Recent Winners
Academy of American Poets
WALLACE STEVENS AWARD
Afaa Michael Weaver of Hudson Valley, New York, won the 2023 Wallace Stevens Award. Weaver, whose most recent collection is A Fire in the Hills (Red Hen Press Press, 2023), received $100,000. The Academy’s board of chancellors judged. The annual award is given to a poet to “recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.” There is no application process. ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS FELLOWSHIP
Major Jackson of Nashville won the
2023 Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Jackson, whose most recent collection is Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022 (Norton,
2023), received $25,000 and a residency at the T. S. Eliot House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The Academy’s board of chancellors judged. The annual fellowship is given to an American poet for distinguished poetic achievement. There is no application process.
LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE
Ama Codjoe of New York City won the 2023 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions). She received $25,000; a 10-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York; and distribution of her book to members of the Academy of American Poets. Shane McCrae, January Gill O’Neil, and Monica Youn judged. The annual award is given for a book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. The next deadline is May 15. RAIZISS/DE PALCHI FELLOWSHIP
Moira Egan of Rome won the 2023 Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship for her translation-in-progress of Giorgiomaria Cornelio’s “Letters of Black Fire.”
She received $25,000 and a five-week residency at the American Academy in Rome. Jennifer Scappettone, Graziella Sidoli, and John Taylor judged. The fellowship is given biennially to a U.S. translator for a work-in-progress of modern Italian poetry translated into English. The next deadline is March 15, 2025.
JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD
Cyree Jarelle Johnson of Piscataway, New Jersey, won the 2023 James Laughlin Award for Watchnight (Nightboat Books). He received $5,000; an allexpenses-paid weeklong residency at the Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida; and distribution of his book to members of the Academy of American Poets.
Leila Chatti, John Murillo, and Sam
Sax judged. The annual award is given for a poet’s second collection, forthcoming in the next calendar year. The next deadline is May 15.
AMBROGGIO PRIZE
Margarita Pintado Burgos of San Diego, California, and Alejandra Quintana Arocho of New York City won the 2023 Ambroggio Prize for Arocho’s translation of Burgos’s Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat. They received $1,000, and Arocho’s translation will be published by University of Arizona Press in 2024. Achy Obejas judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. (SEE DEADLINES.)
HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARD
Stephanie McCarter of Sewanee, Tennessee, won the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for her translation from the Latin of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics). She received $1,000. Anna Deeny Morales judged. The annual award is given for a book of poetry translated from any language into English and published in the United States during the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038. Nikay Paredes, Programs Director. awards@poets.org poets.org/academy-american-poets/american -poets-prizes
Airlie Press
AIRLIE PRIZE
Mia Kang of Philadelphia won the 2023 Airlie Prize for All Empires Must. She received $1,000, and her book will be published by Airlie Press in early 2025.
The editors judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
Airlie Press, Airlie Prize, P.O. Box 13325, Portland, OR 97213. airliepress@gmail.com airliepress.org
Arts & Letters
ARTS & LETTERS PRIZES
Owen Lewis of New York City won the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry for “More Than Twice,” “Something’s Wrong,” and “Waking This New Year’s Day.” Patricia Grace King of Durham, England, won the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction for “Pax Americana.” Jonathan VanBallenberghe of Tucson won the Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction for “Winchester Street: Living With My Father’s Suicide.” They each received $1,000, and their winning works were published in the 25th anniversary issue of Arts & Letters. Rodney Jones judged in poetry, Francesca Ekwuyasi judged in fiction, and Sue William Silverman judged in creative nonfiction. The annual awards are given for a group of poems, a short story, and an essay. The next deadline is March 31. Arts & Letters, Arts & Letters Prizes, Georgia College, Campus Box 89, Milledgeville, GA 31061. (478) 445-1289. Laura Newbern, Editor. al.journal@gcsu.edu artsandletters.gcsu.edu
Austin Community College
BALCONES PRIZES
No‘u Revilla of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, won the 26th annual Balcones Poetry
Prize for her poetry collection, Ask the Brindled (Milkweed Editions). Sequoia Maner judged. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan of Washington, D.C., won the 13th annual Balcones Fiction Prize for her novel,
Big Girl (Liveright). Charlotte Gullick judged. The winners each received $1,500. The annual awards honor a book of poetry and a book of fiction published during the previous year.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
Austin Community College, Balcones Prizes, Creative Writing Department, 6101 Highland Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78752. balcones@austincc.edu sites.austincc.edu/crw/balcones-prizes
Backwaters Press
BACKWATERS PRIZE IN POETRY
Julie Choffel of Hartford won the 2023 Backwaters Prize in Poetry for Dear Wallace. She received $2,000, and her book will be published by Backwaters Press in fall 2024. Brandel France de Bravo of Washington, D.C., received the honorable mention for Locomotive Cathedral. She received $1,000, and her book will be published by Backwaters Press in spring 2025. Hilda Raz judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is May 1. Backwaters Press, Backwaters Prize in Poetry, University of Nebraska Press, 1225 L Street, Suite 200, Lincoln, NE 68588. Courtney Ochsner, Managing Editor. cochsner2@unl.edu nebraskapress.unl.edu/series/the-backwaters -prize-in-poetry
Bard College
BARD FICTION PRIZE
Zain Khalid of New York City won the 2024 Bard Fiction Prize for his novel, Brother Alive (Grove Press, 2022). He will receive $30,000 and a residency at Bard College in fall 2024, which includes an appointment as writer-inresidence for the semester. The annual award is given to a promising emerging fiction writer who is a U.S. citizen and age 39 or younger at the time of application. The next deadline is June 1.
