• Iowa Short Fiction Awards - The Iowa Short Fiction Awards are given to a first collection of fiction in English and are administered through the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The honors are national in scope and have been given since 1969. Award-winning manuscripts will be published by the University of Iowa Press under the Press’s standard contract. ^pop (Added: 4-Apr-2008 Hits: 764 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Nelson Algren Awards - The Nelson Algren awards are for short fiction. Submissions must be written by an American and must be unpublished. One $5,000 prize and three runner-up prizes of $1,500 are awarded. The award is given in memory of Chicago author Nelson Algren. Stories must be typed and double-spaced, between 2,500 and 8,000 words. ^pop (Added: 16-Sep-2007 Hits: 2213 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award - PEN New England accepts submissions for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for books. The award of $8,000 is presented for a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction. Eligible titles, which must be the first published book length work of fiction by an American citizen or resident, published in the United States, may be submitted by publishers, agents, or the authors themselves. ^pop (Added: 10-Dec-2007 Hits: 775 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• THE HOPWOOD AWARDS - Avery Hopwood, who graduated from University of Michigan a century ago and went on to become the most commercially successful playwright of the 1920s, began an endowment that became the Avery and Jude Hopwood Awards. The awards, the nation's oldest such contest, have nurtured young fiction writers from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller in the 1930s to current best selling novelist Elizabeth Kostova, who won her Hopwoods in 2003 and 2004. Total Hopwood contest prizes totaled $119,500 while the related contests awarded prizes of $25,550. ^pop (Added: 19-Oct-2006 Hits: 2706 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - The Directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation each year choose three noted writers of fiction to select the winner and four finalists for the Awards among the approximately 300 novels and short story collections submitted. The winner, or “first among equals,” receives $15,000; each of the others receives $5,000, making PEN/Faulkner the largest peer-juried award for fiction in the United States. All five authors read from their works at the Award ceremony and celebration held at the Folger Shakespeare Library each May. ^pop (Added: 10-Dec-2007 Hits: 675 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Wallace Stegner Fellowship - Unique among writing programs, Stanford offers ten two-year fellowships each year, five in fiction and five in poetry. All the fellows in each genre convene weekly in a 3-hour workshop with faculty. ^pop (Added: 2-Jan-2008 Hits: 655 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship - The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship of $5,000 is offered annually to an author of children's or young-adult fiction. The Fellowship has been developed to help writers whose work is of high literary caliber but who have not yet attracted a broad readership. As a result, an author's books may not have achieved the sales that would allow the writer to support him or herself solely from writing. (Added: 10-Dec-2007 Hits: 468 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Drue Heinz Literature Prize - The Drue Heinz Literature Prize recognizes and supports writers of short fiction and makes their work available to readers around the world. The award is open to writers who have published a book-length collection of fiction or at least three short stories or novellas in commercial magazines or literary journals. The prize carries a cash award of $15,000 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press under its standard contract. (Added: 8-Mar-2008 Hits: 386 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Eudora Welty Fiction Thesis Prize - The Eudora Welty Fiction Thesis Prize ($1,000) is awarded annually for the best book-length fiction thesis completed by an English Major with an Emphasis in Creative Writing. (Added: 5-Feb-2008 Hits: 261 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction - This annual award is given to the manuscript collection of short fiction selected by an independent judge to be the best submitted. The winning author will receive publication under a standard book contract that includes a cash prize of $1,500 as an advance against royalties. (Added: 20-Jan-2008 Hits: 536 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

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