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AWP Award Series 2024

Deadline
28 February 2024

Who may enter
The competition is open to all authors writing original works in English for adult readers. 

Short description
The competition is run by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), a nonprofit literary organization based in US.

“ Only book-length manuscripts are eligible. The AWP Award Series defines "book-lenght" as:

• Poetry: 48 pages minimum text;
• Short story collection or creative nonfiction: 150–300 manuscript pages; and
• Novel: at least 60,000 and no more than 110,000 words.

Manuscripts must be uploaded to https://awp.submittable.com/submit.

Entry fees
$30 for nonmembers and $20 for AWP members

Prizes
• Donald Hall Prize for Poetry: $5,500 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press
• Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction: $5,500 and publication by Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
• Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction: $2,500 and publication by the University of Georgia Press
• James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel: $5,500 and publication by the University of Nebraska Press

Competition website
For further information visit the official competition website. https://www.awpwriter.org/contests/awp_award_series_overview