Atelier26 Books is very proud to announce that Margaret Malone’s debut short story
collection People Like You has won the 2015 Balcones Fiction Prize!
Malone will receive a $1,500 cash
award and a paid trip to Austin, Texas to give a reading next spring.
This
award follows fast on Malone’s honor as a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award last month.
Balcones judge John Blair, author of the Drue Heinz Prize winning collection American Standard, had this to say:
Balcones judge John Blair, author of the Drue Heinz Prize winning collection American Standard, had this to say:
"Margaret Malone's People Like You is a masterfully minimalist collection of lives lived poorly but with the best of intentions. Her stories are powerful, sad, and plain-spoken, and this debut collection takes the normative-yet-desperate circuits of the day-to-day that Bobbie Anne Mason and Frederick Barthelme brought to the forefront of American short fiction and makes them both new again and powerfully affecting. These are marvelous and worthy stories, and very much deserving of recognition."
Administered by the Balcones Center for Creative Writing at Austin Community
College, the Balcones Fiction Prize is committed to recognizing outstanding
works of literary merit annually.
Congratulations, Margaret!
Read more about People Like You HERE.
