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 |
|
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award |
Multi-genre |
None |
$10,000 |
|
Autumn House Press Awards |
Multi-genre (Manuscripts) |
None |
Publication and $1,000-$2,500 |
|
Bancroft Prizes |
American History or Diplomacy |
None |
$10,000 |
|
Best Translated Book Awards |
Translation |
None |
$5,000 |
|
Goldsmith Book Prize |
Media, Politics, or Public Policy |
None |
$5,000 |
|
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award |
Translation of Poetry |
None |
$1,000 |
|
PEN/Hemingway Award |
Debut Novel |
$85 with possibility of waived fee |
$25,000 |
|
James Jones First Novel Award |
Debut Novel |
$30 |
$10,000 |
|
James Laughlin Award |
Poetry |
None |
$5,000 |
|
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize |
Fiction by a Woman |
None |
$7,500 |
|
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award |
Poetry |
None |
$100,000 |
|
Lambda Literary Awards |
LGBTQ Multi-genre |
$55 |
$1,000-$5,000 |
|
National Book Awards |
Multi-genre |
$135 |
$10,000 |
|
National Poetry Competition |
Poetry |
$35 |
$10,000 |
|
Paz Prize for Poetry |
Spanish Poetry |
$35 |
$2,000 |
|
John Newbery Medal |
Children |
None |
None |
|
New Criterion Poetry Prize |
Poetry Manuscript |
$25 |
$3,000 |
|
AAHHE Book of the Year |
Multi-genre |
None |
None |
|
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation |
Translation of Poetry |
$85 with possibility of waived fee |
$3,000 |
|
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction |
Fiction |
None |
$15,000 |
|
PEN/Open Book |
Writers of Color - Multi-genre |
$85 with possibility of waived fee |
$5,000 |
|
PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants |
Translation |
None |
$5,000 |
|
Premio de Poesía Juana Goergen - Poesía en Abril |
Spanish Poetry |
None |
$500 |
|
Pulitzer Prize |
Multi-genre |
$75 |
$15,000 |
|
Pushcart Prize |
Multi-genre Excerpts |
None |
None |
|
Stonewall Book Awards |
LGBTQ Non-fiction and Young Adult |
None |
$1,000 |
|
The Story Prize |
Collection of Short Fiction |
$75 |
$20,000 |
|
Tomás Rivera Award |
Mexican American Multi-genre |
None |
None |
|
Walt Whitman Award |
Debut Poetry Book |
$35 |
$5,000 |
|
Whiting Awards |
Multi-genre |
None |
$50,000 |
|
Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant |
Nonfiction |
None |
$40,000 |
|
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize |
Translated of Poem from Any Language to English |
$10 |
$1,000 |
|
Pura Belpré |
Children |
None |
None |
|
International Latino Book Awards |
Multi-genre |
$100 |
None |
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Original publication 9/21/2019
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