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| 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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| 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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| The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards | Updated October 17th, 2008 |
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The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognizes books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. They are books that open and challenge our minds. Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is the only American book award designated specifically to recognize works addressing issues of racism and diversity. Past winners have presented the extraordinary art and culture of peoples around the world, explored human rights violations, exposed the effects of racism on children, reflected on growing up bi-racial and illuminated the dignity of people as they search for justice. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is accepting entries through December 31, 2008. Awards are given for both fiction and non-fiction, with winners being announced in the spring. The awards are administered by The Cleveland Foundation. To be eligible, books must be written in English and published in 2008. Plays and screenplays are not eligible, nor are works in progress. Manuscripts and self-published works are not eligible. Works of poetry are eligible for the fiction prize. Upon receipt the books will be forwarded to the jury. All submitted materials become the property of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and will not be returned. send: Complete MS looking for: Poetry |
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| Summer Literary Seminars Kenya and Russia Contest | Updated August 03rd, 2008 |
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Three prizes, valued at $5,150 each, to attend the Summer Literary Seminars program in either Kenya or St. Petersburg, Russia, and publication in Maisonneuve, Walrus, or St. Petersburg Review are given annually for a single poem or a work of fiction or creative nonfiction. The prizes include airfare, accommodations, and tuition. Second prize in each category is full tuition, valued at $2,350, and third prize is a portion of tuition, valued at $1,175. send: Complete MS looking for: Poetry |
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| Summer Literary Seminars Kenya and Russia Contest | Updated October 22nd, 2008 |
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Three prizes, valued at $5,150 each, to attend the Summer Literary Seminars program in either Kenya or St. Petersburg, Russia, and publication in Maisonneuve, Walrus, or St. Petersburg Review are given annually for a single poem or a work of fiction or creative nonfiction. The prizes include airfare, accommodations, and tuition. Second prize in each category is full tuition, valued at $2,350, and third prize is a portion of tuition, valued at $1,175. send: Complete MS looking for: Non-Fiction Book specifically: Creative Non-Fiction |
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| Summer Literary Seminars Kenya and Russia Contest | Updated August 03rd, 2008 |
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Three prizes, valued at $5,150 each, to attend the Summer Literary Seminars program in either Kenya or St. Petersburg, Russia, and publication in Maisonneuve, Walrus, or St. Petersburg Review are given annually for a single poem or a work of fiction or creative nonfiction. The prizes include airfare, accommodations, and tuition. Second prize in each category is full tuition, valued at $2,350, and third prize is a portion of tuition, valued at $1,175. send: Complete MS looking for: Novel |
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| Fence Books Motherwell Prize | Updated August 04th, 2008 |
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A prize of $5,000 and publication by Fence Books is given annually for a first or second book of poetry by a woman. Submit a manuscript of 48 to 60 pages with a $25 entry fee during the month of November. send: Complete MS looking for: Poetry |
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| Walt Whitman Award | Updated August 20th, 2008 |
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The Walt Whitman Award is given to honor a poet's first book. Contestants must be living citizens of the United States who have neither published, nor committed to publish, a volume of poetry 40 pages or more in length and in an edition of 500 or more copies, either in the U.S. or abroad. Books on a smaller scale, such as chapbooks and limited editions, will not disqualify a poet. Manuscripts must be of original poetry, in English, by one poet. There are no restrictions on the style of poetry or subject matter. Translations are not eligible. Entries will be accepted only if postmarked between September 15 and November 15, 2008. Each manuscript must be accompanied by a completed entry form and a submission fee of $25.00. Please make check or money order payable to "The Academy of American Poets (WW)." Contestants who submit more than one manuscript must include an entry form and submission fee with each. Contestants should send only one copy of each manuscript. Manuscripts must be between 50 and 100 pages, typed single- or double-spaced. Multiple poems may not appear on a single page. Illustrations are not accepted. Contestants who have published poems in magazines may include those in the manuscript submitted, along with a page of acknowledgments. Two title pages must be submitted with each manuscript. One title page should include the author's name and address; the other should bear the manuscript title alone. The author's name must not appear on any other page of the manuscript. The winner will receive $5,000 and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Decisions will be made by May 2009. send: Complete MS looking for: Poetry |
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| Hackney Literary Award | Updated June 26th, 2008 |
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The Hackney Literary Awards, open to writers nationwide, are presented each year as part of the Birmingham-Southern College Writing Today Conference. Sponsored since 1969 by the Cecil Hackney family of Birmingham, the competition awards $5,000 in annual prizes for poetry and short fiction, ($2,500 national and $2,500 state level; 1st place, $600; 2nd place, $400; and 3rd place, $250) plus a $5,000 prize sponsored by Morris Hackney for an unpublished novel. The winners will be announced at the conference on March 13-14, 2009. Short Story Guidelines: Length not to exceed 5,000 words per story. The fee is $10.00 per entry. Short story entries will not be accepted before October 1, 2008, and entry deadline will be December 31, 2008 (postmark). Short Story manuscripts should be typed and doubled-spaced. Each entry submitted must have a cover sheet listing the title of the work, author’s name, address, and telephone number, and category of the work (short story, novel, or poetry). The author’s name must not appear on the actual pages of the manuscript. Manuscripts cannot be returned. A self-addressed, stamped envelope must be enclosed if you wish to receive a list of the winners after they are announced at the Writing Today Conference. Winners only will be notified prior to the Writing Today conference. Public announcement of winners will not be made until the conference. Refunds for withdrawn entries will only be given through December 31, 2008. If multiple entries are submitted, you need only send one SASE for contest winners. Only original, unpublished manuscripts may be entered. Poetry and Short Story entries from Alabama will be entered in the state contest unless specified for the national competition. ENTRIES CAN BE JUDGED IN ONLY ONE CATEGORY – EITHER STATE OR NATIONAL – NOT BOTH! send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Literary |
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| Hackney Literary Award | Updated June 26th, 2008 |
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The Hackney Literary Awards, open to writers nationwide, are presented each year as part of the Birmingham-Southern College Writing Today Conference. Sponsored since 1969 by the Cecil Hackney family of Birmingham, the competition awards $5,000 in annual prizes for poetry and short fiction, ($2,500 national and $2,500 state level; 1st place, $600; 2nd place, $400; and 3rd place, $250) plus a $5,000 prize sponsored by Morris Hackney for an unpublished novel. The winners will be announced at the conference on March 13-14, 2009. Novel Guidelines: Length is open. No provisions are available for publication; rights revert to winner to seek placement. The entry fee is $25.00 per entry. No novel entry will be accepted before June 1, 2008, and deadline for accepting entries is September 30, 2008 (postmark). Novel manuscripts should be typed and doubled-spaced. Each entry submitted must have a cover sheet listing the title of the work, author’s name, address, and telephone number, and category of the work (short story, novel, or poetry). The author’s name must not appear on the actual pages of the manuscript. Manuscripts cannot be returned. A self-addressed, stamped envelope must be enclosed if you wish to receive a list of the winners after they are announced at the Writing Today Conference. Winners only will be notified prior to the Writing Today conference. Public announcement of winners will not be made until the conference. Refunds for withdrawn entries will only be given through December 31, 2008. If multiple entries are submitted, you need only send one SASE for contest winners. Only original, unpublished manuscripts may be entered. Poetry and Short Story entries from Alabama will be entered in the state contest unless specified for the national competition. ENTRIES CAN BE JUDGED IN ONLY ONE CATEGORY – EITHER STATE OR NATIONAL – NOT BOTH! send: Complete MS looking for: Novel specifically: Literary |
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