| New York, NY – January 15, 2025 – Poets & Writers, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization serving creative writers, invites poets and fiction writers from North and South Dakota to apply for the 2025 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award.
Established in 1984, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award aims to provide promising writers a network for professional advancement. The prestigious award has helped to launch the careers of Sue Monk Kidd (The Invention of Wings, The Secret Life of Bees), David Mura (Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei), Craig Santos Perez (from unincorporated territory [åmot]), Mona Simpson (Case), Lidia Yuknavitch (Thrust), and others. Since Poets & Writers began the Writers Exchange in 1984, 114 writers from forty-four U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and three tribal nations have been selected to participate. The award is generously supported by Maureen Mahon Egen, a member of the Poets & Writers Emeritus Board.
This year, writers from the Dakotas are invited to apply. Kali Fajardo-Anstine will judge for fiction and Chet’la Sebree for poetry. One winner in each category will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City to meet with top literary professionals, including editors, agents, publishers, and prominent writers. To be eligible, applicants must have published no more than one full-length book in the genre for which they are applying. Read the full eligibility guidelines and submission details here.
Entries must be submitted by March 1, 2025. |
