Database of Literary Awards in the United States

​In an effort to promote and expose contemporary Latin American literature to a wider audience in the United States, Latino Book Review has created an ongoing database of significant Literary Awards based in the United States. We hope this database will encourage more Latino authors to submit their works to mainstream awards, prizes and grants, as well as facilitate the process of submission. We ask the general public to help Latino Book Review continue building this database by providing the names of significant literary awards and a link to the submission guideline webpage on the comment section below.

We are confident in the passion and talent of Latino writers across the United States, and understand that our collective efforts will help expand our stories and culture. 

Literary Awards	Genre	​Submission Fee	​Monetary Prize	Website LInk
American Book Awards	​Multi-genre	None	None	https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/foundation-news/2019-american-book-award-winners-announced/
​Anisfield-Wolf Book Award	​Multi-genre	​None	$10,000	https://www.anisfield-wolf.org/submissions/submission-guidelines/
Autumn House Press Awards	Multi-genre (Manuscripts)	None	Publication and $1,000-$2,500	https://www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/
Bancroft Prizes	American History or Diplomacy	None	$10,000	https://library.columbia.edu/about/awards/bancroft.html
Best Translated Book Awards	Translation	None	$5,000	http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/category/best-translated-book-awards/
Goldsmith Book Prize	Media, Politics, or Public Policy	None	$5,000	https://shorensteincenter.org/goldsmith-awards/goldsmith-book-prize/
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award	Translation of Poetry	None	$1,000	https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/harold-morton-landon-translation-award
PEN/Hemingway Award	Debut Novel	$85 with possibility of waived fee	$25,000	https://pen.org/literary-award/pen-hemingway-award-25000/
James Jones First Novel Award	Debut Novel	$30	$10,000	https://wilkes.edu/academics/graduate-programs/masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/james-jones-fellowship-contest.aspx
James Laughlin Award	Poetry	None	$5,000	https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/james-laughlin-award
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize	Fiction by a Woman	None	$7,500	http://www.sas.rochester.edu/gsw/news-events/kafka-prize/index.html
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award	Poetry	None	$100,000	https://arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-awards/
Lambda Literary Awards	LGBTQ Multi-genre	$55	$1,000-$5,000	https://www.lambdaliterary.org/submit-books/
National Book Awards	Multi-genre	$135	$10,000	https://www.nationalbook.org/national-book-awards/submissions/
National Poetry Competition	Poetry	$35	$10,000	https://nationalpoetryseries.org/apply/#nps-paz
Paz Prize for Poetry	Spanish Poetry	$35	$2,000	https://nationalpoetryseries.org/apply/#nps-paz
John Newbery Medal	Children	None	None	http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyapp/newberyapplication
New Criterion Poetry Prize	Poetry Manuscript	$25	$3,000	https://www.newcriterion.com/bookstore?mode=poetryprize
AAHHE Book of the Year	Multi-genre	None	None	https://www.aahhe.org/Awards/bookoftheyearaward.aspx
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation	Translation of Poetry	$85 with possibility of waived fee	$3,000	https://pen.org/pen-award-poetry-translation/
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	Fiction	None	$15,000	https://www.penfaulkner.org/award-for-fiction/submission-guidelines/
PEN/Open Book	Writers of Color - Multi-genre	$85 with possibility of waived fee	$5,000	https://pen.org/literary-award/pen-open-book-award-5000/
PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants	Translation	None	$5,000	https://pen.org/pen-heim-grants/
Premio de Poesía Juana Goergen - Poesía en Abril	Spanish Poetry	None	$500	https://poesiaenabril.org/premiojuanagoergen/
Pulitzer Prize	Multi-genre	$75	$15,000​	https://www.pulitzer.org/page/2017-plan-award
Pushcart Prize	Multi-genre Excerpts	None	None	http://www.pushcartprize.com/nomination.html
Stonewall Book Awards	LGBTQ Non-fiction and Young Adult	None	$1,000	http://www.ala.org/rt/glbtrt/award/stonewall
The Story Prize	Collection of Short Fiction	$75	$20,000​	http://thestoryprize.org/eligibility
Tomás Rivera Award	Mexican American Multi-genre	None	None	https://www.education.txstate.edu/ci/riverabookaward/submit-a-book.html
Walt Whitman Award	Debut Poetry Book	$35	$5,000	https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/walt-whitman-award
Whiting Awards	Multi-genre	None	$50,000	https://whiting.org/writers/awards/about
Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant	Nonfiction	None	$40,000	https://whiting.org/writers/creative-nonfiction-grant/about
​Willis Barnstone Translation Prize	Translated of Poem from Any Language to English	$10	$1,000	https://www.evansville.edu/majors/creativewriting/evansvilleReviewBarnstone.cfm

​​​9/21/2019

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