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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., April 5 -- Southeast Missouri State University issued the following news release:
Budding novelists may try their hand at getting their first work published in the new Dorothy and Wedel Nilsen Literary Prize for First Novel competition sponsored by the Southeast Missouri State University Press.
As a tribute to his late wife, Dorothy, and a boost to aspiring, professional authors, Wedel Nilsen of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Elmurst, Ill, has made a gift to the Southeast Missouri University Foundation to launch the Wedel and Dorothy Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel.
The annual, national competition will be open to U.
S. residents with a completed manuscript in English who have not yet published a full-length fiction novel or novella,...