Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman
Submissions for the Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman are open!
NEW DEADLINE–March 31, 2014!
Carolina Wren Press will choose one unpublished full-length work (novel, short story collection, or memoir) by a woman to receive the 2014 Doris Bakwin Award, an award of $1,000 and publication. Electronic submissions will be accepted through March 31, 2014, via Submittable using the following link: https://carolinawrenpress.submittable.com/submit. Submissions must be original, previously unpublished work, written by one person, in English. Please read the full guidelines posted at Submittable before uploading your file.
Final Judge: Randall Kenan
Randall Kenan‘s first novel, A Visitation of Spirits, was published 1989, and a collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, was published in 1992. That collection was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was among The New York Times Notable Books of 1992. He is also the author of a young adult biography of James Baldwin (1993) and wrote the text for Norman Mauskoff’s book of photographs, A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta (1997). Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century was published in 1999 and was nominated for the Southern Book Award. His latest book, The Fire This Time, was published in May 2007. He is currently working on a novel set in North Carolina and New York City, and a collection of short stories. Recently he edited and wrote the introduction to The Cross of Redemption: The Uncollected Writings of James Baldwin (Pantheon, 2010). *Photo by Miriam Berkley
The winning work for the 2013 Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman, A Falling Starby Chantel Acevedo will be published this spring. More about the winner here…
Thank you to everyone who entered the Lee Smith Novel Prize competition. We hope to release the long list of semi-finalists in March.