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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 | |
| 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 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards | Updated September 02nd, 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. 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: Non-Fiction Book |
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| tags: $1000+ prize African-American biography contest creative non-fiction ethnic family history literary memoir narrative nonfiction no entry fee non-fiction politics religious/inspirational world literature | |
| 2008 Hayek Essay Topic | Updated November 17th, 2008 |
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Answer the following Question: In The Constitution of Liberty Hayek says that "we are probably only at the threshold of an age in which the technological possibilities of mind control are likely to grow rapidly and what may appear at first as innocuous or beneficial powers over the personality of the individual will be at the disposal of government. The greatest threats to human freedom probably still lie in the future." Has Hayek's gloomy warning been borne out by events, or has technology become more a force for liberating people from government? Answer this question in an essay and have a chance to win $2500. The Hayek Essay Contest is open to all individuals 35 years old or younger. Entrants should write a 5,000 word (maximum) essay. Essays are due on April 30, 2008 and winners will be announced on June 15, 2008. Essays should be submitted in English only. Prize Information: First prize: $2500 cash award + travel grant Second prize: $1500 cash award + travel grant Third prize: $1000 cash award + travel grant The Mont Pelerin Society is composed of persons who continue to see the dangers to civilized society outlined in the statement of aims. send: Complete MS looking for: Article |
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| Lambda Literary Foundation Debut Literary Awards | Updated October 28th, 2008 |
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Two prizes of $1,000 each are given annually for debut books of fiction by a gay writer and by a lesbian writer published in the current year. Submit four copies of a first novel or a short story collection (or bound galleys) with a $20 entry fee by December 1. A book can be nominated only by its author or by its publisher. Each nomination includes a completed nomination form, an administrative fee of $20, and four (4) copies of the book. Only one nomination form is required per book; however, additional fees and books are required if a book is nominated in two categories. Example: A debut novel may be entered in both the Fiction and Debut Fiction categories. One (1) nomination form, two fees ($40) and eight (8) copies of the book will be necessary to be judged in both categories. The book must be published and distributed (i.e. available in bookstores) in the United States during 2008. Categories: Fiction—Novels, novellas, and short story collections. Anthologies are not eligible. Memoir/Biography—Posthumously published authors or those with co-authors are also eligible. Anthologies are not eligible. Mystery— Novels, novellas, and short story collections. Anthologies are not eligible. Romance— Novels, novellas, and short story collections. Anthologies are not eligible. LGBT Anthology—Collections of fiction, poetry, drama, and/or nonfiction are eligible. LGBT Arts & Culture—Books about music, architecture, visual arts, dance, film, TV, popular culture, essays, literary criticism, etc. LGBT Children’s/Young Adult—Fiction, nonfiction, picture books, poetry, and anthologies—whose intended audience are young readers—are all eligible. LGBT Drama/Theater—Books and anthologies of plays, histories of theater, drama studies are all eligible. An auto/biography of an actor, director, or theater professional is eligible, but may be better placed in Autobiography/Biography. LGBT Erotica—Anthologies, novels, memoirs, short story collections whose content is principally of an erotic nature. LGBT Nonfiction—Books and subjects for the general reader, e.g. histories, politics, community organizations, humor, parenting, religion, spirituality, relationships, psychology, travel, etc. LGBT Poetry—Single volumes, selected and collected poems, and anthologies are eligible. Chapbooks are not eligible. LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror—Novels, novellas, short story collections, and anthologies are eligible. LGBT Studies—Scholarly work oriented toward academia, libraries, cultural professionals, and the more academic reader. Betty Berzon Prize for Lesbian Debut Fiction—Novels, novellas, or short story collections by lesbians who have not previously published a book of fiction. Anthologies are not eligible. Authors who have appeared in anthologies are eligible, as long as they have not published a volume identified as theirs alone. Betty Berzon Prize for Gay Debut Fiction—Novels, novellas, or short story collections by gay men who have not previously published a book of fiction. Anthologies are not eligible. Authors who have appeared in anthologies are eligible, as long as they have not published a volume identified as theirs alone. Bisexual—Fiction and nonfiction: novels, short story collections, anthologies, poetry, memoirs, cultural studies, public policy, law, history, spirituality, gender studies, etc. Transgender—Fiction and nonfiction: novels, short story collections, anthologies, poetry, memoirs, cultural studies, public policy, law, history, spirituality, gender studies, etc. send: Complete MS looking for: Non-Fiction Book |
