The Fourteenth Annual Awards will be presented May 5, 2011 at the Boston Public Library Boston Authors Club gives annual prizes of $1,000 each for two books (one for young readers). The books must be published the year prior to the award, that is, in 2010 for 2011. The authors must live, have lived or attended college within 100 miles of Boston and resided here at some time within the past five years. Works of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and biography are eligible; picture books, text books and self-published works are not. Two copies of the book, which will not be returned, should be submitted along with $25 per title. Winners, finalists and recommended authors also receive one year complimentary membership in the Club.
Winners have included: James Carroll, Linda Davis, Anita Diamant, Dexter Filkins, Moying Li-Marcus, Igor Lukes, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Charles Mann, Thomas O'Connor, Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, Nicholas Tawa, Brenda Wineapple and Gordon S. Wood. The prizes were renamed for Julia Ward Howe in 2002.
In 2000, a separate award for young readers was added. Winners have included: M.T. Anderson, Pat Lowery Collins, Liza Ketchum, Gordon Morrison, Deborah Savage, Brian Selznick, Carole Vogel, Ellen Wittlinger, Meg Rosoff and Padma Venkatraman.
Special recognition is occasionally given for books with a notable Boston connection or to authors for a body of work.
A category for "Recommended Books" was added in 2004.
Publishers should submit two copies of books published in 2010 (final deadline January 15, 2011) to: Boston Authors Club, 33 Brayton Rd, Brighton 02135 . For more information, contact Alan Lawson, 617-552-8457,
And the winners now posted were for the 13th Annual awards.
THE BOSTON AUTHOR'S CLUB 13th ANNUAL AWARDS -- 2010
