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Award for Best Book for Children

Peace Corps Writers Award for Best Book for Children This award was first given in 2001. Awards are presented to books published during the previous year. To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com, click on the book cover or the bold book title, and Peace Corps Worldwide — an Amazon Associate — will receive a small remittance that will help support these annual writers awards. The winners are — 0 2015 A Hitch at the Fairmont Jim Averbeck (Cameroon 1990–94) 2015 The Market Bowl Jim Averbeck (Cameroon 1990–94) 2012 The Megasaurus 5 to 7 years Thomas Weck (Ethiopia 1965–67) with Peter Weck and illustrator LenDisalvo and How Back-Back Got His Name 5 to 7 years Thomas Weck (Ethiopia 1965–67) with Peter Weck and illustrator LenDisalvo 2011 A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose 5 to 8 years Stephanie A. Stuve-Bodeen (Tanzania 1989–91) with illustrator Linzie . . .

Award for Best Photography Book

The Peace Corps Writers Rowland Scherman Award for Best Book of Poetry This award was first presented in 2009. Awards are presented to books published during the previous year. To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com, click on the book cover or the bold book title, and Peace Corps Worldwide — an Amazon Associate — will receive a small remittance that will help support these annual writers awards. The winners are — 2020 Altamont 1969 Bill Owens (Jamaica 1964–66) 2019 Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War Kevin Bubriski (Nepal 1975–79) 2018 A Silhouette of Liberia Photographs: Photographs: 1974–1977 Michael H. Lee (Liberia 1974–76) 2014 Timeless: Photography of Rowland Scherman Photos by Rowland Scherman (Peace Corps/Washington staff 1961–64) 2014 Somehow: Living on Uganda Time Douglas Cruickshank (Uganda 2009–12) 2012 Making Peace with the World: Photographs of Peace Corps Volunteers Richard Sitler (Jamaica 2000–02) 2010 . . .

Awards for Best Travel Book

Peace Corps Writers Award for Best Travel Book Awards for the Best Travel book were first presented in 2001. Awards are presented to books published during the previous year. To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com, click on the book cover or the bold book title, and Peace Corps Worldwide — an Amazon Associate — will receive a small remittance that will help support these annual writers awards. The winners are — 2023 The One-Way Ticket Plan — Find and Fund Your Purpose While Traveling the World Alexa West (Bulgaria 2010–12) 2020 Europe by Bus: 50 Bus Trips and City Visits Steve Kaffen (Russia 1994-96) 2019 Why Travel Matters: A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel Craig Storti (Morocco 1970-72) 2018 Writing Abroad: A Guide for Travelers Peter M. Chilson (Niger 1985–87) o 2017 Tales of Family Travel: Bathrooms of the World Kay . . .

RPCV Food Aficionado & Author Dies in Nova Scotia

Oct 21 2016

Dorothy Cann Hamilton, Founder of French Culinary Institute, Dies in Crash at 67 By Sam Roberts New York Times SEPT. 19, 2016 Dorothy Cann Hamilton (Thailand 1972-74) founded the French Culinary Institute in New York in 1984; it produced such famed graduates as Bobby Flay, Wylie Dufresne and Christina Tosi. Dorothy Cann Hamilton, a food aficionado who started a vocational course that evolved into one of the world’s leading culinary schools, died on Friday on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. She was 67. She died of injuries sustained in an automobile collision, said Bruce McCann, her cousin and the president of the International Culinary Center in California, the West Coast branch of the school that she founded in New York City in 1984 as the French Culinary Institute. She was the chief executive there. The police said her SUV and a truck hauling a camper collided. Ms. Hamilton, . . .

Larry Leamer’s (Nepal 1965-67) Novel Inspired by watching Donald Trump Eat a Hamburger

Sep 19 2016

By Barbara Marshall – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Sunday September 18 Stop us if this sounds familiar: Vincent Victor, a pugnacious businessman, playboy and bombastic developer of discount shopping malls called “Victor’s Golden Castle” creates a Miss Universe-like pageant called The Great American Breast Contest which leads to a starring role in a reality TV show called The Vigilantes, which he parlays into a run at the presidency. If that reminds you of Donald Trump, it’s meant to, says author and historian Laurence Leamer, author of “The President’s Butler,” a new satiric novel. Related by Victor’s butler, Billy Baxter, the story portrays Victor as a proudly anti-intellectual attention junkie who spews conspiracy theories and Twitter put-downs. After pummeling his mainstream political opponents to grab the GOP nomination for president, he faces a Democratic opponent he belittles as Blundering Belinda Ball. Any doubts about the object of Leamer’s lampooning are . . .

The Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award

About the Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award THE PEACE CORPS EXPERIENCE AWARD was initiated in 1992, and it has been presented annually to a Peace Corps Volunteer or staff member, past or present for the best depiction of life in the Peace Corps — be it daily life, project assignment, travel, host country nationals, other Volunteers, readjustment. Initially entries were short works including: personal essay, story, novella, poem, letter, cartoon, or song. In 1997, this award was renamed to honor Moritz Thomsen (Ecuador 1965–67) whose Living Poor has been widely cited as an outstanding telling of the essence of the Peace Corps experience, and beginning in 2009 memoirs were also considered for The Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award. Awards are presented to books published during the previous year. To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com, click on the book cover or the bold book title, and Peace Corps Worldwide — . . .

Award for Best Book of Poetry

Peace Corps Writers’ Award for Best Book of Poetry Awards are presented to books published during the previous year. To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com, click on the book cover or the bold book title, and Peace Corps Worldwide — an Amazon Associate — will receive a small remittance that will help support these annual writers awards. The winners of the Best Book of Poetry Award are — 2020 Strange Beauty of the World: Poems Bill Preston (Thailand 1977–80) 2019 Nature’s Poetry Elton Katter (Ethiopia 1962–64) 2018 Nuns, Nam & Henna: A Memoir In Poetry And Prose Larry Berube (Morocco 1977–79) 2017 An Ecology of Elsewhere: Poems Sandra L. Meek (Botswana 1989–91) 2016 Bartram’s Garden Eleanor Stanford (Cape Verde 1998–2000) o 2015 The Consolations John W. Evans (Bangladesh 1999–2001) o 2014 Strange Borderlands Ben Berman (Zimbabwe 1998–2000) 0 2013 The Land of Four Rivers: . . .

Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Awards

About the Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Awards THE PAUL COWAN NON-FICTION AWARD, first given 1990, was named to honor Paul Cowan, a Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Ecuador from 1966 to 1967. Cowan wrote The Making of An Un–American: A Dialogue with Experience about his time as a Volunteer in Latin America in the ’60s. A longtime activist and political writer for The Village Voice, Cowan died of leukemia in 1988. Awards are presented to books published during the previous year. To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com, click on the book cover or the bold book title, and Peace Corps Worldwide — an Amazon Associate — will receive a small remittance that will help support these annual writers awards. The winners of the Paul Cowan Non-fiction Award are — 2023 The Showgirl and the Writer — A Friendship Forged in the Aftermath of the Japanese American Incarceration by Marnie Mueller . . .

Clifford Garstang New Anthology: Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, Volume II Coming in September (South Korea)

Sep 07 2016

New Anthology Travels to Twenty More Countries Press 53 announces the publication on September 23, 2016, of Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, Volume II, an anthology of 20 stories by 20 authors set in 20 countries. With a theme of “It’s a Mysterious World,” this exciting addition to the Everywhere Stories series, edited by award-winning author Clifford Garstang (South Korea 1976-77), takes readers on a journey around the globe: to a wrestling match in Turkey, to a mysterious eye doctor in Guatemala, to a homeless man wandering the streets of Chicago, to a religious school in Samoa, to a drowning in Mexico, to a fortune-telling monk in Korea, to a miraculous hotel in Egypt, and to more stories in countries on every continent. With four contributors to the anthology, Cliff will appear at the Book Festival at George Mason University on September 27 at 1:30 pm. They . . .

Famous RPCV Journalists: The China Gang

Jun 07 2016

Although the Peace Corps has given a start to many well-known writers—Paul Theroux, Maria Thomas, Philip Margolin, Bob Shacochis, among them—it has fostered relatively few journalists and editors. One of the first journalist was Al Kamen, a Volunteer in the Dominican Republic during the early 1960s.Recently retired after 35 years at the Washington Post, Kamen wrote a column, “In the Loop,” and also covered the State Department and local and federal courts. He assisted his Post colleague Bob Woodward with reporting for The Final Days and The Brethren. Other Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) of the 1960s who became well-known journalists include Vanity Fair’s special correspondent Maureen Orth, an urban community development volunteer in Colombia, and one of the first women writers at Newsweek, and MSNBC HardBall host Chris Matthews, who served in Swaziland. There are more, of course, with that kind of media power who went into film and the arts . . .

