Maud Newton wins Narrative Prize

We're pleased to note that B&N Review contributor Maud Newton has been awarded Narrative's annual prize for work from an emerging writer.

 

The laurels go to "the best work published each year in Narrative by a new or emerging writer, as judged by the magazine’s editors."    The winning piece is her story "When the Flock Changed."  (You can also find a longish excerpt of the story at Maud's website.)  The story itself is part of a larger work in progress.

 

And don't miss Maud's latest piece for the Review -- on Lorrie Moore's novel A Gate at the Stairs.

 

Congratulations, Maud!

May 23: Girolamo Savonarola was hanged on this day in 1498 and then incinerated in the same piazza in which the citizens of Florence had earlier attended more than one "bonfire of the vanities." George Eliot's 1863 novel Romola,

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