Bard College, Bard Fiction Prize, 30 Campus Road, P.O. Box 5000,
(845) 758-7087. bfp@bard.edu bard.edu/bfp
Bauhan Publishing
MAY SARTON NEW HAMPSHIRE POETRY PRIZE
Heather Treseler of Newton, Massachusetts, won the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize for Auguries & Divinations. She will receive $1,000, publication by Bauhan Publishing in April 2024, and 50 author copies. Brad Crenshaw judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is June 30.
Bauhan Publishing, May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, P.O. Box 117, Peterborough, NH 03458. contest@bauhanpublishing.com bauhanpublishing.com/contests
Beloit Poetry Journal
CHAD WALSH CHAPBOOK SERIES
TC Tolbert of Tucson won the 2023 Chad Walsh Chapbook Series for The Quiet Practices. Tolbert received $2,500, publication of the chapbook by Beloit Poetry Journal, and 50 author copies. The editors judged. The annual award is given for a poetry chapbook. The next deadline is November 30.
Beloit Poetry Journal, Chad Walsh Chapbook Series, P.O. Box 1450, Windham, ME 04062.
Aumaine Rose Smith, Operations Manager. bpj@bpj.org bpj.org/submit/chad-walsh-chapbook-series -guidelines
Bitter Oleander Press
LIBRARY OF POETRY AWARD
Red Hawk (Robert Moore) of Monticello, Arkansas, won the 2023 Library of Poetry Award for Book of Lamentations. He received $1,500, and his collection will be published by Bitter Oleander Press in January 2024. The editors judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is June 15.
Bitter Oleander Press, Library of Poetry Award, 4983 Tall Oaks Drive, Fayetteville, NY 13066. info@bitteroleander.com bitteroleander.com/contest.html
Black Lawrence Press
BIG MOOSE PRIZE
Leslie Li of New York City won the 2023 Big Moose Prize for The Forest for the Trees. She received $1,000, and her novel will be published by Black Lawrence Press in August 2024. The editors judged. The annual award is given for a novel. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Black Lawrence Press, Big Moose Prize, 279 Claremont Avenue, Mount Vernon, NY 10552. (412) 559-6649.
Diane Goettel, Executive Editor. diane@blacklawrencepress.com blacklawrence.com/submissions-and-contests/ the-big-moose-prize
Boulevard
SHORT FICTION CONTEST FOR EMERGING WRITERS
Trent Lewin of Ottawa, Canada, won the 2022 Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers for “The Reach.” He received $1,500, and his story was published in the Fall 2023 issue of Boulevard. The editors judged. The
annual award is given for a short story by a writer who has not published a book with a nationally distributed press. The next deadline is December 31, 2024.
Boulevard, Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers, 3829 Hartford Street, St. Louis, MO 63116.
Jessica Rogen, Editor. editors@boulevardmagazine.org boulevardmagazine.org
Caine Prize for African Writing
Woppa Diallo and Mame Bougouma Diene, both of Senegal, won the 2023 Caine Prize for African Writing for “A Soul of Small Places.” They received £10,000 (approximately $12,425). The finalists were Yejide Kilanko of Nigeria for “This Tangible Thing”; Yvonne Kusiima of Uganda for “Weaving”; Ekemini Pius of Nigeria for “Daughters, By Our Hands”; and Tlotlo Tsamaase of Botswana for “Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition).” They each received £500 (approximately $621), and their stories were published in the 2023 Caine Prize anthology. Fareda Banda, Jendella Benson, Edwige-Renée Dro, Kadija George Sesay, and Warsan Shire judged. The annual award is given for a previously published short story by a writer of African descent. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set.
Caine Prize for African Writing, 66 Great Suffolk Street, London SE1 0BL, England. info@caineprize.com caineprize.com
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Sandra Cisneros of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, won the 2023 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. Cisneros, whose most recent book is Woman Without Shame (Knopf, 2022), received $10,000. The annual award honors an author whose complete body of work reflects the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation’s mission to “foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.” There is no application process.
LITERARY AWARDS
Geraldine Brooks of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, won the 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction for her novel Horse (Viking). Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels, both of Washington, D.C., won in nonfiction for their book His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Viking). They each received $5,000. Lily Brooks-Dalton of Los Angeles won the runner-up award in fiction for her novel The Light Pirate (Grand Central Publishing), and Adam Hochschild of Berkeley, California, won the runner-up award in nonfiction for his book American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (Mariner Books). They each received $5,000. Lisa Page and Jon Parrish Peede judged in fiction, and Peter Ho Davies and Lou Ann Walker judged in nonfiction. The annual awards are given to honor books published in the previous year that “foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.” (SEE DEADLINES.)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, P.O. Box 461, Wright Brothers Branch, Dayton, OH 45409. (937) 298-5072.
