{"id":803,"date":"2010-09-06T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T04:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/06\/amanda-davis-highwire\/"},"modified":"2010-09-02T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T23:52:41","slug":"amanda-davis-highwire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/06\/amanda-davis-highwire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/amanda-davis.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/interview-amanda-davis\/\">I met Amanda Davis in 1999<\/a>, and, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/000093.html\">as I&#8217;ve written before<\/a>, she was not just a wonderful writer but a gracious, welcoming member of New York&#8217;s literary community, and her death in a tragic plane crash in 2003 was felt keenly by everyone in the publishing community who knew her. Her friends at <i>McSweeney&#8217;s<\/i> established an bi-annual $2,500 grant in her memory:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This memorial award is intended to aid a young woman writer of 32 years or younger who both embodies Amanda&#8217;s personal strengths&#8212;warmth, generosity, a passion for community&#8212;and who needs some time to finish a book in progress. The book in progress needn&#8217;t be thematically or stylistically close to Amanda&#8217;s work, but we would be lying if we said we weren&#8217;t looking to support another writer of Amanda&#8217;s outrageous lyricism and heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/2010\/9\/1davis.html\">Applications are now being accepted<\/a> for the 2010 award. The previous winners are Shivani Manghnani, Hannah Pittard, and <a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/10\/jessica-anthony-selling-shorts\/\">Jessica Anthony<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Amanda Davis in 1999, and, as I&#8217;ve written before, she was not just a wonderful writer but a gracious, welcoming member of New York&#8217;s literary community, and her death in a tragic plane crash in 2003 was felt keenly by everyone in the publishing community who knew her. Her friends at McSweeney&#8217;s established [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}