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Starcherone Books
Starcherone Books is a nonprofit, small literary press of innovative fiction founded by Ted Pelton, a National Endowment for the Arts grantee in Fiction, in 2000. During the publication's run from 2000- 2014, Starcherone published 36 titles, including two anthologies of short fictions and individual titles by 31 authors, 12 of which were debut titles by first-time authors. Starcherone Books received funding from the New York State Council for the Arts for five years. The press became a nonprofit in October 2003.

History
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The Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction
The Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, a blind-judged annual competition, was awarded 10 times, and over this time earned a reputation as one of the foremost predictors of new talent in contemporary writing.

Impact and Notable Honors
· Zachary Mason's The Lost Books of the Odyssey won the Starcherone Prize in 2007, and was thereafter named a finalist for the NY Public Library's Young lions Award, given to the best American work of fiction by a writer under age 35. Starcherone subsequently sold its rights to the book and it was selected as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2010 by the New York Times, and has since become an internationally recognized classic, translated into multiple languages.

·In 2010, Alissa Nutting's Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls became Starcherone's next biggest success. The story "Model's Assistant" was anthologized in The Norton Introduction to Literature. Nutting has subsequently done several fundraisers for Starcherone and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Opinionator blog. Unclean Jobs has been translated into Chinese and Spanish.

·Another Starcherone author who has frequently written for Opinionator is Thaddeus Rutkowski. His 2011 novel Haywire was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award and won Member's Choice from the Asian American Writers Workshop.

·Joshua Harmon's debut novel, Quinnehtukqut, was finalist for the 2008 VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize.

·Nina Shope's novella "In Urbem," from her Starcherone Prize-winning Hangings: Three Novellas won the 2006 University of Louisville/Calvino Prize.

·E.R. Baxter III's Niagara Digressions received a silver medal in the Environment & Ecology category in the 2012 Foreword Book of the Year competition.

·Joshua Cohen's A Heaven of Others had had translated editions appear in Germany and France.

·Kent Johnson's A Question Mark Above the Sun was named a Book of the Year by the [London] Times Literary Supplement.

Starcherone Books Titles (chronologically)
·Ted Pelton, Endorsed by Jack Chapeau (2000) ·Raymond Federman, The Voice in the Closet (2001) ·Nicolette de Csipkay, Black Umbrella Stories, illustrated by Francesca de Csipkay (2003) ·Aimee Parkison, Woman with Dark Horses: Stories (2003) ·Kenneth Bernard, The Man in the Stretcher: previously uncollected stories (2004) ·Nina Shope, Hangings: Three Novellas (2004) ·Jeffrey DeShell, Peter: An (A) Historical Romance (2005) ·Raymond Federman, My Body in Nine Parts, with photographs by Steve Murez (2005) ·Peter Conners, ed., PP/FF: An Anthology (2006) ·Ted Pelton, Endorsed by Jack Chapeau 2 an even greater extent (2006) ·Sara Greenslit, The Blue of Her Body (2007) ·Joshua Harmon, Quinnehtukqut (2007) ·Harold Jaffe, Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerilla Writer's Guide to Post-Millennial Culture (2007) ·Joshua Cohen, A Heaven of Others (2008) ·Raymond Federman and George Chambers, The Twilight of the Bums, with cartoon accompaniment by T. Motley (2008) ·Johannes Göransson, Dear Ra: A Story in Flinches (2008) ·Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey (2008) ·Donald Breckenridge, You Are Here (2009) ·Janet Mitchell, The Creepy Girl and other stories (2009) ·Raymond Federman, Shhh: The Story of a Childhood (2010) ·Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (2010) ·Leslie Scalapino, Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows (2010) ·Blake Butler and Lily Hoang, eds., 30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Authors (2011) ·Sarah Falkner, Animal Sanctuary (2011) ·Stacey Levine, The Girl with Brown Fur: stories & tales (2011) ·Thaddeus Rutkowski, Haywire (2011) ·E.R. Baxter, Niagara Digressions (2012) ·Gretchen E. Henderson, The House Enters the Street (2012) ·Kent Johnson, A Question Mark Above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem "By" Frank O'Hara (2012) ·Jonathan Callahan, The Consummation of Dirk (2013) ·Steve Katz, The Compleat Memoirrhoids (2013) ·Michael James Rizza, Cartilage and Skin (2013) ·Steven Hendricks, Little is Left to Tell (2014) ·Michael Joyce, Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden (2014) ·Aimee Parkison, The Petals of Your Skin (2014) ·Bryan Hurt, Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France (2015)