Ann Petry Award for Black Writers 2022 (Up to $3,000)

The Ann Petry Award founded in 2020 in partnership with Red Hen Press and the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance, seeks to publish prose literature by Black authors. The Ann Petry Award is for a work of previously unpublished prose, either a novel or a collection of short stories or novellas, with a minimum of 150 pages, by a Black writer. The awarded manuscript is selected through an annual submission process, with primary review by the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance, who will winnow the submissions to a list of finalists for the final judge.

WORTH

• Up to $3000
• Book publication by Red Hen Press
• The opening chapter or story of the awarded manuscript will be published in the Peauxdunque Review
• Four-week residency at The Community Library’s Ernest and Mary Hemingway House in Ketchum, Idaho

ELIGIBILITY

• Authors who have had a full-length work published by Red Hen Press, or a full-length work currently under consideration by Red Hen Press
• Employees, interns, or contractors of Red Hen Press
• Relatives of employees or members of the executive board of directors
• Relatives or individuals having a personal or professional relationship with any of the final judges where they have taken any part whatsoever in shaping the manuscript, or where, for whatever reason, selecting a particular manuscript might have the appearance of impropriety.

DEADLINE:  July 31, 2022

To apply and for more information visit here