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| The Nicholls Fellowship in Screenwriting | Updated July 09th, 2008 |
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Applicants must submit: - A completed application form. - One copy of an original feature film screenplay, approximately 90 - 120 pages in length. Submissions must have been written originally in English; translations will not be accepted. - $30 entry fee Submissions must be the original work of the applicant and may not be based, in whole or in part, on any other fiction or nonfiction material, published or unpublished, produced or unproduced. Entries may, however, be adapted from the applicant’s (or applicants’) original work, which should be noted on the application form. If the script is based on a true story, historical or contemporary, that should be noted on the title page. Collaborative work undertaken by two writers is eligible. Collaborative work by three or more writers is not eligible. A separate application form should be submitted by each collaborator. One collaborator should be designated the primary contact for all mailings. Writing partners selected as Fellows will divide the Fellowship stipend equally. The applicant's name, address, phone number or any other identifying information should not appear on the cover, the title page or any other page of the script. An entry fee of $30 must accompany the application. Entry fees will not be returned or adjusted. send: Complete MS looking for: Screenplay |
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| Bard Fiction Prize | Updated June 10th, 2008 |
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The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to a promising, emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application. In addition to the monetary award, the winner receives an appointment as writer in residence at Bard College for one semester, without the expectation that he or she teach traditional courses. The recipient gives at least one public lecture and meets informally with students. The creation of the Bard Fiction Prize, presented each October, continues Bard's long-standing position as a center for creative, groundbreaking literary work by both faculty and students. From Saul Bellow, William Gaddis, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison to John Ashbery, Philip Roth, William Weaver, and Chinua Achebe, Bard's literature faculty, past and present, represents some of the most important American writers of our time. The prize is intended to encourage and support young writers of fiction to pursue their creative goals and provide an opportunity to work in a fertile and intellectual environment. Last year's Bard Fiction Prize was awarded to writer Peter Orner for his first novel, set in Namibia, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown and Company, 2006). To apply, candidates should write a cover letter explaining the project they plan to work on while at Bard and submit a C.V., along with three copies of the published book they feel best represents their work. No manuscripts will be accepted. Applications for the 2009 prize must be received by July 15, 2008. send: Complete MS looking for: Novel specifically: Literary |
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| Humanitas Prize | Updated July 09th, 2008 |
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The HUMANITAS Prize was founded by Father Ellwood Kieser, C.S.P. who wanted to make a difference in the quality of entertainment. “People aren’t born fulfilled human beings,” said Kieser, “they become fulfilled through a long humanizing process.” He believed that film and television significantly contributed to this humanizing process by communicating values, forming consciences and motivating human behavior. HUMANITAS believes in honoring stories which affirm the dignity of human beings while also exploring the complexity and meaning of life. To qualify, a teleplay must have been written and produced in the English language for U.S. television. News and documentaries are not eligible. Material adapted from another medium may be eligible if, in the opinion of the judges, the adaptation is extensive. Such a program must have had a national telecast. To qualify, a screenplay for an English language feature film becomes eligible in the year in which it receives a national release. In the Sundance Feature Film Category an English language screenplay becomes eligible in the year in which the film is screened at the Sundance Film Festival. A feature length screenplay accepted into the Sundance Filmmakers Lab becomes eligible the year that the film is produced as a feature film. There is no entry fee or limit to the number of submissions. Send application, five copies of script, 1 brief paragraph storyline, and a DVD of the final film. The April 1 deadline has been extended to April 10. Prizes: Feature Film $ 25,000 Prime Time 90 minute $ 25,000 Prime Time 60 minute $ 15,000 Prime Time 30 minute $ 10,000 Children's Live Action $ 25,000 Children's Animation $ 25,000 Sundance Feature Film $ 10,000 send: Complete MS looking for: Screenplay |
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| Frederick Douglass Book Prize | Updated November 17th, 2008 |
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Each year the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition presents the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, a $25,000 award for the most outstanding nonfiction book published in English on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements. Publishers and authors are invited to submit books that meet these criteria. We are interested in all geographical areas and time periods. Please note, however, that works related to the Civil War are acceptable only if their primary focus relates to slavery or emancipation. Nominations for books published in 2007 will be accepted beginning in January 2008. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2008. send: Complete MS looking for: Non-Fiction Book specifically: African-American |
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| tags: $1000+ prize African-American any length contest creative non-fiction ethnic history narrative nonfiction non-fiction politics writing | |
| Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize | Updated July 20th, 2008 |
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In 1994, the Academy was selected by the New Hope Foundation to administer the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. Past recipients include Philip Levine, Sterling A. Brown, Adrienne Rich, Thom Gunn, W. S. Merwin, Marilyn Hacker, and Charles Wright. Submissions are accepted each year from April 1 to June 15. The 2008 contest is open to any book of original poetry, in English, published in the United States during 2007 in a standard edition by a living American citizen. A standard edition is 40 pages or more in length and 500 or more copies. Self-published books are not eligible. Publishers may submit as many titles as they wish. The publisher should send four copies of each book to the Academy, postmarked between April 1 and June 15, 2008. A $25 entry fee and entry form are required for each title submitted. Finalists will be notified and announced to the press in fall 2008. The winner will be announced in November. The Academy of American Poets will award the winning poet $25,000. send: Complete MS looking for: Poetry |
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| The Story Prize - PART 1 | Updated May 25th, 2008 |
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*PLEASE NOTE- THIS IS A TWO-PART LISTING. WRITERS SUBMITTING THEIR WORK TO THE STORY PRIZE MUST PUT BOTH PART 1 AND PART 2 IN THEIR WORDHUSTLER QUEUE TO HAVE A COMPLETE CONTEST SUBMISSION. We are unable to guarantee successful contest entry if you do not send BOTH listings.* Part 1 contains instructions for where to send 4 ms copies and the entry fee, Part 2 is an additional, supplemental copy to a different address. The Story Prize is an annual book award honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction with a $20,000 cash award. Each of two runners-up will receive $5,000. Eligible books must be written in English and first published in the United States during a calendar year. The 2008 winner will be presented with an award and $20,000 at a ceremony at the New School's Tishman Auditorium in February 2009 at 7:30 p.m. At this event, the three finalists will read from their books and discuss their work onstage with Larry Dark, the Director of The Story Prize. The finalists are announced in the second week of January each year. Eligibility for The Story Prize is restricted to collections of short fiction (at least two stories and/or novellas) by a living author, written in English. Eligible books must be first publication of the work in the United States during the calendar year, in either hardcover or paperback, and available for purchase by the general public. Collections must also include work previously unpublished in book form. Books published from January through June must be submitted by July 15. Books published from July through December must be submitted by November 15. SUPPLEMENTARY SUBMISSION REQUIRED: The Story Prize requires that one copy of the entry form and book be mailed to Julie Dark- SEE STORY PRIZE PART 2 listing. Send 4 copies of the entry form and book along with the $75 entry fee be mailed to Larry Dark at The Story Prize. If finished copies of books are not available, bound galleys are acceptable. E-books are not eligible for The Story Prize. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story |
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| The Story Prize- PART 2 | Updated May 25th, 2008 |
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*PLEASE NOTE- THIS IS A TWO-PART LISTING. WRITERS SUBMITTING THEIR WORK TO THE STORY PRIZE MUST PUT BOTH PART 1 AND PART 2 IN THEIR WORDHUSTLER QUEUE TO HAVE A COMPLETE CONTEST SUBMISSION. We are unable to guarantee successful contest entry if you do not send BOTH listings.* Part 1 contains instructions for where to send 4 ms copies and the entry fee, Part 2 is an additional, supplemental copy to a different address. The Story Prize is an annual book award honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction with a $20,000 cash award. Each of two runners-up will receive $5,000. Eligible books must be written in English and first published in the United States during a calendar year. The 2008 winner will be presented with an award and $20,000 at a ceremony at the New School's Tishman Auditorium in February 2009 at 7:30 p.m. At this event, the three finalists will read from their books and discuss their work onstage with Larry Dark, the Director of The Story Prize. The finalists are announced in the second week of January each year. Eligibility for The Story Prize is restricted to collections of short fiction (at least two stories and/or novellas) by a living author, written in English. Eligible books must be first publication of the work in the United States during the calendar year, in either hardcover or paperback, and available for purchase by the general public. Collections must also include work previously unpublished in book form. Books published from January through June must be submitted by July 15. Books published from July through December must be submitted by November 15. SUPPLEMENTARY SUBMISSION REQUIRED: The Story Prize requires that one copy of the entry form and book be mailed to Julie Lindsey at the Story Prize New York office. AND 4 copies of the entry form and book along with the $75 entry fee be mailed to Larry Dark- see STORY PRIZE PART 1 Market Listing. If finished copies of books are not available, bound galleys are acceptable. E-books are not eligible for The Story Prize. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story |
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| Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize | Updated October 22nd, 2008 |
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The year 2008 marks the eighteenth anniversary of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor documentary prize, a $20,000 award given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies. First announced a year after the Center's founding at Duke University, the prize was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor published An American Exodus, a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images and remains a seminal work in documentary studies. The Lange-Taylor Prize honors their important collaborative work. The Lange-Taylor Prize is offered to a writer and a photographer in the early stages of a documentary project. By encouraging such collaborative efforts, the Center for Documentary Studies supports the documentary process in which writers and photographers work together to record the human story. The prize is intended to fund collaborative work by a writer and a photographer in the formative or fieldwork stages of a documentary project. Submissions on any subject are welcome. Winners of the Lange-Taylor competition will have their work featured in Document, a periodical published by the Center for Documentary Studies, as