The Sarabande Prize in the Essay, selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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The Sarabande Prize in the Essay is awarded annually to one full-length manuscript of literary nonfiction: an essay collection or book-length essay. The prize includes $2,000, publication of the work, a standard royalty contract, and an introduction written by the guest judge.
ELIGIBILITY
This contest is open to any nonfiction writing in English. Employees and board members of Sarabande are not eligible. Agented manuscripts are not eligible. Individual essays from the manuscript may have been published previously in magazines, chapbooks of less than 48 pages, or anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Translations and previously published collections are not eligible. To avoid conflict of interest, close friends of a judge or current students in a degree-granting program with a judge are not eligible.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- Manuscript must be anonymous
- Manuscript must be typed, standard font, 12 pt.
- Manuscript must be between 150 and 250 pages
- Manuscript must be paginated consecutively with a table of contents
- Cover letter or manuscript should include acknowledgements list (a list of publications in which essays in the manuscript have appeared)
- Submission must be accompanied by a $34 submission fee
Multiple submissions are permitted if submitted separately, each with a submission fee. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are permitted, but please withdraw the submission if accepted elsewhere.
Sarabande Books considers all finalists for publication.