Guidelines 2008
(submissions deadline October 31, 2008)
A NOTE OF ENCOURAGEMENT to all our entrants: In 2006, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW named as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year in Non-Fiction our 2001 winner of the Dana Award in the Novel. To explain: Danielle Trussoni's novel, originally titled Tunnel Rat, which won our 2001 Novel Award, was subsequently re-worked as a memoir of her relationship with her father, a Viet Nam vet, and published in 2006 as FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH, which rose to the top 10 of the New York Times Book Review for Non-Fiction for that year.
Please read guidelines carefully
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL DANA
AWARDS 2008
POSTMARK DEADLINE OCTOBER 31, 2008
3 AWARDS: Novel, Short Fiction, Poetry // $3,000 in
awards
Important change:
A fourth
award, the $3,000 PORTFOLIO AWARD, offered from 2003-2007, HAS BEEN
SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. OTHER SOURCES WHICH LIST THE
PORTFOLIO AWARD ARE NOT CORRECT (UNAVOIDABLE, NOT THEIR ERROR) SINCE THEY
WERE PUBLISHED BEFORE WE SUSPENDED THE AWARD (SOME SOURCES MUST GATHER
INFORMATION AND PRINT 2-3 YEARS IN ADVANCE).
POSTMARK DEADLINE OCTOBER 31, 2008
RESULTS LETTERS by May, 2009
by e-mail if you include
e-mail address, or by snail-mail if you include a SASE
WEBSITE www.danaawards.com
E-MAIL danaawards@ pipeline.com
Questions only. No
e-mail submissions.
IMPORTANT: ALL WORK MUST BE UNPUBLISHED WHEN SUBMITTED
TO US AND NOT PROMISED FOR PUBLICATION, EITHER IN PRINT OR ONLINE.
POEMS OR STORIES ALREADY PUBLISHED INDIVIDUALLY ARE NOT ELIGIBLE, EVEN IF
SENT FROM PART OF A LARGER BOOK WHICH HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED.
MAY SIMULTANEOUSLY SUBMIT since we publish only in very rare years when we have
an agreement with a literary journal. If your work is accepted elsewhere
meantime, you can still win our monetary awards.
IMPORTANT: FOR ALL AWARDS, THE
TERM MANUSCRIPT DOES NOT MEAN A FULL BOOK.: We mean first 50 pages for a
Novel ms., 1 short story for a Short Fiction ms., and 5 poems for a Poetry
ms.
OUR 3 AWARDS
DANA AWARD FOR THE NOVEL is $1,000
for the
first 50 pages ONLY of a novel either completed or in progress
(in-progress submissions should be as polished as possible). All
types of novels accepted (NO MEMOIRS). No novels for or by persons
under 16. Typed, double-spaced only.
DANA AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION is $1,000
for the best short fiction (NO MEMOIRS). No stories for or by persons under 16. Typed, double-spaced only.
DANA AWARD FOR POETRY is $1,000
for the best group of 5 poems, judged on the overall excellence of all 5. 5 poems per entry. No light verse or verse for or by persons under 16. Poems may be thematically related but need not be. Poems longer than 100 lines are discouraged. Typed, single-spaced preferred.
READING FEES
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$15 per 5 poems
$15 per short story
$25 per
novel entry
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MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: "DANA AWARDS"
From outside U.S., send INTERNATIONAL money orders,
traveler's checks, or bank checks (all must be formally stamped by the
issuing bank as "U.S. funds" AND
must be drawn on U.S. banks only).
COVER SHEET: Include SEPARATE COVER SHEET with name,
address, phone number, e-mail address, title(s) of work(s) submitted.
NO AUTHOR'S NAME ON MANUSCRIPT.
SASE FOR RESULTS ONLY. NO MSS. RETURNED.
MAIL SUBMISSIONS TO:
MARY ELIZABETH PARKER, CHAIR
DANA AWARDS
200 FOSSEWAY DRIVE
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA USA 27455
FOR QUESTIONS ONLY, E-MAIL AT THIS ADDRESS danaawards@pipeline.com