Adult Literature Award Authors
Each year the Literary Awards Committee reads and reviews dozens of books to pick the current year award winners. Books are eligible for review based on the following criteria.
- The author must be a resident (or previously have been a resident for approximately five years) of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota or Wisconsin; or the locale of the book must be in a region identified above.
- The books can be fiction or non-fiction of literary quality (not poetry).
- The book must be published in the calendar year prior to the awards year. Currently we are evaluating books published during the 2012 year.
- The author must not have published more than three books under his/her own pen name, the third book being eligible for consideration. If an author has more than one book published during that year, we will consider all of them.
- Books nominated for the award must be submitted to the FAW Awards Committees by December 10, 2012.
No applications are necessary. We do need to have two copies of each book as early as possible along with biographical material regarding the author. Email FAW with further submission questions. We also give awards to juvenile works. The eligibilty requirements are the same.
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