Josh Weil, a Tennessee Williams Scholar in 2008 and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in 2009, has won the prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his book The New Valley. The $5000 award is given to the best work of first fiction (novel or collection of stories) published in 2009. We are excited to hear of this great news, as we have been big fans of Josh's since he came to the conference in 2008, and we can't wait to see what comes next for this author.
Further Reading
- A review of The New Valley in the New York Times.
- An essay in Granta by Josh about the landscape and the people who shaped the novellas in The New Valley.
- "Salt Lake", a story at FiveChapters.com.