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Recent Awards for Current and Previous Blackbird Contributors

For his work in the field of fiction, Chris Abani has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Sandra Beasley’s second collection, I Was the Jukebox, was selected as the winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize and will be published by W.W. Norton in April, 2010.

Peter Campion has been selected for the Rome Fellowship in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Michael Collier was recently selected by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as a winner of the 2009 Academy Awards in Literature.

Jehanne Dubrow’s collection of poetry, From the Fever-World (2009), has been awarded the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Prize.

Terrance Hayes, Associate Professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University, has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2009.

Caitlin Horrock’s first collection of short stories, This is Not Your City, was selected by Rick Bass as the winner of the 2008 Spokane Prize and will be published in fall, 2009 by Eastern Washington University Press.

Miroslav Penkov’s short story, “Buying Lenin,” has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Mariner), edited by Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor.

Christine Schutt’s novel, All Souls (Harcourt, 2008), has been selected as one of the three finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

Lisa Russ Spaar, Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2009.

Mark Strand was awarded the 2009 Gold Medal for Poetry by the American Academy of Arts in Letters.

Ellen Bryant Voigt has won the 2009 Poet’s Prize for Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976–2006 (W. W. Norton, 2007).

 
 Contributor Awards | Recent Books | LOCKSS

Recent Books by Current and Previous Blackbird Contributors

2009

From the Fever-World
Washington Writers’ Publishing House
Jehanne Dubrow

The Hardship Post
three candles press
Jehanne Dubrow

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
Harper Perennial
Kevin Wilson

2010

Stateside
Northwestern University Press
Jehanne Dubrow

 Contributor Awards | Recent Books | LOCKSS

Blackbird and LOCKSS

In the summer of 2003, Vicky Reich of Stanford University contacted Blackbird to ask our participation in beta testing of the LOCKSS Program. LOCKSS (short for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is both a system and a software created to safeguard electronic publications. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems, the LOCKSS Program Team is building a distributed digital archive system for electronic journals and other important web documents. A consortium of participating libraries all over the world will manage their own storehouses for digital material by using the LOCKSS software, which not only preserves electronic journal content, but also constantly compares the copies in these digital "caches" for integrity.

Panelists from Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and four other universities had gathered on the literary librarian team to select 50 titles based on "intellectual merit." The LOCKSS technical team further reviewed and narrowed this list based on "publisher technical competence." Blackbird was one of only two literary journals selected for inclusion.

Beta testing has now been concluded. On April 5, 2004, the LOCKSS Program released the first version production of the LOCKSS software.