Monica Drake's Clown Girl wins Eric Hoffer Award!

12 May 2008

The Eric Hoffer Award for Books offers a grand prize of $1,500 annually and separate distinctions for best academic, small, and micro press, best self-published book, and various winners in fourteen categories that cover the entire publishing spectrum. Category distinctions were awarded on three levels in descending order: Winner, First Runner-Up, and Notables. Finally, the Montaigne Medal was awarded to the most thought-provoking titles. You may visit www.HofferAward.com to view a PDF of our award mini-issue, which reflects the eventual coverage to appear in the anthology Best New Writing.

GRAND PRIZE * Thought to Exist in the Wild, Derrick Jensen, Photographs by Karen Tweedy-Holms, No Voice Unheard

ACADEMIC PRESS * Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible, Karel van der Toorn, Harvard University Press

SMALL PRESS * Lasting Contribution, Tad Waddington, Agate B2 Books

MICRO PRESS * Clown Girl, Monica Drake, Hawthorne Books

Scott Nadelson wins Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction

19 March 2008

Congratulations to Scott Nadelson, whose book of short stories, The Cantor’s Daughter: Stories (2006), has been awarded the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction. The $5,000 award, conceived by its principal benefactor, Dr. Alexander Mauskop, a New York neurologist and member of Larchmont Temple in New York, assists promising Jewish fiction writers.

Check out an interview with Scott on the magazine's website: http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1331

Hawthorne Books launches new news, photo, and video blog!

01 December 2007

Hawthorne Books' new blog is located at hawthornebooks.blogspot.com--check it out!

Clown Girl by Monica Drake has been named as a 2007 Oregon Book Award finalist!

02 December 2007

Along with two other outstanding books by Oregon writers--Twenty Questions by Alison Clement and When All is Said and Done by Robert Hill--Clown Girl has been named a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for the Novel. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at the Portland Art Museum.

For more information, please check out the Oregon Book Awards page at the Literary Arts website: http://www.literary-arts.org/

CONGRATULATIONS TOBY OLSON!

19 June 2007

Toby's Olson's PEN/Faulkner-winning novel, Seaview, wins Honorable Mention at the New York Book Festival.

June 23, 2007. Central Park from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held near the Naumburg Bandshell in the park. Author readings and signings, live music, clowns doing face-painting and balloon animals, book vendors, food and live music will be part of the day-long celebration of literacy and education.

http://www.newyorkbookfestival.com/event/details.asp?event_id=9

CONGRATULATIONS SCOTT NADELSON!

15 June 2007

The Foundation for Jewish Culture recently announced Scott Nadelson as the 2007 recipient of Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers. Nadelson joins an impressive roster of past winners including Nancy Reisman, Peter Orner, Lara Vapnyar, Gary Shteyngart, and Nathan Englander. A $2,500 prize is given to recipients as well as a week-long residency at the Ledig House International Writers’ Colony in New York’s Hudson Valley.

The prize, now in its eighth year, was the first award of its kind to highlight landmark works by contemporary writers exploring Jewish themes. The panelists, representing leaders in the literary field, include Peter Orner; Cindy Spiegel, head of the new Spiegel & Grau imprint at Random House; Neil Baldwin, former head of the National Book Awards; and former New Yorker essayist and cultural critic Daphne Merkin, who said this about picking the winner, “My first choice is The Cantor’s Daughter, which I found moving and original without being clearly derivative from any specific style.”

CONGRATULATIONS POE BALLANTINE!

04 June 2007

Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire wins bronze ForeWord's Book of the Year Award for Literary Fiction. To view the gold and silver winners and the honorable mention, go here: http://www.forewordmagazine.com/botyasearch2k6.aspxsrchlimit=1&srchtype=category&srchval=30

Clown Girl goes to Italy!

04 April 2007

Italian publisher Neri Pozza has bought the rights to Monica Drake's Clown Girl and will publish the translation by the end of 2008.
http://www.neripozza.it

Hawthorne Books Awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship 2007

21 February 2007

Literary Arts and the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts support and celebrate Oregon writers and publishers. Literary Arts has honored nearly 500 Oregon writers and publishers and distributed more than a half–million dollars in fellowships and awards.

Poe Ballantine included in Best American Essays 2006 anthology

30 September 2006

Lauren Slater, this year's Guest Editor of The Best American Essays 2006 (Houghton Mifflin), has chosen to include in the anthology Poe Ballantine's "501 Minutes to Christ" that originally appeared in The Sun (August).

Richard Wiley's PEN/Faulkner Award winning novel, Soldiers in Hiding launches Hawthorne Books' Rediscovery Series

30 September 2006

Re-released this past September with an introduction by Nobel Prize-Winner Wole Soyinka is Richard Wiley's Soldiers in Hiding.The New York Times called it, "A rich and ingenious novel that suceeds brilliantly."

The Hawthorne Books Rediscovery Series brings notable literary works by living American writers back into print with exceptional new packaging as original trade paperbacks. Each title includes a new preface by each author as well as an introduction by a prominent literary figure. Many of our Rediscovery titles are award winners, and the goal of our series is to equate their market worth with their literary value.

Other titles in the series include Toby Olson's Seaview with an introduction by Robert Coover; Tom Spanbauer's Faraway Places with an introduction by A.M. Homes; and Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Leaving Brooklyn with an introduction by Ursula Hegi.