Prize News Edwidge Danticat won the first $20,000 Story Prize for THE DEW BREAKER. The Quill Awards get covered in multiple places but, sadly, the place we still think of as “the paper of record” yet again blows a simple publishing story by misinterpreting a press release. The NYT incorrectly attributes the announcement — and by implication the whole awards program — to “a new philanthropy called the Quills Literacy Foundation.” Yes, the press release (which we linked to yesterday) is a little fuzzy on who really owns this program and what its true purposes are. But as we reported, […]
