Cinnamon Literature Award
Sponsor – Cinnamon Press
Deadline Date – Nov 30, 2024
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Cinnamon Press will award a prize for work across a range of forms and styles from writers anywhere in the world who are writing in English and producing work that is for adults, including novels, novellas short-stories, poetry collections and mixed genre works.
The submitted manuscript extract should be the first 10,000 words of a novel or 2 stories or 15 poems of up to 50 lines. Individual poems or stories may have been published online or in magazines provided the writer retains copyright.
The competition is open to all fiction writers and poets — whether debut or established writers. International entrants are welcome. Work co-authored by two two writers is welcome.
Cinnamon Press will award one publishing contract.
Weatherford Awards
Sponsor – Appalachian Studies Association
Deadline Date – Nov 1, 2024
Funding – $500.00 USD
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The Weatherford Awards, presented jointly by the ASA and Berea College, honor works published in the prior calendar year that “best illuminate the challenges, personalities, and unique qualities of the Appalachian South.” Awards are given in three categories: nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. The winners each receive $500.
Subject matter of the books must be Appalachian or the books must be set in Appalachia.
Anyone may nominate a book published in the current year. No self-published books will be considered.
The winners each receive $500.
Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest
Sponsor – Moment Magazine
Deadline Date – Nov 1, 2024
Funding – $1,000.00 USD
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The Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest encourages writers to submit stories related to Judaism or Jewish culture or history. Moment will award up to three prizes to outstanding works of unpublished short fiction with Jewish content, including $1,000 for first place.
No previously published works, or works already accepted for publication elsewhere, are eligible. Work may be under consideration elsewhere, but must be withdrawn from the competition if accepted for publication.
Moment will award up to three prizes to outstanding works of unpublished short fiction with Jewish content, including $1,000 for first place.
Art Omi: Writers Residency
Sponsor – Art Omi International Arts Center
Deadline Date – Oct 15, 2024
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Art Omi: Writers hosts authors and translators from around the world for residencies throughout the spring and fall. The program’s strong international emphasis provides exposure for global literary voices and reflects the spirit of cultural exchange that is essential to Art Omi’s mission.
Guests may select a residency of one week to two months; about ten writers at a time gather to live and work in a rural setting overlooking the Catskill Mountains. Daytime is reserved for writing and quiet activities, while evenings are more communal. A program of weekly visits bring guests from the New York publishing community. Noted editors, agents and book scouts are invited to share dinner and conversation on both creative and practical subjects, offering insight into the workings of the publishing industry, and introductions to some of its key professionals. Readings throughout the year invite the public to experience finished and in-process work by writers and translators in residence.
Art Omi: Writers welcomes published writers and translators of every type of literature. All text-based projects — fiction, nonfiction, theater, film, poetry, etc. — are eligible. International, cultural and creative exchange is a foundation of our mission, and a wide distribution of national background is an important part of the selection process. Application Requirements: CV/work history, work statement, writing sample, and letter of reference.
All residencies are fully funded with accommodations, food, local transport, and public programming provided. However, please note that Art Omi: Writers does not provide travel funds. Selected residents are responsible for funding their own travel or securing travel funds from a third party.
Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
Sponsor – Writers Guild of Alberta
Deadline Date – Dec 2, 2024
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The Writers’ Guild of Alberta provides a cash prize awarded for work that deals with some aspect of the city of Edmonton— its history, geography, current affairs, arts, or its people—or be written by an Edmonton resident. Edmonton residency is defined as the City of Edmonton, or the Municipality of Edmonton, not the Greater Edmonton area.
The Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize is awarded for work that deals with some aspect of the city of Edmonton— its history, geography, current affairs, arts, or its people—or be written by an Edmonton resident. Edmonton residency is defined as the City of Edmonton, or the Municipality of Edmonton, not the Greater Edmonton area. Works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama written for adults or children are eligible. The following types of works are not eligible: multi-author anthologies, books that are not in English or French, and unpublished pieces or manuscripts. Eligible works must have been published or produced anywhere in the world between January 1 and December 31, 2024.
Entries may be submitted by authors, publishers, or any interested parties.
The primary prize recipient in each category will be awarded $15,000, and two secondary prizes of $5,000 will be awarded to the runners up.
Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award – Children’s Literature
Sponsor – Northland College
Deadline Date – Dec 31, 2024
Funding – $500.00 USD
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The Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for children’s literature is given to a published book of nature writing—nonfiction or fiction—appropriate for children up to age fourteen. The book should capture the spirit of the human relationship with nature and promote awareness, preservation, appreciation, or restoration of the natural world for future generations. The winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for children’s literature receives a $500 cash award. (If the winning book has an illustrator, who is not the author, the illustrator will also receive a $500 award.)
The Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for children’s literature is given to a published book of nature writing—nonfiction or fiction—appropriate for children up to age fourteen. The book should capture the spirit of the human relationship with nature and promote awareness, preservation, appreciation, or restoration of the natural world for future generations.
The book should capture the spirit of the human relationship with nature and promote awareness, preservation, appreciation, or restoration of the natural world for future generations. It must also:
- Hold a 2024 copyright
- Be written by a single author
The winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for children’s literature receives a $500 cash award. (If the winning book has an illustrator who is not the author, the illustrator will also receive a $500 award.)
Francis Parkman Prize
Sponsor -Society of American Historians
Deadline Date – Dec 1, 2024
Funding – $2,000.00 USD
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The Society of American Historians’ 69th Annual Francis Parkman Prize Competition to Honor Literary Merit in the Writing of American History is now accepting submissions. The purpose of the award is to encourage and recognize the writing of history as literature. The prize, which includes a check for $2,000, will be awarded at the Society’s annual meeting in New York in May.
The Parkman Prize is awarded annually to a non-fiction book, including biography, that is distinguished by its literary merit and that makes an important contribution to the history of what is now the United States. Textbooks, edited collections, bibliographies, reference works, and juvenile books are not eligible. The copyright date of the book must be 2024; bound galleys or advance reader copies are acceptable as submissions.
The author need not be a citizen or resident of the United States, and the book need not be published in the United States.
The prize, which includes a check for $2,000, will be awarded at the Society’s annual meeting in New York in May.
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Sponsor – Academy of American Poets
Deadline Date – Feb 15, 2025
Funding – $1,000.00 USD
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The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award consists of $1,000 and recognizes a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year.
This award recognizes the work of a translator for a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year.
Any translator who meets one of the below criteria on the date of the submission deadline, in any given year, is eligible:
- U.S. Citizen
- resident of the United States for the ten-year period prior to the submission deadline, or
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Legal Permanent Status (LPS), or any subsequent categories designated by the U.S. authorities as conferring similar enhanced status upon non-citizens living in the United States.
Only books published in the United States during 2024 are eligible for the 2025 prize. Books must be published in a standard edition (48 pages or more). Collaborations by up to two translators are eligible.
A $1,000 award is given annually.
VCU Cabell First Novelist Award
Sponsor – Virginia Commonwealth University
Deadline Date – Dec 30, 2024
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The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award honors an outstanding debut novel published in the preceding calendar year. Symbolized by a three-dimensional compass, the award is a tribute to writers who have navigated their way through the maze of imagination and delivered a great read, taking the reader someplace new.
The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award honors an outstanding debut novel published in the preceding calendar year. Symbolized by a three-dimensional compass, the award is a tribute to writers who have navigated their way through the maze of imagination and delivered a great read, taking the reader someplace new. Winning novelists have written books that may be funny or sad, sarcastic or heartrending, but each is powerful enough in its own way to have moved initial readers and final judges toward the conclusion that, among a field of roughly a hundred submissions annually, its writer has achieved something notable and enduring.
Eligibility criteria is as follows:
- The submission must be the author’s first novel, published in calendar year 2024.
- The author may have published previous books in a different form, such as collections of poems or short stories, but the submission must be their first published book marketed as a novel. This may include hybrid works such as novels-in-verse and novels-in-stories. Collections of linked short stories not marketed as novels are not eligible. Graphic novels are also not eligible.
- The USA must be the country of first publication for the submission.
- While books with crossover audience appeal may be considered, we reserve the right to eliminate those with a primary audience of young (YA or middle-grade) readers.
- Books available in e-format only are not eligible.
- Self-published novels are not eligible, nor any novel published (via a hybrid press or otherwise) using an author’s financial investment or fundraising efforts.
- Books authored by alumni or affiliates of the VCU MFA in Creative Writing program are not eligible
- The winning author must agree to attend the award event, usually scheduled for November.
The winning author must agree to attend the award event, usually scheduled for November.
Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
Sponsor – Society of American Historians
Deadline Date – Dec 1, 2024
Funding – $2,000.00 USD
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The Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years to honor works of literary fiction that significantly advance the historical imagination. The winner receives certificate and $2,000.
The SAH Prize for Historical Fiction will be awarded in odd-numbered years to a book of historical fiction on a subject involving what is now the United States that makes a significant contribution to historical understanding, portrays authentically the people and events of the historical past, and displays skills in narrative construction and prose style. The copyright date of the book must be either 2023 or 2024; bound galleys or proof copies are acceptable as submissions.
The author need not be a citizen or resident of the United States, and the book need not be published in the United States.
The winner receives certificate and $2,000. The prize will be awarded at the Society’s annual meeting in New York in May.
