James Duval Phelan Award
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The James D. Phelan Award is a literary award
offered annually to promising young California writers. The award is sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and administered by Intersection for the Arts
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The award is intended to encourage young writers of an unpublished manuscript that is completed or in-progress. All applicants must, therefore, be between 20 and 35 years of age. There is no entry fee required to apply for this award.
Applicants must have been born in the state of California but need not be current residents. The unpublished work-in-progress submitted may be fiction (novel or short stories), nonfictional prose, poetry, graphic novel, or drama. Plays may be submitted in standard script format.
This award is part of the annual Literary Competition administered by Intersection for the Arts' Literary Series
. The competition includes two other awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award
and the Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
. In recent years, several Literary Competition award-winners have secured publishing deals with major publishing houses such as St. Martin’s Press, Simon & Schuster, Random House, and Knopf as a result of these awards. Former award recipients include Philip Levine, Ernest J. Gaines, Al Young, Michael Palmer, Frank Chin, Jane Hirschfield, Lyn Hejinian, David St. John, Dagoberto Gilb, and Sallie Tisdale.
Literary award
A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...
offered annually to promising young California writers. The award is sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and administered by Intersection for the Arts
Intersection for the Arts
Intersection for the Arts, established in 1965, is the oldest alternative non-profit art space in San Francisco, California. Intersection's reading series is the longest continuous reading series outside of an academic institution in the state of California....
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The award is intended to encourage young writers of an unpublished manuscript that is completed or in-progress. All applicants must, therefore, be between 20 and 35 years of age. There is no entry fee required to apply for this award.
Applicants must have been born in the state of California but need not be current residents. The unpublished work-in-progress submitted may be fiction (novel or short stories), nonfictional prose, poetry, graphic novel, or drama. Plays may be submitted in standard script format.
This award is part of the annual Literary Competition administered by Intersection for the Arts' Literary Series
Intersection for the Arts Literary Series
The Intersection for the Arts Literary Series is the longest running literary series outside of an academic institution in the state of California...
. The competition includes two other awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award
Joseph Henry Jackson Award
The Joseph Henry Jackson Award is a literary award offered annually to promising young California writers. The award is sponsored by and administered by Intersection for the Arts. There is no entry fee to apply for this award. Recipients receive $2000....
and the Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
The Mary Tanenbaum Award is a literary award offered annually to promising young California writers. The award is sponsored by and administered by Intersection for the Arts. There is no entry fee to apply for this award....
. In recent years, several Literary Competition award-winners have secured publishing deals with major publishing houses such as St. Martin’s Press, Simon & Schuster, Random House, and Knopf as a result of these awards. Former award recipients include Philip Levine, Ernest J. Gaines, Al Young, Michael Palmer, Frank Chin, Jane Hirschfield, Lyn Hejinian, David St. John, Dagoberto Gilb, and Sallie Tisdale.