well as in a virtual gallery on the CDS Web site. Collaboration is essential to the nature of the work this award supports; therefore, individual submissions will not be considered. More than two people may apply as long as one of the collaborators is a writer and one is a photographer working with black-and-white or color still photography. Individuals currently associated with the Center for Documentary Studies are not eligible for the prize. All required materials must be submitted under one cover during the month of January and postmarked no later than January 31, 2008. Each year a judging panel, including a prominent photographer and an accomplished writer, as well as individuals with experience in a variety of documentary arts, arts management, and publishing, is selected by the director and staff. Winners will be chosen and notified by mid-summer 2008. Public announcement of the winners will be made by the end of the summer. The award will be reported to the winners on a 1099-Miscellaneous tax form. It is the responsiblity of the winners to file their tax liability. Return of all submissions will be made after the final decision has been reached. Images can originate in any format, but must be submitted digitally on cd. (No e-mail submission of images is accepted.) All written materials should be compiled in the order requested below on white 8 1/2 x 11 paper with the writer's and photographer's last names at the top of each page. The writing sample should be double-spaced, while all other written materials should be single-spaced. An application fee of $35 is required. Enclose a one-page proposal letter describing the project and outlining work planned and a one-page statement about the collaboration of the writer and the photographer. This statement should consider how the writer and photographer plan to work together on a joint project. Consider also in the statement the relationship of the project's photographs and words. John Szarkowski observed that in Lange and Taylor's work, "the words and images . . . supplement[ed], [did] not repeat . . . each maintained its own integrity." Applicant is required to have a Writer's ten-page sample (double-spaced) on the proposed topic and in the style intended for project. If no work at all has been done on proposed topic, the writer should provide a sample demonstrating how the subject will be developed. send: Complete MS looking for: Non-Fiction Book specifically: Creative Non-Fiction |
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| tags: $1000+ prize art contest creative non-fiction ethnic history journalism low entry fee memoir narrative nonfiction non-fiction personal essay photography/art politics travel/outdoors writing | |
| The Drue Heinz Literature Prize | Updated October 17th, 2008 |
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The Drue Heinz Literature Prize recognizes and supports writers of short fiction and makes their work available to readers around the world. The award is open to writers who have published a book-length collection of fiction or at least three short stories or novellas in commercial magazines or literary journals. On-line publication does not count toward this requirement. The prize carries a cash award of $15,000 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press under its standard contract. The winner will be announced by the University Press in December or January. No information about the winner will be released before the official announcement. The award is open to writers in English, whether or not they are citizens of the United States. Eligible submissions include a manuscript of short stories; one or more novellas (a novella may comprise a maximum of 130 double-spaced typed pages); or a combination of one or more novellas and short stories. Novellas are only accepted as part of a larger collection. Manuscripts may be no fewer than 150 and no more than 300 typed pages. Stories or novellas previously published in book form as part of an anthology are eligible. Each manuscript should have TWO cover pages: one listing the title of the manuscript and the author's name, address, e-mail address (if available), and telephone number; and a second listing only the manuscript title. The author's name, other identifying information, and publication information must not appear after the first cover page. Each submission must include a list of the writer's published short fiction work, with full citations. Manuscripts may also be under consideration by other publishers, but if a manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, please notify the Press. Authors may submit more than one manuscript to the competition as long as one manuscript or a portion thereof does not duplicate material submitted in another manuscript. Manuscripts must be postmarked on or before June 30. send: Complete MS looking for: Novel |
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| Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards | Updated October 21st, 2008 |
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The author(s) must be regularly enrolled student(s) (undergraduate or graduate) at any University of California campus during the entire Fall Quarter 2007, Winter Quarter 2008 and Spring Quarter 2008. In addition, the writing awards are open to students who graduated in December 2007, provided that they were enrolled as full time matriculating students in the prior three standard academic quarters (i.e., Winter 2007, Spring 2007, Fall, 2007). University Extension students or students on leave of absence are not eligible. Only full-length dramatic writing in script form is eligible--equivalent of a three-act stage play, feature length screenplay, or a one hour (minimum) teleplay. CREDITS OF PREVIOUS WINNERS INCLUDE: THE GODFATHER, FORREST GUMP, SEX AND THE CITY, MUNICH, HAROLD AND MAUDE FIRST PRIZE $15,000 SECOND PRIZE $7,500 THIRD PRIZE $4,000 HONORABLE MENTION $2,000 & $1,000 Scripts must be accompanied by the following information: your full name, permanent address, telephone number, the name of your campus, your major, student number, status (undergraduate or graduate) and Social Security number. Please include official verification of enrollment for the Fall Quarter 2007, Winter 2008 and Spring Quarter 2008. Or if you graduated in December, 2007, please submit verification of enrollment for the prior three quarters before you graduated. Scripts not directly submitted to the School of Theater, Film and Television, UCLA, will not be included in the competition. send: Complete MS looking for: Teleplay |
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