Black Water Blues
Each year the Atlantic awards prizes for the best short story, essay, and poem which have been produced in those college classes using the Atlantic in their English composition. Ihe prize-winning short story for 1949 is by MONTY CULVER, who wrote it in his senior year at the University of Pittsburgh and under the friendly stimulus of his teacher, Mr. Edwin L. Peterson. It pleases us that Ada McCormick, without knowing of the Atlantic prize, recognized the merit of “Black Water Blues.”She bought it, released it to be an Atlantic “First,”and will publish it in Letter, her magazine of research and recognition in Tucson.