Today we announced the shortlists for the Chris Al Aswad Prize. Six extraordinary peole and projects include a deaf writer/playwright/filmmaker; a painstaking visual and written archive of native american culture; a collective of artists giving back to their communities; an art/literature public participation project that will become a permanent installation at Brooklyn Library; a cooperative publishing venture devoted to getting more books available in translation; and an internet project that's united tens of thousands of writers
http://eightcuts.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/christopher-al-aswad-prize-shortlist/
http://eightcuts.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/christopher-al-aswad-prize-shortlist/I've been delighted by the response to the request to offer prizes - in addition to features on the recipient in the fab words With Jam, an interviw with Writers' Digest's Jane Friedman is just one of many that I hope will help the winner. Do feel free to add your own offer - anything from a guest blog up for the recipient. Most of all check out their amazing work
and for the eight cuts gallery literature prize for the best work of literature in any format, medium, genre, any anything in 2009-10.
You can find the four genuinely outstanding nominees, including one blog; one website-cum-paperzine; one book and one mainstream press here:
http://eightcuts.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/eight-cuts-gallery-prize/
http://eightcuts.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/eight-cuts-gallery-prize/
Songs from the Other Side of the Wall is just £0.70 on Kindle
New Prize
12 Aug 2010, 20:12
