Book awards open for submissions

Submissions are being accepted for the 2019 Housatonic Book Awards, hosted by the Western Connecticut State University Master of Fine Arts in Creative and Professional Writing program. Authors and poets are encouraged to submit their work published in

2018.

Awards include a $1,000 honorarium with an additional $500 travel stipend in exchange for the opportunity to lead a one-day, threehour writing workshop for M.F.A. in Creative and Professional Writing students. Winners also will give a public reading during students’ weeklong residency at WCSU.

Genres accepted include fiction, poetry, nonfiction (and all subgenres), middle grade and young adult literature. Winners for nonfiction, middle grade or young adult will appear at the M.F.A. program’s August residency. Winners in fiction and poetry will appear at the January residency.

The submission fee is

$25. The application deadline is June 14.

Contestants can review detailed submission guidelines online at the Housatonic Book Awards website: https://housatonicbookawards.wordpress.com/guidelines/.

Submit work online using the electronic submission portal: https:// alumni.wcsu.edu/housatonic-book-awards.

Snail-mail submissions can be sent to: Housatonic Book Awards, WCSU Writing Dept., White Hall

314, 181 White St., Danbury, CT 06810.