Tayari's Blog: Amanda Davis Fiction Award

Posted by TayariJones on February 2, 2006 03:46 PM
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Here is an award for a young woman who is working hard on her first book. It is named after my friend Amanda Davis who passed away a couple of years ago. Please enter and win it. I miss that crazy girl.

This memorial award is intended to aid a young woman writer of 32 years or younger who both embodies Amanda's personal strengths—warmth, generosity, a passion for community—and needs some time to finish a book in progress. The book in progress needn't be thematically or stylistically close to Amanda's work, but we would be lying if we said we weren't looking to support another writer of Amanda's outrageous lyricism and heart.
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Comment #1, by Michael Fischer [TypeKey Profile Page]

I remember reading her story in that "Best New American Voices" anthology. It was one of the best in that collection. If I was a woman, I'd enter, but I'm going to pass this along to some of my female friends!

February 3, 2006 09:57 AM

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