EN 311: Creative Writing: Literary Prizes & Publishers

Years Covered: 1901 to present
This site not only lists winners but it also contains biographies, selected bibliographies, photos, Nobel lectures, interviews and articles written by and about Nobel Prize Laureates.

Years Covered: 1917 to present
Award Categories: Biography or Autobiography, Drama, Fiction, History, Nonfiction, and Poetry
This sophisticated site offers a searchable database of past winners and nominated finalists. Biographies and photographs of winners are included on the website.

Years Covered: 1969 to present
In addition to listing prize winners (past and present), this site has press releases, author biographies and photos of the latest year's winners.

Years Covered: 1950 to present
Award Categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People's Literature
Contains acceptance speeches, selected author study guides, which include essays about and interviews with past National Book winners and finalists.

Years Covered: 1981 to present
Award Categories: Fiction, General Nonfiction, Biography and Autobiography, Poetry and Criticism
Lists past winners and contains synopses of the works of all the winners for the current year.

Years Covered: 1996 to present
This relatively recent literary award honors female writers of fiction. The site includes biographies, reviews and interviews with the winners for the past two years.

Years Covered: 1971 to present
Award Categories: Book of the Year, Children's Book of the Year, Novel, First Novel, Biography and Poetry
Formerly called the Whitbread Book Awards. The website for this UK award features an archive of past winners.

A series of awards in a number of different categories, ranging from poetry to biography to sports and science writing.

An annual award for fiction. This site includes an archive of award winners and shortlisted titles.

Founded in 2015, this publisher "publishes books of the highest literary caliber."
They have "stunning stories that expose and reveal every stage of evolution, from hope to pain to struggle to submission."

Founded in 2006, Rose Metal Press is a not-for-profit publisher specializing in the publication of flash fiction and nonfiction; prose poetry; novels-in-verse or book-length linked narrative poems; novellas-in-flash; lyric essays; text and image works; and other literary works that move beyond the traditional genres of poetry, fiction, and essay to find new forms of expression.​

​"2Leaf Press challenges the status quo by publishing alternative fiction, non‐fiction, poetry and bilingual works by activists, academics, poets and authors. We are especially dedicated to publishing scholarship regarding diversity and social justice that is accessible to the general public."

​"39 West Press is an independent book publisher committed to releasing books that encourage critical thinking and promote constructive discourse on key social, cultural, political, and economic issues affecting life in the U.S. "
They publish "publish books of art, poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction."

"Whether political or literary or both together, Seven Stories is as well known for publishing on human rights, social and economic justice, and media as for its prize-winning American fiction, literature in translation, and poetry collections."
They publish books in English and other languages- "as much as 25% of our list in any given season may be works in translation from the French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Russian, Swedish, Polish, Korean, or Vietnamese among other languages."

​A subsidiary of Random House, they publish fiction, non-fiction, biography, autobiography/memoir, cooking, health, business, and lifestyle.

​They publish an assortment of different books, both nonfiction and fiction and for both adults and children.

​A boutique press based in England that publishes "innovative contemporary poetry and prose from a broad variety of voices and experiences.

"Our books cover a wide range of themes, styles, and genres. We have published poetry, fiction, essays, memoir, biography, titles of Jewish and Middle Eastern interest, women's studies, American Indian folklore, and revived classics, as well as a notable selection of works in translation."
​"The aim of the press is to publish works that endure by meeting high standards of literary merit and relevance."

Years Covered: 2001 to present.
A Canadian prize, though awarded also to international poets: the award is given annually to one Canadian poet and one international author of a work in English. Translators of poetry are also eligible.

Years Covered: 1986 to present.
Awarded annually, the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honors a living US poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.

Years Covered: 1919 to present.
The famous Yale competition honors the first poetry collection of an American poet: writers submit their manuscripts, and the winning collection is published. Past winners have included John Ashbery, Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, and Robert Hass. The website includes guidelines for submitting manuscripts.

Years Covered: 1993 to present.
A pair of annual awards: the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award goes to a poet at mid-career, while the Kate Tufts Discovery Award is awarded for a poet's first book.

Years Covered: 1993 to present.
Administered by the T.S. Eliot Foundation, the T.S. Eliot Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best new collection of poetry published in the UK and Ireland. It has the distinction of being judged by a panel of established poets.