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Congratulations to the 2011 winners and finalists of the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award!
The 2011 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award in the National Author category will go to Hoosier author Margaret McMullan, along with a $10,000 prize. Helen Frost has also been named as the winner in the Regional Author category, earning her a $7,500 prize. The National and Regional recipients, along with finalists in the Emerging Author category were named this week by the Award Panel. All will be honored at the Indiana Authors Award dinner and festivities on October 29, 2011 at the Central Library in Indianapolis.
This annual award recognizes the contributions of Indiana authors to the literary landscape in Indiana and across the nation. The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award is a program of The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation and is funded through the generosity of The Glick Fund, a fund of Central Indiana Community Foundation.
Nominations were submitted from across the state in early spring. Any published writer who was born in Indiana or has lived in Indiana for at least five years was eligible. A ten-member, statewide Award Panel selected the National and Regional winners and finalists in the third category of emerging authors from the pool of publicly nominated authors:
• National Author - $10,000 prize: a writer with Indiana ties, but whose work is known and read throughout the country. National authors were evaluated on their entire body of work.
Winner: Margaret McMullan
• Regional Author - $7,500 prize: A writer who is well-known and respected throughout the state of Indiana. Regional authors were evaluated on their entire body of work.
Winner: Helen Frost
• Emerging Author - $5,000 prize: A writer who has published no more than two books during his/her lifetime. The title(s) must have been published within the last 10 years. Emerging authors were evaluated on these specific works.
Finalists: Micah Ling, Aaron Michael Morales and Bich Minh Nguyen
Award finalists in all three categories will be honored on October 29, 2011 at Central Library in downtown Indianapolis. The day’s events will include free public programs such as author lectures from this year’s Indiana Authors Award honorees, “how to get published” workshops for aspiring writers presented by The Writers’ Center of Indiana, and book sales and signings featuring authors from around the state. A ticketed Award Dinner and fundraiser benefiting the Library Foundation will follow that evening where the winner of the Emerging Author category will be named. McMullan will serve as the dinner’s keynote speaker. Ticket information for the Indiana Authors Award Dinner is available by contacting the Library Foundation at (317) 275-4700.
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Congratulations to all of the past winners and finalists for the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award. These authors represent some of the best that Indiana literature has to offer, and are truly deserving of recognition.
Click here for a complete list of past winners and finalists.
The State of Indiana boasts a number of authors worthy of recognition. The following writers with Hoosier connections are no longer with us, but their works have left an indelible mark on the literary landscape of Indiana.
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Booth Tarkington
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Etheridge Knight
- Gene Stratton-Porter
- George Ade
- Jessamyn West
- Carol Shields
- Theodore Dreiser
- Lew Wallace
- Kin Hubbard
Who will be the next great Indiana author to be added to this list? It could be one of the nearly 200 authors nominated by the public for the 2009 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award! For more information about these and other authors with Indiana ties, visit the following Web sites:
Wabash Carnegie Public Library’s list of Indiana Authors
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