction has been published
in Granta, GQ, Harper’s, The Paris
Review, Fence, and other journals, and has been read on
NPR’s “This American Life.” Bender is currently working
on a new novel and stories. She teaches creative writing at USC.
Last
year’s winner, Stefan Kiesbye’s Next
Door Lived a Girl, is now available. And here’s what’s
being said:
“ Small presses have been putting out some really good books lately, and it's often hard for them to get noticed, but Stefan Kiesbye deserves whatever hype he can snag for his debut novella.” — Chicago Reader, naming Kiesbye's novella Critic's Choice
“
This is Stefan Kiesbye’s brilliant debut, a book so quiet and
yet so maddeningly powerful, you just have to wonder about him a little
bit.” — Robert Olmstead
“
Kiesbye’s dark, distinctive vision of humanity, is composed with
such narrative skill and verve as to render the bleakness bracing,
the grimness utterly gripping. A significant and powerful debut.” — Peter
Ho Davies
The Fine Print: The winning novella will be published in Dec. 2006
and its author awarded a $1,000 advance. Reading fee is $20 per entry.
Make checks payable to Low Fidelity Press. Manuscripts will not be returned.
Send your email address to be notified of the winner. Send a SAS postcard
if you want to know we received your manuscript. Length: Any. For the
purposes of this contest, a novella is defi ned as “longer than
a short story but shorter than a novel.” Genre: Any or none. Postmark
deadline is February 1, 2006. Results will be posted on our website. Right here, in fact. We do not individually notify entrants of the results
by regular mail. Any SASE sent for that purpose will be directed to
the recycling bin. The judge is not mandated to pick a winner if she
does not deem the finalist manuscripts ready for publication.
Send entries to:
The Novella Award
Low Fidelity Press
1912 16th Ave South
Birmingham, AL 35205-5607
(Note: Do not be concerned if you've already sent an entry to the PO Box in Brooklyn, NY. Your entry will definitely be received. We're just re-routing remaining entries for our internal convenience.)
2004 Novella Award Winner:
Next Door Lived a Girl by Stefan
Kiesbyse
2004 Novella Award Finalists:
The Devil's Party by Cara Chamberlain
The Immovable Object by Christopher Hartley
Humidity by Matthew Kirby
The Liquidators by Tom LeClair
Good, Brother by Peter Markus
Waste by Eugene Marten
Imagine the Dog by Cecilia Pinto
The Call by Pat Rushin
Tetched by Thaddeus Rutkowski
In Urbem by Nina Shope
Epigraph Me by Lael Smith
