W. P. Osborn, chair of the Department of English
Fiction prize awarded to English Department chair
Feb 12, 2013
A short story collection by W. P. Osborn, chair of the Department of
English, was selected as the winner of the 2013 Unboxed Books Prize in Fiction.
Osborn’s Seven Tales and Seven Stories, whose “weird
obsessiveness and bizarre poetry” judge Francine Prose “found
irresistible,” was selected for publication in both print and digital
formats in fall 2013. The author will also will receive a $5,000 prize.
“I’m sure this prize and publication will open new possibilities
and help guide the writing part of my life for some time,” said
Osborn. “It’s difficult to believe my good fortune in beginning an
association with this new imprint and with the organizations it
connects to.” The prize is furnished by the deGroot Foundation, in
association with Provincetown Arts.
Osborn has lived in California, Ohio, New York, and Germany. His
fiction appears in such venues as Southern Humanities Review,
Texas Review, Hotel Amerika, Mississippi Review, Gettysburg
Review, and Beloit Fiction Journal.
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