Lane

How to win 100,000 dollars for short fiction

In Short stories, Writing on March 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM

1. Write some great stories 

2. Get them published

3. You then have to win the Sami Rohr prize

If steps one and two did not defeat you, then go for it – but you will need to have chosen your mother carefully. Click on the prize link to see why. Congrats to Sana Karasikov who is this year’s winner with her debut short story collection One More Year. And thanks to Tania Hershman who told me about this.

  1. Miracles do happen. Good deal.

  2. My pleasure. $100,000 would go down nicely, eh? Even though I have chosen my mother appropriately for this prize, I don’t write the appropriate subject matter to be considered Jewish literature, so alas I am unlikely to ever have my name and this prize in the same paragraph again!

  3. Hey T, I feel compelled to ask, what is “the appropriate subject matter to be considered Jewish literature”? I mean, maybe I/you/we all have some idea based on the past, but aren’t these things up for redefinition from time to time? [Have not yet read Sara Karasikov's book, so this is not a comment on her work...] -L

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