Friday, September 29, 2017

Nonfiction Book Award: 2018 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award for Best Work of Literary Nonfiction

The 2018 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award for Best Work of Literary Nonfiction (no fee)

Deadline: December 31, 2017

Prize of $1,000 for best Creative Nonfiction published in the past three years: 2015/2016/2017. The Kansas Book Award is open to those living in Kansas and those with ties to Kansas.

There's no fee to enter. This year's judge will be essayist, commentator, poet, playwright and memoirist Mary Swander, recently the Poet Laureate of Iowa.

This competition is sponsored by Washburn University of Topeka, Mabee Library, and its Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection. For complete guidelines, visit our website.

The winner and the judge will be invited to Washburn University's Mabee Library in the Spring of 2018 for a reading and presentation ceremony.

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