AWP Award Series

Attention Interested Writers:

AWP AWARD SERIES The Award Series now welcomes submissions to AWP¹s annual book-lengthliterary competition for the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, the Grace PaleyPrize for Short Fiction, the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the AWPAward for the Novel. Winning authors receive an honorarium from AWP andpublication by a participating press. Former students of an Award Series judge are not eligible to enter thecompetition in the genre that the judge (and former teacher) is evaluating.The postmark deadline for the 2008 Award Series is from January 1 toFebruary 28.

See our website for a list of judges, presses, past winners,complete guidelines, and the required form for submitting your work.www.awpwriter.org/contests/series.htm WC&C SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION Writers¹ Conferences & Centers is conducting its annual competition toprovide scholarships for writers who wish to attend a writers¹ conference,center, retreat, or residency. The scholarships will be applied to fees toattend any of the over 100 members of WC&C, an association of outstandingconferences, centers, retreats, and festivals for writers. The deadline for the WC&C Competition is March 30, 2008. Two scholarships of$500 will be awarded. To enter the competition, please follow the guidelineslisted on our web site:

http://www.writersconf.org/scholarship/index.php