Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction

Creative nonfiction: compelling, groundbreaking memoirs and essay collections that embrace real subjects and true events through literary techniques more commonly associated with fiction or poetry. The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) is a nonprofit organization of writers, teachers, colleges, and universities. The creative nonfiction competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence. Winners receive a $2,000 cash honorarium from AWP and publication by the University of Georgia Press.

Books in this series

Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
Sue William Silverman

Campus Sexpot
A Memoir
David Carkeet

City
An Essay
Brian Lennon

Companion to an Untold Story
Marcia Aldrich

Darkroom
A Family Exposure
Jill Christman

Dough
A Memoir
Mort Zachter

The Flatness and Other Landscapes
Michael Martone

Ghostbread
Sonja Livingston

Increase
Lia Purpura

Jesus Sound Explosion
Mark Curtis Anderson

Last Day on Earth
A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter
David Vann

Maps to Anywhere
Bernard Cooper
Foreword by Richard Howard

Moses Unchained
Marilyn F. Moriarty

The Riots
Danielle Cadena Deulen

Surrendered Child
A Birth Mother's Journey
Karen Salyer McElmurray

Themes for English B
A Professor's Education In and Out of Class
J. D. Scrimgeour

Vanished Gardens
Finding Nature in Philadelphia
Sharon White






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