"Classic- a book which people praise and don't read."
The winners of Meridian’s 2010 Editors’ Prize Contest are included in the latest issue (25, May 2010):Poetry Winner: Josephine Yu, “Why the Lepidopterist Lives Alone”Fiction Winner: Allis Hammond, “The Faces” Both winners received a $1,000 prize and publication. The contest will be open again this fall.
Well-known writers who have suffered from writer's block include George Gissing, Samuel Coleridge, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Mitchell and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Writers who overcame writer's block and published new work after a hiatus of decades include Harold Brodkey, whose novel The Runaway Soul appeared some 30 years after it was first projected, and Henry Roth, whose first novel, Call It Sleep, was published in 1934; his second, Mercy Of A Rude Stream, did not appear until 1994.