Maria Semple won the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Fiction about Life and Love for Where'd You Go Bernadette. The award is currently looking for a new sponsor. In a statement, prize founder Andrew Saffron said that "for the time being the award is 'on hold'. I look forward to being able to announce a new sponsor, and more fun and parties in the future. Please--if anyone reading this has a friend or relation who is a lover of the arts, and could sponsor the award, please put them in touch with me to talk about a new and rewarding sponsorship opportunity."
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Mike Meginnis won Black Balloon Publishing's first annual Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize, which rewards a previously unpublished original work with $5,000 and a book deal, for his novel manuscript Fat Man and Little Boy. Meginnis's book will be published in October 2014.
