PRH Launches James Baldwin Award for High School Fiction Writers

Aug 02, 2024

Penguin Random House has partnered with the Baldwin family to launch the James Baldwin Award for Fiction, a creative writing award for fiction for public high school students, in honor of the writer and activist's 100th birthday. The award will recognize a student for an original literary composition in English for fiction with a first-place prize of $10,000.

The James Baldwin Award for Fiction will be given by PRH via the publisher's Creative Writing Awards program, alongside the Freedom of Expression Award; the Amanda Gorman Award for Poetry; the Michelle Obama Award for Memoir; the Maya Angelou Award for Spoken Word; and the NYC Entrant Award.

The competition for the inaugural award opens in October 2024 and closes on January 15 or when 1,000 submissions have been received. Current high school seniors who attend public schools in the United States, including the District of Columbia and all U.S. territories, and are planning to attend college—either a two-year or four-year institution—in the fall of 2024 are encouraged to apply. Winners will be announced in June 2025.

For more information, click here.

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