Sharon Rab, Founder. sharonrab@woh.rr.com daytonliterarypeaceprize.org
The de Groot Foundation
COURAGE TO WRITE GRANTS
Ten writers received the 2023 de
Groot Foundation Courage to Write grants for manuscripts-in-progress. They are poet Ja’net Danielo of Long Beach, California, for “Migration”; novelists Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham of Copenhagen for “What Time Is it Mr. Wolf?”, Sahar Delijani of New York City for “The Luminous Blue,” Lydia Kim of San Francisco for “The Divers,” Ryan D. Matthews of New York City for “Country Music,” Caroline Schmidt of Phoenix for “The Understudy,” Camille Wanliss of New York City for “An Ornament and a Disgrace,” Max Watman of Powhatan, Virginia, for “Tomorrow, the War”; and memoirists Leila Christine Nadir of Farmington, Maine, for “Afghan Americana: An Intimate Geopolitical Memoir” and Stephanie Cuepo Wobby of Milton, Vermont, for “To the Other Side of the Sea.” They each received $7,000. Twenty writers also received Writer of Note grants. They are poets Alfredo Aguilar of Lockhart, Texas, for “Yield to No Country,” Joshua Aiken of New Haven, Connecticut, for “Wear a Clean Second Face,” Emily Hockaday of New York City for “Blood Music,” Preeti Kaur Rajpal of Minneapolis for “membery,” and Cocoa Michelle Williams of Marietta, Georgia, for “Syrup”; novelists Eva Freeman of New York
City for “Jericho,” Anndee Hochman of Philadelphia for “My Plural Is People,” Sakinah Hofler of Newark, New Jersey, for “The Missing,” Brian Malloy of Minneapolis for “In the Boundary Waters,” Morris McLennan of Chicago for “The Shapeshifters,” Nikesha Elise Williams of Jacksonville, Florida, for “The Seven Daughters of Dupree,” Akilah Wise of Atlanta for “Daughters of Dahomey,” and Christina Wood of Athens, Georgia, for “Escapes”; graphic novelist Melissa Chan of Berlin and Los Angeles for “You Must Take Part in Revolution”; short story writer Gary V. Powell of Cornelius, North Carolina, for “Men in Love”; and nonfiction writers Christina Chiu of New York City for “Failing to Thrive: A Story About Race and Gender Bias in Medicine,” Alona Kharina of Sumy, Ukraine, for “No One Is Home,”
Amanda Mei Kim of San Mateo, California, for “Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land,” Caren Lissner of Hoboken, New Jersey, for “Wise Fool,” and Shelley Stoehr of West Haven, Connecticut, for “Girls! Girls! Girls!”. They each received $1,500. The annual grants are given to emerging poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers with manuscripts-in-progress and “for whom a monetary boost could help further or complete the project.” (SEE DEADLINES.) LANDO GRANTS
Three writers received 2023 Lando grants for manuscripts-in-progress. They are nonfiction writers Summer Awad of Ames, Iowa, for “No English, Swahili,” Benjamin Mauk of Berlin for “The Fugitive World,” and Molly O’Toole of Washington, D.C., for “The Route: The Untold Story of the New Migrant Underground.” They each received $7,000. Three writers also received Lando Writer of Note grants for manuscripts-in-progress. They are novelist Vanessa Hua of San Francisco for “El Nido” and nonfiction writers Seth Berkman of New York City for “Piners and Prophets: One American
Town’s Radical Transformation” and Lauren Markham of Berkeley, California, for “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.” They each received $1,500. The annual grants are given to fiction or nonfiction writers “exploring the issues and challenges of immigration, migration, and/or the refugee experience” in manuscripts-inprogress. (SEE DEADLINES.)
The de Groot Foundation,
15811 Collins Avenue, Unit 1101,
North Miami Beach, FL 33160. grants@degrootfoundation.org degrootfoundation.org
French-American Foundation
TRANSLATION PRIZE
Juliet Sutcliffe of Toronto won the
2023 Translation Prize in fiction for her translation of Stéfanie Clermont’s novel, The Music Game (Biblioasis).
She received $10,000. The Translation Prize in nonfiction was split between Kieran Aarons of Chicago and Cédrine Michel of Hamilton, Ontario, for their co-translation of Elsa Dorlin’s book
Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence (Verso Books). Aarons and Michel each received $5,000. The annual awards are
SAMYAK SHERTOK
ELIJAH BEAN
SADIA HASSAN
given for books of fiction and nonfiction translated from French into English and published during the previous year. The next deadline is January 17, 2025.
French-American Foundation, Translation Prize, 28 West 44th Street, Suite 912,
New York, NY 10036. Elizabeth McGehee, Director of Programs. emcgehee@frenchamerican.org frenchamerican.org/initiatives/translation-prize
Gemini Magazine
SHORT STORY CONTEST
Teresa Burns Gunther of Oakland won the 2023 Short Story Contest for “Conflagration.” She received $1,000, and her story was published in the August 2023 issue of Gemini Magazine. The editors judged. The annual award is given for a short story. The next deadline is April 1.
Gemini Magazine, Short Story Contest, P.O. Box 1485, Onset, MA 02558.
