Housatonic Book Awards
The MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University and its alumni organization, the MFA Alumni Writers Collaborative, are proud to present the 2022 Housatonic Book Awards.
The Award will be given to book-length works in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and YA/Middle-Grade. Books must have been published in 2021. The Award carries a $1,000 honorarium in exchange for appearing at the winter or summer residency of the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University to give a public reading and a one-day, three-hour workshop with MFA students. The Award also includes a $500 travel stipend and hotel stay during the residency.
For more information and submission guidelines, visit: Housatonic Book Awards
The 2022 Housatonic Book Award Winners!
The 2021 Housatonic Book Award Winners!
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Fiction The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
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Poetry
Original Kink by Jubi Arriola-Headley |
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Nonfiction Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing by Julie Marie Wade |
Young Adult/Middle Grade
The Newspaper Club by Beth Vrabel |
The 2020 Housatonic Book Award Winners!
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Fiction Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger
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Poetry
Leave Smoke by Jeff Walt |
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Nonfiction The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer |