{"id":134176,"date":"2019-03-06T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=134176"},"modified":"2019-03-06T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:14:22","slug":"kelli-jo-ford-wins-2019-plimpton-prize-benjamin-nugent-wins-terry-southern-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/kelli-jo-ford-wins-2019-plimpton-prize-benjamin-nugent-wins-terry-southern-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelli Jo Ford Wins 2019 Plimpton Prize; Benjamin Nugent Wins Terry Southern Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/revel19_invitation__.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/revel19_invitation__.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/revel19_invitation__.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/revel19_invitation__-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/revel19_invitation__-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u2019s Spring Revel is less than a month away\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-spring-revel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tickets are still available here<\/a>\u2014and\u00a0the editorial committee of our board has chosen the winners of two annual prizes for outstanding contributions to the magazine. It\u2019s with great pleasure that we announce our 2019 honorees,\u00a0<strong>Kelli Jo Ford\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Benjamin Nugent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the Plimpton Prize include Isabella Hammad,\u00a0Alexia Arthurs, Emma Cline, Ottessa Moshfegh, Jesse Ball, and Yiyun Li; Southern Prize winners include David Sedaris, Vanessa Davis, Chris Bachelder, Mark Leyner, Ben Lerner, and Elif Batuman. The\u00a0<em>Review<\/em>\u00a0began awarding prizes to its contributors in 1956; here\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/about\/prizes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a full list of past recipients<\/a>, including Philip Roth, David Foster Wallace, Christina Stead, Denis Johnson, Frank Bidart, and Annie Proulx.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_134185\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ford_headshot_2bw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134185\" class=\"wp-image-134185 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ford_headshot_2bw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ford_headshot_2bw.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ford_headshot_2bw-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ford_headshot_2bw-768x968.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ford_headshot_2bw-812x1024.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-134185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelli Jo Ford.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Plimpton Prize for Fiction is a $10,000 award given to an emerging writer published in the past four issues. Named after our longtime editor George Plimpton, it commemorates his zeal for discovering new writers.\u00a0This year\u2019s Plimpton Prize will be presented by\u00a0the novelist\u00a0<strong>Richard Ford<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>Kelli Jo Ford<\/strong>, for her story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7288\/hybrid-vigor-kelli-jo-ford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hybrid Vigor<\/a>,\u201d from the Winter 2018 issue. \u201cHybrid Vigor\u201d\u00a0focuses on the unforgettable Reney, a young woman struggling to find her way through the adulthood she\u2019s been dealt, living paycheck to paycheck. She manages a Dairy Queen, attends night school, and scratches out a life on a dwindling plot of farmland, where a calf and her prized mule, Rosalee, have just gone missing.<\/p>\n<p>Kelli Jo Ford\u2019s first book, <em>Crooked Hallelujah<\/em>, will be published by Grove Atlantic next winter. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as <em>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em> and <em>The<\/em> <em>Missouri Review<\/em>, which awarded \u201cBook of the Generations\u201d the 2018 Peden Prize. She\u2019s been a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellow, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant recipient, a Dobie Paisano Fellow, and Indigenous Writer in Residence at the School for Advanced Research. She lives with her husband, Scott Weaver, and their daughter in Richmond, Virginia. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_134204\" style=\"width: 1211px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nugent-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134204\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nugent-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1201\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nugent-1.png 1201w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nugent-1-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nugent-1-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nugent-1-1024x680.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-134204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin Nugent.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Terry Southern Prize for Humor is a $5,000 award honoring humor, wit, and sprezzatura in work from either\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0or the\u00a0<em>Daily.<\/em>\u00a0It\u2019s named for\u00a0Terry Southern,\u00a0a satirical novelist and pioneering New Journalist perhaps best known as the screenwriter behind\u00a0<em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Easy Rider<\/em>. Southern was a driving force behind the early\u00a0<em>Paris Review<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/no-stranger-to-excess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as is amply demonstrated in his correspondence<\/a>. This year\u2019s Southern Prize will be presented by\u00a0the novelist and previous Southern Prize winner<strong>\u00a0Elif Batuman\u00a0<\/strong>to\u00a0<strong>Benjamin Nugent<\/strong>, for his story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7175\/safe-spaces-benjamin-nugent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safe Spaces<\/a>,\u201d from the Summer 2018 issue. \u201cSafe Spaces\u201d tells the story of Claire, a coke-addicted college dropout who hasn\u2019t yet left town. With typical tenderness, Nugent chronicles Claire\u2019s aimlessness as she couch surfs, attends the occasional campus function with her maybe girlfriend, and eventually finds the support she\u2019s looking for in an unexpected place.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Nugent\u2019s stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and <em>The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review<\/em>. His first collection, <em>Fraternity<\/em>, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Kelli and Benjamin\u2014and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/25\/honoring-deborah-eisenberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Deborah Eisenberg<\/strong><\/a>, who<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will\u00a0receive\u00a0the\u00a0Hadada, our lifetime-achievement award\u2014from all of us at the\u00a0<em>Review<\/em>.<em>\u00a0<\/em>We look forward to seeing you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-spring-revel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on April 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re pleased to present the winners of the 2019 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and Terry Southern Prize for Humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[13422,10195,77,82,14,45186,1527,795,10474,6645],"class_list":["post-134176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-benjamin-nugent","tag-deborah-eisenberg","tag-dr-strangelove","tag-easy-rider","tag-george-plimpton","tag-kelli-jo-ford","tag-plimpton-prize","tag-revel","tag-southern-prize","tag-terry-southern-prize"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kelli Jo Ford Wins 2019 Plimpton Prize; 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