(339) 309-9757. David A. Bright, Editor. editor@gemini-magazine.com gemini-magazine.com
Ghost Story
SCREW TURN FLASH FICTION COMPETITION
Brid Cummings of Adelaide, Australia, won the Winter 2023 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition for her story “The Lair.” She received $1,000, and her story was published on the Ghost Story website and will also be published in the print anthology 21st Century Ghost Stories— Volume III. The editors judged. The award is given biannually for a work of flash fiction with a supernatural or magical realist theme. (SEE DEADLINES.) Ghost Story, Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, P.O. Box 601, Union, ME 04862. Paul Guernsey, Editor. editor@theghoststory.com theghoststory.com/flash-fiction-competition
Inlandia Institute
ELIUD MARTÍNEZ PRIZE
The late René Solivan won the second annual Eliud Martínez Prize for his novel, Search Party. He received $1,000 and publication by Inlandia Books. Isabel Quintero judged. The annual award is given for a book of fiction or creative nonfiction by a writer who identifies as Hispanic, Latino/a/e/x, or Chicana/o/e/x. (SEE DEADLINES.) Inlandia Institute, Eliud Martínez Prize, 75 E. Ninth Street, Upland, CA 91786. (951) 790-2458. Maria Fernanda Vidaurrazaga, Publications Coordinator. publications@inlandiainstitute.org inlandiainstitute.org/books/the-eliud-martinez -prize
James Jones Literary Society
FIRST NOVEL FELLOWSHIP
Catherine Carberry of Woodstock,
New York, won the 32nd annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship for her manuscript “Bitter Tropic.” She received $10,000. The first runner-up was Anna Badkhen of Philadelphia for “The Sound Keeps Coming,” and the second runnerup was Jennifer Deane of Clifton, New Jersey, for “The Eleventh Horse.” Badkhen received $3,000, and Deane received $2,000. J. Michael Lennon, Laurie Loewenstein, and Nancy McKinley judged. The annual award is given for a novel-in-progress that honors “the spirit of unblinking honesty, determination, and insight into modern culture as exemplified by (the writings of) James Jones.” (SEE DEADLINES.)
James Jones Literary Society,
First Novel Fellowship, Wilkes University, Creative Writing Program, 84 West South Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. jamesjonesfirstnovel@wilkes.edu wilkes.edu/academics/graduate-programs/ creative-writing-ma-mfa/james-jones-fellowship -contest.aspx
Kirkus Reviews
KIRKUS PRIZES
James McBride of Lambertville, New Jersey, and Héctor Tobar of Los Angeles won the 2023 Kirkus Prizes. McBride won in fiction for his novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Riverhead
Books), and Tobar won in nonfiction for his work of criticism and memoir, Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” (MCD Books). They each received $50,000. Rosa Hernandez, Laurie Muchnick, and Michael Schaub judged in fiction. Mark Athitakis, Anjali Enjeti, and Eric Liebetrau judged in nonfiction. The annual awards are given for a book of fiction and a book of nonfiction that were published in the previous year and received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews. There is no application process.
Kirkus Reviews, 65 West 36th Street, Suite 700, New York, NY 10018. Tom Beer, Editor in Chief. tbeer@kirkus.com kirkusreviews.com/prize
Laura Boss Poetry Foundation
LAURA BOSS NARRATIVE POETRY AWARD Miriam Levine of Concord, New Hampshire, won the 2023 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award for Forget About Sleep. She received $5,000, and her poetry collection will be published by New York Quarterly Books in spring 2024. She will also receive 25 author copies and be invited to give a featured reading at the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey. José Antonio Rodríguez judged. The annual award is given for a manuscript of narrative poetry. The next deadline is March 31.
Laura Boss Poetry Foundation,
Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award,
141 Madison Avenue, Clifton, NJ 07011. Barry Boss, Treasurer. laurabosspoetryfoundation@gmail.com laurabosspoetryfoundation.org/2023-award
Little Tokyo Historical Society
IMAGINE LITTLE TOKYO SHORT STORY CONTEST
DC Palter of Los Angeles won the 2023 Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest for “The Last Days of the Dandy Lion” and Miho Hirayama of Nagoya, Japan, won for “Color.” Palter won in the English language category and Hirayama won in the Japanese language category. They each received $1,000 and publication in Rafu Shimpo and on the Discover Nikkei and Little Tokyo Historical Society websites. Alden M. Hayashi, Jeanne Sakata, and Iris Yamashita judged in the English language category. Keiko Fukuda, Yuko Kaifu, and Mitsuyasu Sakai judged in the Japanese language category. The annual awards are given for short stories that take place in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles. (SEE DEADLINES.) Little Tokyo Historical Society,
Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest, 319 East Second Street, Suite 203,
Los Angeles, CA 90012. imaginelittletokyo@gmail.com littletokyohs.org
Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
Will Hall of London won the 2023
Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition for “Emails From an Abandoned Coast.” He received $1,500 and publication on the competition website. The annual award is given for a short story by a writer whose fiction has not appeared in a nationally distributed publication with a circulation over 5,000. The next deadline is April 1.
Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, 1501 4th Avenue,
Seattle, WA 98101. shortstorykeywest@hushmail.com shortstorycompetition.com
Lost Horse Press
IDAHO PRIZE FOR POETRY
Anna Leigh Knowles of Littleton, Colorado, won the 2023 Idaho Prize for Poetry for In the Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds. She received $1,000, and her collection will be published by Lost Horse Press in spring 2024. She will also receive 20 author copies. Roy Bentley judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is May 15.
Lost Horse Press, Idaho Prize for Poetry, 1025 S. Garry Road, Liberty Lake, WA 99019. (208) 597-3008. losthorsepress@mindspring.com losthorsepress.org
MacArthur Foundation
MACARTHUR FELLOWSHIPS
Poet Ada Limón of Lexington, Kentucky; fiction writer Manuel Muñoz of Tucson; and nonfiction writer Imani Perry of Cambridge, Massachusetts, won 2023 MacArthur Fellowships. Limón, whose most recent book is the poetry collection The Hurting Kind (Milkweed Editions, 2022); Muñoz, whose most recent book is the story collection The Consequences (Graywolf Press, 2022); and Perry, whose most recent nonfiction book is South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Ecco, 2022), will each receive $800,000 over five years. The annual fellowships are given in a variety of fields, including poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, to “enable recipients to exercise their own creative instincts for the benefit of human society.” There is no application process.
MacArthur Foundation, Office of Grants Management, 140 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60603. (312) 726-8000. 4answers@macfound.org macfound.org
Mississippi Arts Commission
LITERARY ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS
Creative nonfiction writers Exodus Oktavia Brownlow of Blackhawk;
Sean Ennis of Water Valley; Ellen Ann Fentress and Catherine Simone Gray, both of Jackson; and Vanessa Gregory of Oxford each received a $4,250 Literary Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission. The fellowships are given in alternating years to Mississippi poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The next round of fellowships will be awarded to poets and fiction writers. (SEE DEADLINES.) Mississippi Arts Commission, Literary Artist Fellowships, 501 North West Street, Woolfolk Building, Suite 1101A,
Jackson, MS 39201. (601) 359-6075. Kristen Brandt, Arts Industry Director. kbrandt@arts.ms.gov arts.ms.gov/grants/grants-for-individuals/artist -fellowships
Narrative
NARRATIVE PRIZE
Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar of Oakland won the 2023 Narrative Prize for her novel excerpt “Kartika.” She received $5,000. The annual award is given for a poem or group of poems, a short story, a novel excerpt, or a work of creative nonfiction by a new or emerging writer published in Narrative during the previous year. The next deadline is June 15.
SPRING STORY CONTEST
Natasha Ayaz of Cambridge, Massachusetts, won the 2023 Spring Story Contest for her short story “Crusaders.” She received $2,500 and publication in Narrative. The annual award is given for a short story, a short short story, an essay, or an excerpt from a work of fiction or creative nonfiction. The next deadline is July 31.
POETRY CONTEST
Heather Treseler of Boston won the 15th annual Poetry Contest for “Postscript.” She received $1,500 and publication in Narrative. The annual award is given for a poem or group of poems. The next deadline is July 18.
Narrative, 2443 Fillmore Street, #214, San Francisco, CA 94115. Tom Jenks, Editor. contact@narrativemagazine.com narrativemagazine.com
National Book Foundation
NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
Craig Santos Perez of Honolulu won the 2023 National Book Award in poetry for from unincorporated territory [åmot] (Omnidawn Publishing). The finalists in poetry were John Lee Clark of St. Paul for How to Communicate (Norton); Evie Shockley of Jersey City for suddenly we (Wesleyan University Press); Brandon Som of the unceded land of the Kumeyaay Nation for Tripas (Georgia Review Books); and Monica Youn of Irvine, California, for From From (Graywolf Press). Justin Torres of Los Angeles won the 2023 National Book Award in fiction for Blackouts (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The finalists in fiction were Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah of New York City for Chain-Gang AllStars (Pantheon Books); Aaliyah Bilal of Cincinnati for Temple Folk (Simon & Schuster); Paul Harding of Long Island, New York, for This Other Eden (Norton); and Hanna Pylväinen of Philadelphia for The End of Drum-Time (Henry Holt & Company). Ned Blackhawk of New Haven, Connecticut, won the 2023 National Book Award in nonfiction for The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Yale University Press). The finalists in nonfiction were Cristina Rivera Garza of Houston for Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice (Hogarth); Christina Sharpe of Toronto for Ordinary Notes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Raja Shehadeh of Ramallah, Palestine, for We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir (Other Press); and John Vaillant of Vancouver for Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World (Knopf). Dan Santat of Los Angeles won the 2023 National Book Award in young people’s literature for A First Time for Everything (First Second). The finalists in young people’s literature were Kenneth M. Cadow of Pompanoosuc, Vermont, for Gather (Candlewick Press); Huda Fahmy of Houston for Huda F Cares? (Dial Books for Young Readers); Vashti Harrison of New York City for Big (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers); and Katherine Marsh of Washington, D.C.,
for The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (Roaring Brook Press). Stênio Gardel of Fortaleza, Brazil, won the 2023 National Book Award in translated literature for The Words That Remain (New Vessel Press), translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato of St. Louis. The finalists in translated literature were Bora Chung of Seoul for Cursed Bunny (Algonquin Books), translated from the Korean by Anton Hur of Seoul; David Diop of Pau, France, for Beyond the Door of No Return (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), translated from the French by Sam Taylor of Texarkana, Texas; Pilar Quintana of Bogotá, Colombia, for Abyss (World Editions), translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman of Atlanta; and Astrid Roemer of Paramaribo for On a Woman’s Madness (Two Lines Press), translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott of Massachusetts. Perez, Torres, Blackhawk, and Santat each received $10,000; Gardel and Lobato each won $5,000. The finalists each received $1,000 (to be split evenly between author and translator for the translated literature category). The poetry judges were Rick Barot, Heid E. Erdrich, Jonathan Farmer,
Raina J. León, and Solmaz Sharif; the fiction judges were Steph Cha, Calvin Crosby, Silas House, Mat Johnson, and Helena María Viramontes; the nonfiction judges were Hanif Abdurraqib, Ada Ferrer, James Fugate, Sarah Schulman, and Sonia Shah; the young people’s literature judges were Sarah Park Dahlen, Kyle Lukoff, Claudette S. McLinn, justin a. reynolds, and Sabaa Tahir; and the translated literature judges were Geoffrey Brock, Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Cristina Rodriguez, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Jeremy Tiang. The annual awards honor books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature, and translated literature published in the U.S. during the award year. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set.
