The Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award for the Best Work of Fiction (no fee)
Deadline: February 17, 2026
Kansas fiction writers with book-length works published in the past three years (2023–25) are eligible to win the $1,000 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Fiction.
The annual award, rotating between poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, is sponsored by the Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection at Washburn University in Topeka and the Friends of the University Library. Authors with a connection to the state of Kansas through birth, residence, education, employment, or some other significant circumstance are eligible. This year's judge will be 2023 HHKBA Fiction winner Catherine Browder, author of Resurrection City (Willow Springs Press, 2022).
There is no fee to enter. Learn more.
