Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award
Founded in 2018, Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research created an award to recognize recently published works that illuminate the complexity of the human experience as told by immigrants, whose work is historically underrepresented in writing and publishing.
Three jurors will judge all entries for the New American Voices Award and choose three finalists and then award the prize to one. Finalists will be announced during the summer and all three finalists and the judges will appear at the Fall for the Book festival in October for the 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.
If America is a country of immigrants as it is often described, then the quintessential American literature would be the literature of immigration... Hopefully these new voices will make us step back and look at ourselves with new eyes, and new hope and new meaning.
Submit to the Award
Starting December 4, 2025, publishers can enter immigrant writers* who have published no more than three books.
- Entries must be prose: literary fiction or creative nonfiction. Please no journalism, plays, anthologies, or poetry.
- Eligible books must have been (or will be) published between October 1, 2025 and September 30, 2026.
- Four bound copies of the book (galleys/ARCs are acceptable) must be postmarked March 31, 2026 and sent to:
along with a $20 entry fee. Checks can be made out to Fall for the Book, Inc.; entry fee may also be paid online here.
- For accessibility reasons, please also submit your book digitally. Please email them to:
kara [at] fallforthebookorg (Change [at] to @)
If no bound copies will be available by the deadline, you may submit digitally only.
*Writers should be immigrants to the U.S., living in the States. They can be first generation by either definition of the term (born elsewhere and immigrated to the U.S., or born in the states to parents who immigrated to the U.S.)
Questions? Contact Kara Oakleaf – kara[@]fallforthebook.org
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