5 UNDER 35
Five fiction writers were selected as the National Book Foundation’s 2023 5 Under 35 honorees. They are Mateo Askaripour of New York City for his short story collection, Black Buck (Mariner Books, 2021), selected by Robert Jones Jr.; Jenny Xie of New York City for her novel, Holding Pattern (Riverhead Books, 2023), selected by Kirstin Valdez
Quade; and Ada Zhang of New York
City for her short story collection, The Sorrows of Others (A Public Space Books, 2023), selected by Jamil Jan Kochai; Chelsea T. Hicks of ancestral land in Tulsa for her story collection, A Calm and Normal Heart (Unnamed Press, 2022), selected by Louise Erdrich; and Morgan Talty of Levant, Maine, for his story collection, Night of the Living Rez (Tin House, 2022), selected by Karen Russell. They each received $1,000 and were celebrated at a ceremony in New York City in May 2023. The annual awards are given to writers under the age of 35 who have published their first book of fiction in the previous five years. There is no application process.
National Book Foundation,
90 Broad Street, Suite 604,
New York, NY 10004. (212) 685-0261. nationalbook@nationalbook.org nationalbook.org
New Letters
LITERARY AWARDS
S. Erin Batsite of New York City won the 2023 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry for “He Said/He Said.” David Lerner Schwartz of Cincinnati
won the 2023 Robert Day Award for Fiction for “The Binding Thing.” Summer Hammond of Wilmington, North Carolina, won the 2023 Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction for “A Little Slice of the Moon.” They each received $2,500 and will be published in the Winter/Spring 2024 issue of New Letters. Cortney Lamar Charleston judged in poetry, Akil Kumarasamy judged in fiction, and Clancy Martin judged in nonfiction. The annual awards are given for a poem or group of poems, a story, and an essay. The next deadline is May 20. New Letters, Literary Awards, University of Missouri, 5101 Rockhill Road,
Kansas City, MO 64110. (816) 235-1169. Ashley Wann, Managing Editor. newletters@umkc.edu newletters.org
Omnidawn Publishing
FIRST/SECOND POETRY BOOK CONTEST jason b. crawford of New York City won the 2023 First/Second Poetry
Book Contest for YEET! They received $3,000, publication of their book by Omnidawn Publishing, and 20 author copies. Sawako Nakayasu judged. The annual award is given for a first or second poetry collection. (SEE DEADLINES.) OPEN POETRY BOOK CONTEST
Sam Creely of Toronto won the
2022 Open Poetry Book Contest for Inventorys. They received $3,000, publication of their book by Omnidawn Publishing, and 20 author copies.
Shane McCrae judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is August 16. Omnidawn Publishing, 1632 Elm Avenue, Richmond, CA 94805. (510) 439-6285. Laura Joakimson and Rusty Morrison, Senior Editors and Publishers. rusty@omnidawn.com omnidawn.com/contests/omnidawn-poetry -contests
Passager Books
POETRY PRIZE
George Drew of Poestenkill, New York, won the 2023 Passager Poetry Prize for a group of poems. He received $1,000, and his poems, as well as an interview, were published in Issue 75 of Passager. The annual award is given for five poems by a writer over age 50. The next deadline is April 15.
Passager Books, Poetry Prize, 7401 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21208. Rosanne Singer, Assistant Editor. editors@passagerbooks.com passagerbooks.com
Pen Parentis
WRITING FELLOWSHIP FOR NEW
PARENTS
Taylor Hobbs of Port Orchard, Washington, won the 2023–2024 Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents for “Contingency Daughter.” She received $2,000, publication of her story in Dreamers Creative Writing, and a year of mentorship. She was also invited to give a reading online for the Pen Parentis Literary Salon. The annual award is given for a short story by a writer with at least one child under the age of 10. The next deadline is April 17.
