<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Subject: 2025 AWP Award Series<br>To: alumni <<a href="mailto:mfa_alumni@lists.ucr.edu">mfa_alumni@lists.ucr.edu</a>>, Mfa Listserve <<a href="mailto:CWgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu">CWgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu</a>>, CWPA Students <<a href="mailto:cwpagradstudents@lists.ucr.edu">cwpagradstudents@lists.ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top:9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%;float:left"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;padding:0px 18px 9px"><h3 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;line-height:22.499998px;color:rgb(221,87,31)">Prepare Your Book-Length Manuscripts for the 2025 AWP Award Series Judges </h3></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top:9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%;float:left"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;padding:0px 18px 9px">AWP is excited to announce our judges for the 2025 AWP Award Series! Cheryl Strayed, R. O. Kwon, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and Kevin Wilson will judge the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, the James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel, the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, respectively.<br><br>AWP invites book-length entries between January 1 and February 28, 2025. Judges will select one winning manuscript in each genre by late summer 2025. Winning authors receive a cash prize and publication by one of our partner presses. Read all about this year’s judges and find full submission guidelines on the<span> </span><a href="https://awpwriter.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3a78d5393f981cd9a567d3d42&id=66f069e6e0&e=c57831cf66" style="color:rgb(95,96,75)" target="_blank">AWP Award Series</a><span> </span>page. <br><br><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Contests/AWP-Award-Series/Overview.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Contests/AWP-Award-Series/Overview.aspx</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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