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Deadline: September 30. “The Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing celebrate works in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and poetry. A national panel of judges reviews hundreds of nominated books and poems looking for works that ask readers to engage with the complexities of the U.S. South.” Winners receive cash prizes ($12,000 for fiction and nonfiction winners; $3,000 for the poetry winner). “Winners also receive an expenses-paid trip to Oxford, Miss., where we celebrate the winning writers as part of the Oxford Conference for the Book.” For fiction and nonfiction, “books must be published during the submission year and cannot be self-published. Advance reader copies or proofs for books that will be published in October, November or December” are acceptable. For poetry, “poets may submit one original, unpublished poem no longer than three pages that evokes the American South.”
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