Pen Parentis, Writing Fellowship for New Parents, 176 Broadway, 14F, New York, NY 10038. (212) 501-2031. info@penparentis.org penparentis.org
Ploughshares
EMERGING WRITER’S CONTEST
Logan Klutse of Denver won the 2023 Emerging Writer’s Contest in poetry for “Bronx Operating Room” and “Learning of Conspiracy Theories That ‘the Portal to Hell Resides Beneath the Denver Airport.’” Mengyin Lin of New York City won the 2023 Emerging Writer’s Contest in fiction for “No prairie fire can destroy all the weeds.” J Lazar of Burlington, Vermont, won the 2023 Emerging Writer’s Contest in nonfiction for “The End of What We Know.” They each received $2,000, publication of their work in the Winter 2023–2024 issue of Ploughshares, and a consultation with literary agency Aevitas Creative Management. Sandra Cisneros judged in poetry, Gish Jen judged in fiction, and Meghan O’Rourke judged in nonfiction. The annual awards are given for a poem or group of poems, a short story, and an essay. The next deadline is May 15. Ploughshares, Emerging Writer’s Contest, Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116. (617) 824-3757.
Olivia Carey, Managing Editor. pshares@pshares.org pshares.org
Poetry International
C.P. CAVAFY POETRY PRIZE
Sakinah Hofler of Princeton, New Jersey, won the 2022 C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize for “Grieve.” She received $1,000, and her poem will be published in Issue 29 of Poetry International. Sandra Alcosser judged. The annual award is given for a single poem. The next deadline is December 1.
Poetry International, C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize, San Diego State University, Department of English and Comparative Literature, 5500 Campanile Drive,
San Diego, CA 92182. Sandra Alcosser, Editor in Chief. poetryintl@gmail.com poetryinternational.sdsu.edu
Poetry Northwest
JAMES WELCH PRIZE FOR INDIGENOUS POETS
Kalehua Kim of the Hawaiian people and J. K. Tsosie of the Navajo tribe (Diné) won the third annual James Welch
Prize for Indigenous Poets. They each received $1,000, publication in Poetry Northwest, and an invitation to give a reading with the contest judge at
Poets House in New York City. Board members from In-Na-Po (Indigenous
Nations Poets) screened the entries, and Heid E. Erdrich of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe served as the final judge. The annual award is given to two Indigenous poets for a single poem by each writer. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Poetry Northwest, James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, Everett Community College, 2000 Tower Street,
Everett, WA 98201. Keetje Kuipers, Editor. editors@poetrynw.org poetrynw.org/james-welch-prize
Poetry Society of America
CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIPS
Luke Allan of Iowa City and David
Gorin of Phoenix won the 2023 Chapbook Fellowships. Allan won for Sweet Dreams, the Sea, chosen by Ishion Hutchinson, and Gorin won for To a Distant Country, chosen by Jennifer Chang. The winners each received $1,000, and their chapbooks will be published by the Poetry Society of America in 2024. The annual awards are given for poetry chapbooks. The next deadline is December 31, 2024.
Poetry Society of America,
Chapbook Fellowships, 119 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. (212) 254-9628. info@poetrysociety.org poetrysociety.org
Princess of Asturias Foundation
AWARD FOR LITERATURE
Fiction writer, nonfiction writer, and translator Haruki Murakami of Tokyo won the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature. Murakami, whose most recent book is the novel The City and its Uncertain Walls (Shinchosha, 2023), received €50,000 (approximately $54,260). A jury appointed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation judged. The annual award is given to a writer who is “fostering and advancing literary creation in all its genres.” There is no application process.
Princess of Asturias Foundation, Plácido Arango Arias, 2-33004 Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, Spain. fpa@fpa.es fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards
Rattle
POETRY PRIZE
Ardon Shorr of Princeton, New Jersey, won the 2023 Rattle Poetry Prize for “Time Travel for Beginners.” He received $15,000 and publication of his poem in Issue 82 of Rattle. The editors judged. The annual award is given for a single poem. The next deadline is July 15.
Rattle, Poetry Prize, 12411 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City, CA 91604.
(818) 505-6777. Timothy Green, Editor. tim@rattle.com rattle.com
Red Hen Press
WOMEN’S PROSE PRIZE
Malia Márquez of Los Angeles won the 2023 Women’s Prose Prize for City of Smoke and Sea. She received $1,000, and her novel will be published by Red Hen Press in fall 2025. Ellen Meeropol judged. The annual award is given for a book of fiction or nonfiction by a writer who identifies as a woman.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
Red Hen Press, Women’s Prose Prize, P.O. Box 40820, Pasadena, CA 91114. (626) 406-1203. Shelby Wallace, Production Editor. editorial@redhen.org redhen.org
Regal House Publishing
TERRY J. COX POETRY AWARD
Rafaella Del Bourgo of Berkeley, California, won the 2023 Terry J. Cox Poetry Award for A Tune Both Familiar and Strange. She received $1,000, and her poetry collection will be published by Regal House Publishing in 2025. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Regal House Publishing, Terry J. Cox Poetry Award, 806 Oberlin Road, #12094, Raleigh, NC 27605.
