Saturday, January 26, 2019

Writing Competitions: New American Voices Award

New American Voices Award: Post-Publication Book Prize for Immigrant writers.

Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research have created an award to recognize recently published works that illuminate the complexity of human experience as told by immigrants.

The prize will be juried by Reyna Grande, Alia Malek, and E.C. Osondu, who will choose three finalists and then award the prize to one. Finalists will be announced in summer 2019 and all three finalists and the judges will appear at the 2019 Fall for the Book festival, October 10-12 for the second annual presentation and to read from and discuss their work. The winning writer will receive $5,000 and the two finalists each will receive $1,000.

Eligibility:

  • Starting November 1, 2018, publishers can enter immigrant writers who have published no more than three books.
  • Entries must be prose: literary fiction or creative non-fiction. Please no journalism, plays, anthologies, or poetry.
  • Eligible books must have been (or will be) published between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019.
  • Four bound copies of the book (galleys/ARCs are acceptable) must be postmarked March 30, 2019 and sent to Fall for the Book, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive MS 3E4, Fairfax, VA 22030, along with a $20 entry fee. Checks can be made out to Fall for the Book, Inc.
For more information, go here.

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