Online competition and prize for authors from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)

Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) announces its AWP Award Series for Authors with the Opportunity to Win $5,500.

The award of the competition consists of the following:

1. Prize money.
2. A publishing contract with the participating press.
3. Award winners will be invited to AWP’s Annual Conference and Bookfair for a celebration and reading.
4. The award, and its corresponding prize money, are contingent on the author signing an agreed-upon contract with the participating press.
5. The winner of the Presses Donald Hall Prize for Poetry will receive $5,500.
6. The winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction will receive $5,500.
7. The winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel will receive $2,500.
8. The winner of the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction will receive $2,500.

• Only book-length manuscripts are eligible.
• The Award Series defines “book-length” as:
• Poetry: 48 pages minimum text.
• Short story or creative nonfiction collection: 150–300 manuscript pages.
• Novel: at least 60,000 words.
• Poems and stories previously published in periodicals are eligible for inclusion in submissions, but manuscripts previously published in their entirety, including self-published manuscripts, are not eligible. As the series is judged anonymously, no list of acknowledgments should accompany your manuscript.
• The AWP Award Series is open to all authors writing original works primarily in English for adult readers. Mixed-genre manuscripts cannot be accepted. Criticism and scholarly monographs are not acceptable for creative nonfiction, which the Award Series defines as factual and literary writing that has the narrative, dramatic, meditative, and lyrical elements of novels, plays, poetry, and memoir.
• To avoid conflict of interest and to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, friends and former students of a judge (former students who studied with a judge in an academic degree conferring program or its equivalent) are ineligible to enter the competition in the genre for which their former teacher is serving as a judge. 
• The current staff of AWP and members of AWP’s Board of Directors may not enter the AWP Award Series, and previous staff and Board members may not enter for a minimum of three years after leaving AWP or rotating off the Board, respectively.
• AWP makes every effort to vary the judges by region, aesthetic, and institution so that writers, if ineligible for one year, will certainly be eligible for other years. If contestants win in any genre, they may not enter the competition again in the same genre for the next five consecutive years.
• Your submitted manuscript must be an original work of which you are the sole author.
• Your manuscript must be submitted in accordance with the eligibility requirements, format guidelines, and entry requirements, or it will be disqualified.

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