Willie Morris Awards for Southern Fiction and Southern Nonfiction
Deadline September 30 (must be received by this date), formerly April 30. Highly recommended free contest offers prizes of $12,000 apiece for the authors of a novel and a nonfiction book published in the deadline year and set in the Southern US. Winners also receive an expenses-paid trip to Oxford, Mississippi. Authors should be "under-recognized, original voices in conversations about the South". Titles must "ask readers to engage with or reflect on the complexities of the American South"; be uplifting, optimistic, and hopeful; and demonstrate a "sense of period, place, and people". Publisher, editor, or author should submit registration form online and then send one copy to prize sponsor.
Source: https://www.williemorrisawards.org/
Published: July 20, 2022
