The 2015 SFWP Awards Program
runs through November 1st, 2015!
- The grand prize is $1,500, and two runner-ups will receive $1,000 each
- Authors retain all rights to their work
- Winners will be offered a competitive book contract for full-market, frontlist release. There’s no obligation to sign this contract.
- There is a $30 reading fee
- This year’s judge is Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
- SFWP will not keep submissions on file or use them for any purpose without the permission of the respective authors. We do not share personal contact information with any individual, organization, or marketing agency.
- Deadline: November 1st, 2015.
- What are we looking for? All work will be eligible despite genre, form, subject, or length. So we’ll take full- length manuscripts, collections short or long, excerpts, and essays. We don’t care about what the big presses believe to be “marketable,” we want to see excellence in writing, no matter the form it takes. So if you are a writer over the age of 18 from anywhere in the world, we want to hear from you.
- Multiple entries will be accepted.
- Entries may include a synopsis, outline, or introductory letter. Do not send personal correspondence to the judge.
- You may participate in other contests and programs as well as pursue publication during the SFWP 2015 Awards Cycle. There will be no penalties if your work wins another award or is published before the judging begins.
- Who is eligible? All unpublished work is eligible. So is previously published material, including material published in zines, lit journals, and by micro presses. Self-published books are eligible, as are books published via Amazon’s CreateSpace, KDP, etc. If you have published with a small press and have not received any marketing support, then your book is eligible.
Since 2000, the SFWP Literary Awards Program has recognized excellence in writing, judged by National Book Critics Circle Award-winner and NBA finalist Jayne Anne Phillips, two-time NEA fellow and Hemingway Award finalist Richard Currey, Granta “best novelist under 40″ and Guggenheim fellow Chris Offutt, popular essayist Ayun Halliday, Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Olen Butler, NPR’s “Voice of Books” Alan Cheuse, and the “Queen of the Zines,” Pagan Kennedy. In 2013, the judges were David Morrelland Lee Gutkind. (And, no, you do not have to live in Santa Fe. The program is open to everyone, everywhere in the world.)
>via: http://sfwp.com/the-contest/