Jaynie Royal, Editor in Chief. info@regalhousepublishing.com regalhousepublishing.com
Salamander
FICTION PRIZE
Nina Sudhakar of Chicago won the 2023 Salamander Fiction Prize for “Come Tomorrow.” She received $1,000, and her story will be published in Issue 57 of Salamander. Kirstin Valdez Quade
judged. The annual award is given for a short story. The next deadline is June 1.
Salamander, Fiction Prize,
Suffolk University, English Department, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108. Katie Sticca, Managing Editor. salamandereditors@gmail.com salamandermag.org/contests
Southern Humanities Review
AUBURN WITNESS POETRY PRIZE
Samyak Shertok of Dallas won the
2023 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize for “Mother Tongue: A Haunting.” He received $1,000 and publication in Southern Humanities Review. He also read with contest judge Joy Harjo in an event hosted by Auburn University. The annual award is given for a poem of witness. The next deadline is June 1.
Southern Humanities Review, Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, Auburn University, 9088 Haley Center, Auburn, AL 36849. (334) 844-9088. shr@auburn.edu southernhumanitiesreview.com
Southern Indiana Review
MICHAEL WATERS POETRY PRIZE
Natalie Louise Tombasco of Tallahassee, Florida, won the 2023 Michael Waters Poetry Prize for Milk for Gall. She received $5,000, and her collection will be published by Southern Indiana Review Press in fall 2024. Michael Waters judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. (SEE DEADLINES.) Southern Indiana Review,
Michael Waters Poetry Prize, University of Southern Indiana, 8600 University Boulevard, Evansville, IN 47712. (812) 228-5145.
Ron Mitchell, Editor. sir.contest@usi.edu usi.edu/sir/michael-waters-poetry-prize
Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts
PHILIP ROTH RESIDENCIES
Poet Glorious Piner of Philadelphia and multidisciplinary artist Ziggy Rom of New York City won the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 Philip Roth Residencies in Creative Writing, respectively. They will each receive $5,000 and a residency of up to four months at the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University. The annual residencies are given to writers working on a first or second book in any literary genre. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts, Philip Roth Residencies,
Bucknell University, Bucknell Hall,
1 Dent Drive, Lewisburg, PA 17837. Andrew Ciotola, Program Manager. ciotola@bucknell.edu bucknell.edu/academics/beyond-classroom/ academic-centers-institutes/stadler-center -poetry-literary-arts/programs-residencies/ philip-roth-residence-creative-writing
Tupelo Press
DORSET PRIZE
Spring Ulmer of Essex, New York, won the 2023 Dorset Prize for Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April. She received $8,500, publication of her book by Tupelo Press, 20 author copies, and a weeklong residency at Gentle House in Port Angeles, Washington. Diane Seuss judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is December 31, 2024.
SNOWBOUND CHAPBOOK AWARD
Cate Peebles of Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania, won the 2023 Snowbound Chapbook Award for Revenge Bodies. She
received $1,000, publication by Tupelo Press, and 25 author copies. Traci Brimhall judged. The annual award is given for a poetry chapbook. (SEE DEADLINES.) SUNKEN GARDEN CHAPBOOK POETRY PRIZE
Leigh Lucas of San Francisco won the 2023 Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize for Landsickness. She received $1,000, publication of her chapbook by Tupelo Press, and 25 author copies. Chen Chen judged. The annual award is given for a poetry chapbook. The award will not be offered going forward.
Tupelo Press, P.O. Box 1767, North Adams, MA 01247. (413) 664-9611. Kristina Marie Darling, Editor in Chief. kdarling@tupelopress.org tupelopress.org
University of Wisconsin
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIPS
Five writers received the 2023–2024 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships in Poetry and Fiction. Elijah Bean of Philadelphia received the Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellowship; Sadia Hassan of Portland, Oregon, received the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship; Gothataone Moeng of Serowe, Botswana, received the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship; Mandy Moe Pwint Tu of Madison, Wisconsin, received the Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship in Poetry; and Ada Zhang of New York City received the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellowship. Each fellow receives a stipend of at least $40,000 plus benefits, teaches one undergraduate creative writing workshop at the University of Wisconsin each semester, and gives one public reading. The nine-month fellowships provide time, space, and an intellectual community for poets and fiction writers working on a first or second book. Writers who hold an MFA or PhD in creative writing and have published no more than one book are eligible.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships, English Department, 600 North
Park Street, H.C. White Room 6195, Madison, WI 53706. Ron Kuka, Program Coordinator. institutemail@english.wisc.edu creativewriting.wisc.edu/fellowships
Virginia Commonwealth University
LEVIS READING PRIZE
Corey Van Landingham of Urbana, Illinois, won the 2023 Levis Reading Prize for Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens (Tupelo Press). She received $5,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to give a reading at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The annual award is given for a first or second book of poetry published during the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.) Virginia Commonwealth University, Levis Reading Prize, English Department,
900 Park Avenue, Hibbs Hall, Room 306, P.O. Box 842005, Richmond, VA 23284. Paul Brennan, Levis Fellow. levis@vcu.edu english.vcu.edu/about/national-literary-awards/ levis-reading-prize