The First Pages Prize 2023

FIRST PAGES PRIZE IS GROWING!

THE 2023 PRIZE WILL SELECT THREE WINNERS IN EACH CATEGORY
OF FICTION & CREATIVE NONFICTION.

WE SUPPORT EMERGING WRITERS WITH
CASH AWARDS (1st – $2,000, 2nd – $1,500, 3rd – $1000),
DEVELOPMENTAL MENTORING, AND AN AGENT CONSULTATION.

PRIZE OPENS MARCH 1ST

OUR 2023 PRIZE JUDGES

Fiction Judge
Tash Aw

Tash Aw is the author of four critically-acclaimed novels, including, most recently, We, the Survivors, as well as a memoir of a Chinese-Malaysian family, Strangers on a Pier. His writing has won numerous honours, including the Whitbread Prize, Commonwealth Prize and an O. Henry Award, as well as being twice longlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. His novels have been translated into twenty-three languages. A regular contributor to the New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, his work has also appeared in the London Review of Books, Le Magazine Littéraire, A Public Space and the landmark Granta 100, among many others.

Creative Nonfiction Judge

Patricia Hampl

With her books, A Romantic Education, Virgin Time and Blue Arabesque, Patricia Hampl has helped define what Booklist has called “the memoir of discovery.” In addition, Hampl has made contributions as an editor and contributor to works defining and extending the understanding of autobiographical writing including Tell Me True and We Shall Bear Witness: Life Narratives and Human Rights. Several her books have been named “Notable Books” of the year by The New York Times Book Review and her fiction, poems, reviews, essays and travel pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Granta, The American Scholar, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. She is a MacArthur Fellow and has also received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (twice, in poetry and prose), Ingram Merrill Foundation and Djerassi Foundation. Her collection on first person writing, I Could Tell You Stories, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Patricia Hampl is Regents Professor emerita at the University of Minnesota, and a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Writers Program. She has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and was Visiting Professor in the Centre for Life Narratives at Kingston University-London. Her most recent books are The Florist’s Daughter and The Art of the Wasted Day.

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FIRST PAGES PRIZE IS GROWING!

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