The nomination period is open for the 2019 Housatonic Book Awards, sponsored by the low-residency MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University in cooperation with the MFA Alumni Writer’s Cooperative (AWC).
The awards will honor one recipient in each of four areas: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and writing for middle grades and young adults. All books published in 2018 are eligible.
Any author, publisher, editor, or literary agent may nominate a title in any of the four genres before the June 15th deadline. The recipient in each category will receive $1500, will give a public reading, and will conduct a workshop with MFA students.
The mission of the awards is to promote excellent writing,to identify authors who serve as professional role models for writing students, and to develop the WCSU MFA in Creative and Professional Writing Program scholarship fund. Recipients of the awards will appear on the WCSU campus in January and August, during the MFA program’s residency periods, according to MFA Coordinator Anthony D'Aries.
Past winners include Dick Lehr, Victoria Chang, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Leslie Jamison, and many more!
The AWC and the MFA program operate the Awards and select the winners, following the Ethical Guidelines of the Council of Literary Magazines and Publishers. The deadline for nominations is June 15, after which the AWC will select finalists. Recipients of the awards will be announced in October.
Entry Fee: $25.00
Nomination guidelines are available here.
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