CRAFT 2024 Novelette Print Prize — Virtual Launch Party
CRAFT 2024 Novelette Print Prize
Virtual Launch Party
Thursday, December 19, 2024
4-5 p.m. PST / 7-8 p.m. EST on Zoom
Reading by Winner Philip Anderson
Q&A with Guest Judge Hanna Pylväinen
You are cordially invited to celebrate with us!
Attendees will be entered into a book giveaway!
The event is free and open to all interested,
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Advance Praise for Landing in Andonia
Snort-aloud funny, bizarre, and deeply moving, Philip Anderson’s Landing in Andonia is about the “flyover” American state of loneliness, longing, and rage that lives in us all.
—Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of HousematesTo read Landing in Andonia is to be delighted by language, to allow yourself to be swept into Philip Anderson’s masterfully crafted fever dream of a novelette. Playful in form, with laugh-out-loud dialogue and moments of surprising tenderness—I’ll read anything Anderson puts in front of me.
—Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza GirlLanding in Andonia is a sharp-eyed, deeply felt and deeply unsentimental excursion into the life of a town and some of its people. Put it on the shelf beside other innovative fictions about the middle of America like The End of Vandalism and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. Philip Anderson is a writer of exacting vision, sublime perversity, and surprising warmth. He’s also very funny.
—Sam Lipsyte, author of No One Left to Come Looking for You
Editor in Chief Courtney Harler will moderate the event.
Additional details provided upon registration via Submittable.
Our Prize Winner
PHILIP ANDERSON is a writer of fiction and criticism. His writing has appeared in Story, LIT, Archways, Carla, and other places. He has received fellowships from Lighthouse Works, Millay Arts, Lit Fest, and Columbia University. He lives with his husband and his two cats in Los Angeles, where he is currently at work on a satirical novel about art school. Find him on Instagram @philipxanderson.
Our Guest Judge
HANNA PYLVÄINEN is the author of We Sinners, which received the Whiting Award, and The End of Drum-Time, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and LitHub. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a Princeton Arts Fellowship at Princeton University, and a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. She has taught at the University of Michigan, Princeton University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently, she is on the faculty at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Philadelphia. Find her on Instagram @hannapyl.