http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/01/22/the-story-prize-announces-finalists/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:24:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/01/22/the-story-prize-announces-finalists/#comment-6616 Pei-Ling Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:27:03 +0000 http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/01/22/the-story-prize-announces-finalists/#comment-6616 I suppose the way the program was printed up at last year's Story Prize ceremony, with Jim Shepard's name sort of set apart from the other two, several of us in the audience assumed he would be the winner, but as it turns out, we must have just been really good guessers! This year, I will not be assuming anything and will look forward to being more surprised. My hunch is on Jhumpa Lahiri, though. I suppose the way the program was printed up at last year’s Story Prize ceremony, with Jim Shepard’s name sort of set apart from the other two, several of us in the audience assumed he would be the winner, but as it turns out, we must have just been really good guessers! This year, I will not be assuming anything and will look forward to being more surprised. My hunch is on Jhumpa Lahiri, though.

]]> http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/01/22/the-story-prize-announces-finalists/#comment-6604 Larry Dark, The Story Prize Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:59:13 +0000 http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/01/22/the-story-prize-announces-finalists/#comment-6604 Pei-Ling, when we set the order of readers for The Story Prize event, we don't yet know who the winner will be. That's true now. We've already decided on the order for our March 4 event, and the judges are still reading the books. We tend to go alphabetically (by last name, although this year it would be exactly the same with first names). The one year we didn't was in 2005, when we decided Jim Harrison should go last because he would have been a tough act to follow--and he would have been. And, as it happens, the writer who goes second has won two of the three years that our award night has followed the present format. Pei-Ling, when we set the order of readers for The Story Prize event, we don’t yet know who the winner will be. That’s true now. We’ve already decided on the order for our March 4 event, and the judges are still reading the books. We tend to go alphabetically (by last name, although this year it would be exactly the same with first names). The one year we didn’t was in 2005, when we decided Jim Harrison should go last because he would have been a tough act to follow–and he would have been. And, as it happens, the writer who goes second has won two of the three years that our award night has followed the present format.

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