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Apply Now for Wyoming Arts Council’s 2025 Memorial Writing Awards

Featured News, Fellowships | September 19, 2024

The Wyoming Arts Council is now accepting applications for the 2025 Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature and Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman. The Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award of $1,000 is given annually for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script informed by a relationship with the natural world. The Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award, also $1,000, is given for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script written by a woman writer. 

Both awards are designed to bring attention to writers in Wyoming who have not yet received wide recognition for their work, and to support emerging writers at crucial times in their careers. Poets, fiction writers, essayists, and script writers who have published no more than one book in each genre and who are not full-time students or faculty members are invited to apply by submitting manuscripts and an entry form by the deadline.

The application deadline is November 14, 2024. Applications are accepted online via Submittable.

The juror for this year is Dawn Wink. Wink, PhD  is a writer and educator whose work explores wildness, beauty, and imagination. Wink’s novel, Meadowlark, was awarded the Women Writing the West WILLA Award for Historical Fiction/Finalist, High Plains Book Award for Woman Writer/Finalist, and NM/AZ Book Awards for Historical Fiction/Finalist. Other publications include, Teaching Passionately: What’s Love got To Do With It?, co-written with Joan Wink, “Wild Waters: Landscapes of Language,” and “Language, Culture, and Land: Lenses of Lilies.” Wink lives with her family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature and the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman are made possible through the generosity of Neltje.

A complete list of eligibility requirements and additional information can be found at the application link above. For more information, contact Kimberly Mittelstadt at 307-274-6673 or Kimberly.mittelstadt@wyo.gov.

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