‘New Yorker’ fiction parody contest award winners, at last

by on August 21, 2012 9
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Six weeks back we unleashed a spate of literary creativity by announcing a New Yorker Parody Fiction contest whose main rule was, Tell your tale with empathy for a historical villain, and blame for the victim. The contest was inspired by Shani Boianjiu’s Israeli army story in the New Yorker, Means of Suppressing Demonstrations. Then we published the 25 entries in mid-July and said we’d have our winners soon. Well many of you have noted, we’ve dropped the ball. Our excuse is that the entries were all so good, or so many of them were so very good, that we didn’t feel right about playing judge to pick winners. Under the circumstances, it only felt fair to announce that all 25 entrants get a prize, a copy of Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza. Please forward me your address, at weissphilip@yahoo.com, and I’ll get you your prize. And if you already have Sacco’s book, let me know, we could send you Anna Baltzer’s Witness in Palestine, Moshe Machover’s Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution or Deepa Kumar’s Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire.

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Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
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  1. Annie Robbins says:
    August 21, 2012 at 10:36 am

    i wonder if danaa is going to offer to share her prize with gilad?

    ;)

    • Danaa says:
      August 21, 2012 at 3:05 pm

      annie – you think I should? doesn’t sound like these are the kinds of books giladg likes to read….but, unless I hear from him otherwise me claim my prize soon…

      That’s the beauty of Mondoweiss – a place where even whiners can be winners.

      If they choose to be….

  2. eljay says:
    August 21, 2012 at 10:58 am

    E-mail sent. Thanks, Phil! :-)

  3. Donald says:
    August 21, 2012 at 11:50 am

    Well, my entry sucked and I won’t claim my prize. I might buy Sacco’s book someday.

    There were some pretty good entries though.

  4. Taxi says:
    August 21, 2012 at 11:54 am

    LOL!

    Everybody’s a winner at Mondoweiss!

    Utopian!

  5. talknic says:
    August 21, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    Congrats all.

    Please donate the cost of the book to Mondoweiss or any other charitable org. thx