ANNOUNCEMENT
The editors of PARTISAN
REVIEW
are pleased to announce
that the prize of $100, offered for the best short story sub–
mitted to them, will be divided between Mary King's "My
Father Brought Winter" and Delmore Schwartz's "The
Statues." Mr. Schwartz's story was published in the May
PARTISAN
REVIEW.
"My Father Brought Winter" appears
on the opposite page. Approximately 300 stories were sub–
mitted for the contest. The editors would like to cite as close
runners-up for the prize, Elizabeth Bishop's "In Prison"
(March issue) and James Agee's "Knoxville: Summer of
. 1915," which will appear soon.
Mary King writes from New Orleans: "The story which
you have accepted is the first thing I have had published. I .
was born in Angleton, Texas. I tried newspaper work for a
while and various other jobs one gets in depressions by ringing
doorbells, answering advertisements and visiting employment
agencies-stenographic and even secretarial. But I didn't like
them. Three years ago I came to New Orleans, where I am
now living in the French quarter. I settled down to writing
seriously, though I had tried it spasmodically before, only last
October."
Delmore Schwartz is already known to readers of PARTISAN
REVIEW.
His work has appeared in
The Marxist Quarterly,
Poetry,' New Directions, The Southern Review,
and other
periodicals. A volume of his verse and prose will be pub–
lished by New Directions press in ·the fall.