Read This and Weep; PC/HQ and the Murder of Kate Puzey and other HQ Crimes

May 10 2016

Last January I wrote about Alan Toth (South Africa 2010-12) and his video project, Posh Corps. He wrote me, “Three years ago, I started working on the Posh Corps project. The idea was simple: to discuss the modern Peace Corps experience honestly. I wanted to cut through the mythology and the marketing, and capture the experience of volunteering in a rapidly changing world.” He has been doing that but recently he started to produce a series of Peace Corps reform podcasts. He recorded the interview with Kellie Greene in Washington D.C. at the end of February 2016. As Alan wrote me, “I spent the last few months tracking down documents and editing the podcasts. I’ve wanted to do stories about internal agency problems for some time. I do support Peace Corps, but I don’t support institutional incompetence. It seems clear that the agency has not focused on improving management for . . .

“Be a Literary Agent” article on AWP website by John Coyne (Ethiopia)

Apr 28 2016

CAREER ADVICE Be a Literary Agent John Coyne profiles six literary agents and offers suggestions for that career path for the Association of Writers & Writers Programs Website. April 2016 I called a novelist friend (Mary-Ann Tirone Smith Cameroon 1965-67) and asked her if she knew of any MFA graduates who were employed as literary agents and she replied, “MFA graduates are writers, not agents.” She was categorically right, but she wasn’t totally correct. Just as there are book and magazine editors who also write fiction, nonfiction, or poems, there are also literary agents with BAs in English and/or MFAs in writing. Some later change horses and become agents, putting their own literary knowledge into play when advising their clients. Others continue to write but work as agents for the sake of having a steadier income while finishing their next novel or waiting for the last one to be made . . .

Review — GAINING GROUND by Joan Velasquez (Bolivia)

Mar 30 2016

Gaining Ground: A Blueprint for Community-Based International Development by Joan Velásquez (Bolivia 1965–67) Beaver’s Pond Press 2014 $24.95 (paperback), $9.99 (Kindle) Reviewed by Bob Arias (Colombia 1964–66, 2011–13) • This is an awesome “how to” book, not a novel with only love and excitement . . . but a beautiful and exciting manual on how to create and develop a non-profit agency in Bolivia from Mendota Heights, Minnesota, a distance of 4,623 miles. In 1965 Joan Velásquez, a Peace Corps Volunteer, is sent to Cochabamba, a remote community in the Andean mountains of Bolivia. There she meets her future husband and NGO partner Segundo and his family, the Velázquez clan . . . all Quechua speaking indigenous people of the Inca Empire. Joan discovers that the community may not have much, it is extremely poor, but it is rich in cultural values that have been handed down for generations . . . primarily that family members help one another during difficult times. . . .

Maria Thomas Fiction Awards

About the Maria Thomas Fiction Award THE MARIA THOMAS FICTION AWARD, first presented in 1990, is named after the novelist Maria Thomas [Roberta Worrick (Ethiopia 1971–73)] She was the author of the well-reviewed novel AntoniaSaw the Oryx First, and two collections of short stories, Come to Africa and Save Your Marriage: And Other Stories and African Visas: A Novella and Stories, all set in Africa. Roberta lost her life in August, 1989, while working in Ethiopia for a relief agency. She went down in the plane crash that also killed her husband, Thomas Worrick (Ethiopia 1971–73), and Congressman Mickey Leland of Texas. Awards are presented to books published during the previous year. To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com, click on the book cover or the bold book title, and Peace Corps Worldwide — an Amazon Associate — will receive a small remittance that will help support these annual writers awards. . . .

This article about Rajeev Goyal (Nepal 2001-03) Written by Peter Hessler (China 1996-98)

Dec 20 2015

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker emailed this morning, December 20,2015, about The Business of Giving and remarks in his Introduction to a series of articles on ‘giving’ about Peter Hessler’s article on the Peace Corps, writing, “a volunteer in an eastern part of Nepal later becomes an expert fund-raiser for the organization, and within ten minutes at a dinner on Long Island raises eighteen thousand dollars.” That ‘volunteer’ was Rajeen Goyal (Nepal 2001-03). He then publishes (again) “Village Voice” an article written by Peter Hessler (China 1996-98) about Rajeen that appeared in the December 20, 2010 issue of The New Yorker. Here it is again, if you missed it the first time the piece was published. A Reporter at Large DECEMBER 20, 2010 ISSUE Village Voice The Peace Corps’s brightest hope. BY PETER HESSLER Rajeev Goyal in Namje, Nepal. Instead of introducing American values abroad, Goyal aims at the reverse. . . .

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