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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1961

winner God in the Afternoon Griffith Wynne Watkins , 1990-1999 single work short story
— Appears in: God in the Afternoon : Selected Poetry and Fiction of Griffith Watkins 1990; (p. 13-19)

Mark Seville has recently been discharged from the hospital after a bone disease left one leg crippled. Feeling smothered by the attention around him, he flees to the ocean and rows out in a dinghy, where he rediscovers his peace.

Works About this Award

Out of the Bottom Drawer Gavin Casey , 1961 single work column
— Appears in: Overland , Summer (1961-1962) no. 22 1961; (p. 22-23)
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