Genre: Creative Nonfiction

Prizes in Books

Pulitzer Prizes
Entry Fee: 
$75
Deadline: 
October 15, 2024
Six prizes of $15,000 each are given annually for books of poetry, fiction, general nonfiction, U.S. history, biography, and memoir first published in the United States during the current year. Eligible authors include U.S. citizens and permanent residents or those who have made the United States their longtime primary home. Using only the online submission system, submit a digital copy of a book published in 2024 with a $75 entry fee by October 15. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

Brooklyn Nonfiction Prize

Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
November 15, 2024
A prize of $500 and publication on the Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival website is given annually for a work of nonfiction that is set in Brooklyn, New York, and renders the borough’s “rich soul and intangible qualities through the writer’s actual experiences in Brooklyn.” Submit an essay of up to 2,500 words by November 15. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Tracy O’Neill and Padma Viswanathan on Genre-Bending Memoirs

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In this Center for Fiction event, Padma Viswanathan, author of Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime (7.13 Books, 2024), and Tracy O’Neill, author of Woman of Interest (HarperOne, 2024), discuss their memoirs and how they broke genre conventions to craft their stories.

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Creative Nonfiction
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Tracy O'Neill
Woman of Interest
HarperOne
Padma Viswanathan
Like Every Form of Love
memoir
Center for Fiction
2024

Visions of America With Kaoukab Chebaro

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In this installment of the Visions of America: All Stories, All People, All Places series hosted by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and PBS Books, Kaoukab Chebaro, head of Global Studies at the Columbia University Libraries, discusses the importance of first-person storytelling and her work in preserving the individual history of Arabs across the globe.

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Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
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Visions of America
Kaoukab Chebaro
PBS Books
Institute of Museum and Library Services
library
archive
Columbia University Libraries
history
Arab American
2024

Appearances

The Time Is Now
8.8.24

When you picture sea otters, you might think immediately of the many photos and videos of fuzzy otters holding hands while floating in the water, but do these images of cuddly creatures represent their true character? In a 2013 Slate article titled “Sea Otters Are Jerks. So Are Dolphins, Penguins, and Other Adorable Animals,” the violent behavior of these animals and their instinctive modes in the wild are described in detail and contradict the cute and cuddly depictions humans often project onto them. Write a personal essay that explores the theme of deceptive appearances, perhaps drawing on experiences you’ve had in which you misjudged someone and found your first impression contradicted other facts. Or you might think back to a time when someone else made assumptions about you based on superficial traits. What social conditions or cultural expectations contributed to those first impressions?

Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker in a Conversation With Hilton Als

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For this LIVE From NYPL event, Jamaica Kincaid and illustrator Kara Walker discuss their collaborative book, An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), and the racial, colonial history of gardening in a conversation with Hilton Als.

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Creative Nonfiction
Cross-Genre
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Jamaica Kincaid
Kara Walker
Hilton Als
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
LIVE From NYPL
illustration
Gardening
2024

Agents and Editors on the Secrets of Publishing

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In this virtual event hosted by the Strand Book Store, Sue Shapiro, author of The Forgiveness Tour: How to Find the Perfect Apology (Skyhorse, 2021), leads a conversation about best practices for pitching, submitting, and querying with agents and editors including Miya Lee, Rakesh Satyal, and Howard Yoon.

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Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
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Strand Book Store
Sue Shapiro
publishing
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literary agent
editors
discussion
Rakesh Satyal
Howard Yoon
Miya Lee
2024

Intensity of Feeling

The Time Is Now
8.1.24

“When I say I have written from the beginning, I mean that all real writers write from the beginning, that the vocation, the obsession, is already there, and that the obsession derives from an intensity of feeling which normal life cannot accommodate,” said the late Irish author Edna O’Brien in a 1984 interview for the Paris Review’s Art of Fiction series. O’Brien, who died last Saturday at the age of ninety-three, was the author of a series of novels beginning with The Country Girls, which were internationally acclaimed but banned in Ireland. Her work included memoirs, biographies, and plays, many of which revolved around intimate stories of women’s experiences of love and loss. Write a lyric essay that responds to O’Brien’s sentiment about being drawn to writing from “an intensity of feeling.” Does writing serve in some sense as an outlet for expressing something that seemingly can’t fit into the strictures of normal life?

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