Fabri Literary Prize

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The Fabri Literary Prize was established in 2006 to honor the memory of Frances Fabri. A Holocaust survivor, Frances Fabri spearheaded efforts in the United States to record survivor stories, helping to create the interviewing protocols that are used widely today. Frances had much respect for the storyteller’s craft. Throughout her adult life she wrote chronicles of her experiences in the concentration camps and recorded oral histories of fellow survivors. [1] A collection of her short stories, Crickets Would Sing, has been published posthumously by Plum Branch Press.

Frances Fabri, born Sárika Ladányi, was a Hungarian-born author and Holocaust survivor. She was born in Békés, Hungary.

Matthew McKay, [2] psychologist and co-founder of New Harbinger Publications, [3] admired Frances’s determination to write and tell her story. His goal for The Fabri Literary Prize was to discover "deserving but underappreciated" works of fiction and have them published for the general book trade. [4]

New Harbinger Publications, Inc. is an Oakland-based American publisher of self-help books.

The Fabri Literary Prize is open to unpublished novels written for adults with a variety of interests. Books for children or young adults and books that are focused on the religious market are excluded from consideration. Each prizewinner receives a publishing contract with a $7,500 advance and a $5,000 marketing budget.

The Fabri Literary Prize is awarded once a year. The prize is administered by Boaz Publishing and deadlines for entry are announced on the Boaz Publishing web site. The winning novel is published by Boaz Publishing Company [5] and distributed by New Harbinger Publications. [4]

Each prize session has judges with years of experience in the book industry. The inaugural prize was judged by Jim Krusoe, author of Blood Lake and Other Stories, [6] Tara Ison, [7] author of The List, and Cyndi Hughes, book editor and producer of the Kansas Book Festival. [8]

Jim Krusoe is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His stories and poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, BOMB, Iowa Review, Field, North American Review, American Poetry Review, and Santa Monica Review, which he founded in 1988. His essays and book reviews have appeared in Manoa, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times and the Washington Post. He is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund. He teaches at Santa Monica College and in the graduate writing program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His novel, Iceland, was selected by the Los Angeles Times and the Austin Chronicle as one of the ten best fiction books of 2002, and it was on the Washington Post list of notable fiction for the same year. His novel Girl Factory was published in 2008 by Tin House Books followed by Erased, which was published in 2009 and Toward You published in 2010, also by Tin House Books.

Tara Ison American writer

Tara Ison is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She is the author of three novels: Rockaway, The List, and A Child out of Alcatraz, which was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A collection of essays, Reeling Through Life: How I Learned To Live, Love & Die at the Movies, was published by Soft Skull Press in January 2015, and was the winner of the 2015 PEN Southwest Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her short story collection, Ball, was published by Soft Skull Press in Fall 2015.

Fabri Prize Winners

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References

  1. ↑ "Boaz Publishing Offers $10,000 for Unpublished Novels". Publishers Weekly(2007-01-26).
  2. ↑ "Matthew McKay, Ph.D." New Harbinger Publications. Archived from the original on 2010-04-17.
  3. ↑ "New Harbinger Publications".
  4. 1 2 "Contests" (PDF). Northwest Ohio Writers Forum E-Newsletter (2007-01).[ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Boaz Publishing Offers $10,000 for Unpublished Novels". writingnews.org. 2007-01-27. Archived from the original on 2008-01-05.
  6. ↑ "Blood Lake and Other Stories". Boaz Publishing Company. Archived from the original on 2019-01-28. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
  7. ↑ "Tara Ison".
  8. ↑ "2007 Kansas Book Festival". Archived from the original on 2008-02-24.
  9. ↑ "Reservation Nation".
  10. ↑ "The Great Days".
  11. ↑ "Mike Tyson Slept Here on Boaz website".
  12. ↑ "Memories from Cherry Harvest".
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