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First Book Award Competition
Guidelines for 2007

From Geary Hobson, Project Director of NWCA

Since 1992, the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (NWCA), in conjunction with the Native Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, has been conducting an annual First Book Awards competition. Judges serve each year to evaluate manuscripts in two categories, poetry and prose, before selecting the winners in each. Plans to formulate a consortium of universities and small presses are ongoing in which the winning manuscripts are to be published. The competition is open to writers of Native American background (full-blood, mixed-blood, enrolled, unenrolled, Metis, Canadian First Nations, Alaska Natives, Latin American Natives, etc.). Past winners of the competition, and the titles of their books, may be found on both the University of Oklahoma Native American Studies and the Native Storytellers web pages, and also at literature.awards.com (although this hasn't been updated lately.) Here are the guidelines for the upcoming competition for the year 2006-2007: CLICK HERE