Valerie Hurley
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Awards
             
  • Finalist New Letters Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction, 2015
  • Honorable mention, 2012 New Millennium Fiction Contest
  • Fellowship:  2011 Summer Literary Seminars
  • 2010 New Letters Fiction Prize--- (finalist for four short stories)
  • Most Notable Essays of the Year” Best American Essays 2009 Editor:  Mary Oliver
  • 2008 Sarabande books—Mary McCarthy Fiction Prize---finalist for novel Hitler’s Vegetarian Cook
  • 2007 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards—finalist for novel- in-progress:  The Thirty-one Rules of Love
  • First place:  2007 Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize 
  • Listing:  Contemporary Authors, 2005
  • Invitation:  The MacDowell Colony, April, 2005
  • Residency: The MacDowell Colony (five weeks) March 2002 
  • Dewitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellow, 2001-2002 
  • First Place:  Fiction Prize 1999 The Indiana Review 
  • “Most Notable Essays of the Year” Best American Essays 1992, 1994, 1995 and 1997 
  • Teaching Fellowship: Wesleyan Writers’ Conference June 2001 
  • Residencies at the Millay Colony and Vermont Studio Center 
  • State University of New York English department Award For Excellence, 1987
                                                      Anthologies

Fiction:  Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories “Jasmine Washing the Hair of Pearsa” (First prize) Del Sol Press, autumn 2007 

Essay:  “Riders on the Earth” included in Writing the Future:  Progress and Evolution/Rothenberg & Pryor, editors The M.I.T. Press, 2004 

Essay: “Simply to Thee I Cling” included in Resurrecting Grace  Marilyn Sewell, editor Beacon Press, August 2001



                                                           Essays

"The Whiskey on Her Breath," The Sun,  September, 2008


© 2015 Valerie Hurley
Paintings by Teresa Davis, except for "New York from Brooklyn" by Colin Campbell Cooper


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  • DOMINANT IGUANA SEEKS SUBMISSIVE ZEBRA
  • MY MOTHER THE HAIRSTYLIST, MY FATHER THE PRIEST, MY UNCLE THE MURDERER
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  • Contact
  • Awards and Publications