Writing Competition: The Gournay Prize

EXTENDED TO MAY 22ND. The Gournay Prize will select one book length collection of essays each year to receive a cash prize of $1000 and publication in the 21st Century Essays series on Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press.

Submission window: March 15-May 22. Please note that all manuscripts submitted to the prize will also be considered for the 21st Century Essays series.

• The award is open to all writers for first books of essays. Writers may have published books previously in other genres.

• The award is open to writers in English, whether or not they are citizens of the United States. Translations are not eligible.

• Prior publication of your manuscript as a whole in any format (including electronic or self-published) makes it ineligible. Individual essays that have been previously published may be included in the manuscript. Each submission must include a list of acknowledgments of previously published work (title and magazine/journal/anthology) included in the manuscript.

• Manuscripts may also be under consideration by other publishers, but if a manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, the submission should be promptly withdrawn from consideration.

• Authors may submit more than one manuscript to the competition as long as one manuscript or a portion thereof does not duplicate material submitted in another manuscript.

 An entry fee of $28.00 must be paid for each submission.

For more information and to submit, visit our website.