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| tags: $1000+ prize LGBT YA art biography children's contest culture dating/relationships educational entertainment/pop culture family film/tv history humor literary low entry fee memoir music non-fiction parenting politics psychology religious/inspirational travel/outdoors | |
| Tara L. Masih Intercultural Essay Prize | Updated November 13th, 2008 |
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The annual Soul-Making Literary Competition is an extended community arts outreach program of the National League of American Pen Women, Nob Hill, San Francisco Bay Area Branch open to everyone, everywhere and looks for original, freshly creative and finely crafted works that embraces all creative interpretations of English poet, John Keats' statement: "Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making". The Tara L. Masih Intercultural Essay Prize should be up to 6,000 words. Judge's Comments: "I am looking for essays dealing with matters of culture, race, and a sense of place, either within the smaller microcosm of self-identity or within the larger environment of family, society and world interactions. I seek essays in the traditional form, my definition being the conscious shaping of nonfiction prose around a central idea or subject. In E. B. White’s words, you will be putting your "finger on a little capsule of truth,” using reality to point to your truth, not fiction". Do not put your names on your manuscripts, instead, enclose one 3x5 card typed, affixed with a printed label or carefully printed with your name, address, phone, fax, email, and title(s) of work(s) and particular category/categories entered. Young Adult entrants must indicate age on card and manuscript. Category must be indicated on 3x5 card as well as on manuscript.You may enter as many categories and as many times as you wish but you may not enter the same work in more than one category. Previously published works okay (except for Novel Excerpt); however, those winning awards in prior Soul-Making categories may not be resubmitted. Please enclose $5 per entry payable to NLAPW, Nob Hill Branch. Do enclose SASE in your entry package if you wish to receive contest results. Prizes awarded in each category: FIRST PRIZE: $100 SECOND PRIZE: $50 THIRD PRIZE: $25 Winners and honorable mentions will be invited to read at the subsequent awards event held every March at the Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, Civic Center. send: Complete MS looking for: Article specifically: Ethnic |
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| The Writers Place Anthology Contest | Updated July 11th, 2008 |
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The Writers Place announces a new literary contest focusing on poetry, fiction and non-fiction for our upcoming anthology, The 21st Century: Art, Business and Science. Themes may include (but are not limited to) global warming, energy, extended life span, political, social or economic policy effects, consumerism, nationalization, globalization, healthcare and technology and their effects on the individual, work and family. Editors are seeking poetry (up to 5 pages). Authors can be male or female, any age, nationality, race, creed or sexual orientation. Editors' aim is to present a broad view of current society. First-Place winner will receive a $75 cash award, certificate of achievement and publication. Second-Place winner will receive a $50 cash award, certificate of achievement and publication. Third-Place winner will receive a $25 cash award, certificate of achievement and publication. Winning authors will receive a free year's subscription to Poets & Writers Magazine Poetry: 3 to 5 pages per submission. No poem longer than 2 pages. All material should be the author's own original work. Completed submission form and release agreement to accompany submission, plus appropriate submission fee. Submissions received before March 1 are $10, between March 1-15, the fee is $15. send: Complete MS looking for: Poetry |
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| The Writers Place Anthology Contest | Updated September 02nd, 2008 |
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The Writers Place announces a new literary contest focusing on poetry, fiction and non-fiction for our upcoming anthology, The 21st Century: Art, Business and Science. Themes may include (but are not limited to) global warming, energy, extended life span, political, social or economic policy effects, consumerism, nationalization, globalization, healthcare and technology and their effects on the individual, work and family. Editors are seeking non-fiction (up to 7,500 words). Authors can be male or female, any age, nationality, race, creed or sexual orientation. Editors' aim is to present a broad view of current society. First-Place winner will receive a $75 cash award, certificate of achievement and publication. Second-Place winner will receive a $50 cash award, certificate of achievement and publication. Third-Place winner will receive a $25 cash award, certificate of achievement and publication. Winning authors will receive a free year's subscription to Poets & Writers Magazine Material must be in English. Prose: 2,000 to 7,500 words double-spaced. All material should be the author's own original work. Completed submission form and release agreement to accompany submission, plus appropriate submission fee. Submissions received before March 1 are $10, between March 1-15, the fee is $15. send: Complete MS looking for: Article |
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