2007 Literary Awards

 

Below is a list of various places that offer awards. Dates depict deadlines.
(List compliments of Shaila Abdullah)

January
9 Texas Institute of Letters Awards
15 ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award
15 Eric Hoffer Book Award
31 2008 Saroyan International Prize for Writing (2006, 2007, 2008)
31 The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
31 First Novelist Award
31 AWW "Good Read' Fiction Book Competition
31 Reading Writers First Chapter Contest
31 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
31 VCU First Novelist Award

February
1 Kay Snow Writing Contest starts
7 East Texas Writers' Guild
20 PNWA
28 Saroyan Prize (2006)
28 Fort Bend Writers Guild

March
1 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship
1 Word/work self published award
4 CVWW Writing Contest
16 Frank O'Connor International
15 CNW/FFWA Annual Florida State Writing (Novel in progress)

April
1 Paterson Fiction Prize
1 William Faulkner - Creative Writing Competition (unpublished)
15 2005 National Book Awards
21 Asian American Literary Awards

May
1AWW Good Read
1 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize/ Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize
1 William Faulkner - William Wisdom
1 SWW Contest
1 14th Annual International Self-published Book Awards
15 The American Ethnological Society
15 Mount Arrowsmith Novel Writing (for new first 80 pages)
15 76th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition
16 Kay Snow Writing Contest (Novel in progress)
16 Lillian Smith
20 Texas Bound/Dallas Museum of Art
31 AWW Women's write

June
1 Writers Contest 2006
1 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers
15 National Book Awards

July
1 CWA Communicator Award
1 Emergence First Chapter Award
15 Best Books Award 2006

August
1 AAAS 2004 Book Award
15 Mount Arrowsmith NovelWriting Contest / 2007
15 Young Lions Fiction Awards (2006) by publisher only
31 Norumbega Fiction Awards

September
1 Beyond Margins
1 Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize
13 Discover Great New Writers (Not for self-published)
15 2007 Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes
25 2005 DIY Book Festival
30 Myers Center Outstanding Book Awards
30 Hackney Literary Award

October
14 Grub Street
15 Pulitzer prize for fiction
31 Dana Awards (Novel in progress)
31 PEN/Faulkner Foundation Award for Fiction (not self published)

November
1 Jada Third Annual "Book of the Year" Awards
1 Story prize award
16 IPPY
19 Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award (nominated by Editor who has your unpublished manuscript)

December
1 National Book Critics Circle Award
1 Schneider Family Book Awards
14 The Adirondack Center For Writing
15 Reader Views Book Awards
31 American Book Awards/ Before Columbus Foundation
31 8th Annual Benjamin Franklin Awards (submitted by publisher)
31 Santa Fe Writer's Project

List of Pen Awards http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1351