New England Review is pleased to present the third event in the quarterly NER Vermont Reading Series, featuring four Vermont authors, including the state’s new Poet Laureate. On Thursday, November 10, 2011, at 7 p.m., Ellen Dudley, Estela González, Sydney Lea, and Leath Tonino will read from their work at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, VT. [READ MORE]
Also reading TODAY, is poet and Middlebury graduate Lucas Farrell, at the Axinn Center, Abernethy Room, 4:30 p.m.
Eduardo C. Corrall (30.4) is among the recipients of this year’s Whiting Writers Awards, which are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The awards, of $50,000 each, are based on accomplishment and promise.
David Phillip Mullins (29.2) was recently awarded the the Silver Pen Award, from the Friends of the University of Nevada (Reno) Library in recognition of his writing career in and about Nevada, as part of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame’s effort to recognize writers who are in mid-career and have shown substantial achievement.
The National Book Foundation has named NER contributor Melinda Moustakis (32.1) one of its 2011 “5 Under 35,” an honor that acknowledges notable young fiction writers under the age of 35. The writers will be honored Nov. 14 in New York at a celebration hosted by filmmaker and author John Waters.