Awards from NALS 2011
Native American Literature Symposium Awards for 2011
Sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
Submissions due January 15, 2011The Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies
This award will be given for an outstanding essay published in 2010.2010 Winner: An Anishinaabe Tribalography: Investigating and Interweaving Conceptions of Identity during the 1910s on the White Earth Reservation
Jill Doerfler2009 Winner: "Native America Writes Back: The Origin of the Indigenous Paradigm in Historiography."
Susan A. Miller2008 Winner: "Living My Native Life Deadly": Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides."
Jodi Byrd2007 Winner: American Indian Literary Nationalism
Robert Warrior, Jace Weaver, and Craig Womack
The Morning Star Award in Creative Writing
This award honors those early Native writers whose voices guide us today. The Morning Star Award will given to an emerging creative writer for a first manuscript and will alternate between prose and poetry. An author may submit in only one genre. 2011 submissions will be in poetry.In addition to the manuscript, the applicants or nominees should submit a short (2-3 page) essay about the literary significance of one of the women listed below playing closest attention to their fiction, poetry, or plays.
How does their work speak to you as an emerging author, and to generations of American Indian writers?Jane Schoolcraft
Alice Callahan
Pauline Johnson
Zitkala-Sa
Ella Deloria
2010 Winner: Red Milk by Sara Ortiz
Send inquiries, nominations, or submissions to pjhafen@unlv.nevada.edu