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Author A.M. Homes, critic Carolyn Kellogg, and librarian Bill Kelly are the judges who will choose the 2009 winner of The Story Prize. Each year, The Story Prize selects its judges from fields associated with short fiction. Past judges have included writers, editors, booksellers, librarians, and critics. Larry Dark, director of The Story Prize, and Julie Lindsey, who founded The Story Prize in 2004, will select the three story collections from which the judges will choose. The winner will be announced at The Story Prize Awards Ceremony on March 3, 2010 at The New School.
About the 2009 Judges
 A.M. Homes is the author of the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the short story collections The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know, and a travel book, Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill. Her most recent book was her memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, a New York Times bestseller. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has published fiction and essays in the New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and the New York Times. She lives in New York City.
 Carolyn Kellogg is a book critic, reporter and lead blogger for the Los Angeles Times book blog, Jacket Copy. She has been heard on NPR and seen on KTLA. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in Los Angeles.
 Bill Kelly is an award-winning librarian with Ohio's Cuyahoga County Public Library. He is an expert on literary fiction and readers' advisory. He has presented numerous programs on reading and book-related topics and has appeared on local television and NPR to discuss books and authors. He lives in North Royalton, Ohio, with his wife Carolyn and their two daughters, Delaney and Anna.
About The Story Prize
The Story Prize is an annual book award for short story collections written in English and published in the U.S. during a calendar year. The winner receives $20,000, and each finalist receives $5,000. Previous winners include works by Edwidge Danticat, Patrick O'Keeffe, Mary Gordon, Jim Shepard, and last year's winner, Tobias Wolff.
The final deadline for submitting books is November 16, 2009. The three finalists will be announced in late January, 2010. The 2009 Story Prize winner will be announced on March 3, 2010 at an event open to the public and featuring conversations and readings with the three finalists at The New School in New York City.
The Story Prize website, www.thestoryprize.org, features information about the first five years of the award, as well as instructions on how to enter books to be considered for the award.
For more on The Story Prize, the judges, the finalists, and the event, please visit TSP, the official blog of The Story Prize: www.thestoryprize.blogspot.com
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