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OXFORD, Ohio, Feb. 25 -- Miami University issued the following news release:
The Miami University Press' annual novella contest has had a record-breaking year, with more than 150 manuscripts submitted.
The latest winner of the Novella Prize, announced Friday, is Tara Deal's That Night Alive: I've Come Close. It will be published this fall.
Press editor Keith Tuma thinks they could see twice as many entries next year because of the recent success of author Garth Greenwell, who won the contest in 2010.
A revised and condensed version of Greenwell's winning novella, Mitko, makes up the first section of his debut novel, What Belongs to You. The book has been well received since it was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on Jan. 19.
Both The New York Times and The New Yorker have written about it, and a Publisher's Weekly reviews editor called it "the first great novel of 2016." Greenwell thanked Miami University Press and its staff in the book's acknowledgements.
"We found him," said Tuma, acting chair and professor of English at Miami who has been editor of the Press since 2004. He works directly with the authors, line editing their manuscripts, among other duties.
"I'm hugely proud of the books we've done. They've had a lot of success," he said. "They've won awards. They've been reviewed all over the world by The Guardian, The New Yorker, all sorts of poetry journals, fiction journals."
Not bad...