News
Fall 2009
USA Book News National "Best Books 2009" Awards
Winner, Fiction: Fantasy/Sci Fi
Cretaceous Dawn by L.M. Graziano and M.S.A. Graziano (Sept. 2008)
Finalists, Fiction: Literary Fiction
The Ghost Trap by K. Stephens (Sept. 2009)
Berlin by Michael Mirolla (Jan. 2009)
The Love Song of Monkey by Michael S.A. Graziano (Nov. 2008)
Leapfrog Author Receives Rona Jaffe Foundation Award
We are delighted that upcoming author Helen Phillips (And Yet They Were Happy, Leapfrog Press, spring 2011) has been named as recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. This award, which comes with $25,000, is given each year to honor the special contributions of women writers to our culture and society. The awards support women writers of exceptional talent, to make writing time available to them.
Helen Phillips is an adjunct lecturer in the creative writing program at Brooklyn College. She received the 2008 Italo Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction, the 2009 Meridian Editor's Award, and a Ucross Foundation residency. Her work has appeared in a number of journals.
Leapfrog 2010 Fiction Contest
The Leapfrog 2010 Fiction Contest opens on January 15. The 2010 contest will include categories for adult literary fiction and children's fiction. The final judge for adult fiction is Marge Piercy. The children's fiction judges will be announced shortly. See the contest page for details.
