GLCA Now Accepting Nominations for the 2024 New Writers Award
The GLCA invites literary submissions from publishers to its New Writers Awards (NWA) 2024 competition. For this year’s program, the NWA will accept entries that bear a publication imprint of 2022 or 2023.
For the 54th year this group of thirteen independent Midwestern colleges will confer recognition on a volume of writing in each of three literary genres: poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Publishers submit works on behalf of their authors; a defining criterion for this award is that a work must be an author’s first–published volume in the genre. Judges of the award are professors of literature and creative writing at GLCA member colleges.
Entries will now be accepted. To be considered for this year’s award, all materials must be received (or books postmarked) no later than June 25, 2023.
Publishers should consult the following resources in completing a submission.
Complete Guidelines
FAQs
Publisher Nomination Form 2024
Author’s Statement of Agreement
Submission Material Checklist:
Please make sure you have carefully looked over this list so that your nomination can be accepted.
- Complete the Publisher Nomination Form
- Complete the Author Statement of Agreement — can be submitted separately from Nomination Form.
- Confirm this is author’s first published book in genre for which you are submitting.
- Book has a publication date of 2022 or 2023
- Writer lives in the U.S. or Canada
- FOUR copies of book mailed to (we do not accept electronic copies of books)
GLCA NWA
535 W. William St, Suite 301
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
GLCA Announces 2023 Winners of the
New Writers Award
The Great Lakes Colleges Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 GLCA New Writers Award.
Now entering its 54th year, the New Writers Award confers recognition on promising writers who have published a first volume in one of the three genres: Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Non-fiction. Judges of the New Writers Award are faculty members of creative writing and literature at GLCA’s member colleges.
We extend our warmest congratulations to the 2023 Award Winners:
Poetry: James Fujinami Moore, indecent hours, published by Four Way Books.
Fiction: Tsering Yangzom Lama, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Creative Non-Fiction: Lars Horn, Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay, published by Graywolf Press.
About the New Writers Award
The GLCA New Writers Award was founded in 1970 as a program to enrich the environment of literary creativity and expression for students and faculty members of GLCA member colleges. The program focuses on writers, typically in early stages of a literary career, who have published a first volume in fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction.
Judges of the award are faculty members of creative writing and literature at GLCA’s 13 member colleges. Each year the winning writers in the three categories receive invitations to visit several GLCA colleges, where they give readings, meet with students and faculty, sign books, and often visit a creative writing class.
Full list of all New Writers Award winners from 1970 to the present
The 2022 winning writers are currently touring campuses.
Publishers interested in finding out more about this award can contact Colleen Monahan Smith ([email protected]), via email (preferred) or at 734.661.2336.