Contest/Scholarships

Contest | Luso Scholarships

Congratulations to our 2013 International Literary Award and Luso-American Scholarship Winners!

Congratulations to Catriona Wright of Toronto, Ontario, winner of the third annual Dzanc Books / Guernica International Literary Award for her short story “Veils”! This year's pool was particularly competitive, with around 300 very strong entries touching in some way on the world outside the borders of North America. Finalists and semi-finalists will be awarded partial scholarships to the DISQUIET 2013 program in Lisbon.

Contest Finalists:

Kenzie Allen, “Meredith," "How I Remember It," and "Forensics"

Rachel Cantor, “Lost Opportunity Costs”

Courtney Maum, “Metronome”

J. Kevin Shushtari, “The Fragrant Smoke of Aspand Seeds”

In addition, four North American writers of Luso descent were awarded full scholarships to attend DISQUIET 2013 through a partnership with the Luso-American Development Foundation, with partial scholarships awarded to finalists and semi-finalists.

The 2013 scholarship winners are:

Chris Arnold (fiction)

Marie Carvalho (poetry) 

Anne-Marie Ross (nonfiction)

Amy Souza (fiction)

Congratulations to all winners and finalists!

 You can still apply for the International Literary Program as long as spaces remain. The application page is here.

 

Contest | Luso Scholarships

2013 ILP International Literature Award

2013 Contest Guidelines:

FINAL JUDGE: TBA

Deadline: January 31, 2013

The charge went that American literature is too insular, that it’s neither concerned with nor does it engage the outside world. The critic was the Secretary of the Swedish Academy that decides the Nobel Prize. You can be sure that Canadian literature was lumped in there as well. We’re afraid that, to a degree, he was right.

Also, of course, in many ways he was wrong. Maybe a certain stripe of North American literature is too insular. Maybe a certain stripe does not engage the outside world. But the rivulets of work that do engage and which are anything but insular—these rivulets run deep.

The ILP hopes to encourage this tradition with its annual contest, which seeks to award the author of the winning entry airfare, accommodations, and tuition to the Disquiet program in Lisbon, Portugal in 2013 AND publication of the winning piece in the magazine of art and politics Guernica. Finalists and other entrants deemed to be of the highest quality will be offered partial tuition scholarships and may be considered for publication.

What to submit: We wish to cast the net wide in our definition of eligible entries. Work of any genre (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) that broadens the landscape of North American literature outside of the borders of North America is eligible. Examples of eligible entries, to give you an idea, might include a poem about a Hungarian grandmother; an essay based on your time in some foreign land--maybe travel writing, maybe more conventional journalism, maybe something in between; a short story featuring a North American abroad a la, perhaps, Paul Bowles... But these should not be read as sign posts. We want to be surprised. In general, if your work flies in the face of this charge of insularity, submit it.

Eligibility: Entries must be in English. Writers must live or have lived in Canada or the United States but need not necessarily be citizens or permanent residents. Entries may not be previously published.

Length: One entry may include three poems or a single prose piece up to thirty double-spaced pages in length. Multiple entries must be accompanied by multiple reading fees. Poets wishing to submit more than three poems may do so by including additional reading fees. Prose submissions more than thirty pages are ineligible.

Reading fee: $15USD (Checks made payable to Dzanc Books; if check is drawn in Canadian funds, please use converter here for the proper amount.) Reading fee may be applied to ILP tuition in the event entrant does not win.

Deadline: January 31, 2013

How to enter:

By regular mail: Send the entry and the reading fee, to the following address
Dzanc Books

ILP International Literature Award
50 Day Ave #2

Northampton, MA 01060
USA

 

Electronically:
Fill out the form and submit your work at http://disquietinternational.submittable.com

Questions: disquietinternational@gmail.com

*In the event that a winner is not chosen, all entrants will receive refunds in full on their entry fees. Though unlikely, the ILP reserves the right to award the winner a cash prize of $1,000USD in lieu of the ILP related prize (airfare, accommodations, and tuition).

Scholarships

A collaboration between Dzanc Books and the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) has made possible four full scholarships for writers of Luso descent from North America to attend the ILP in Lisbon in 2013.

To be eligible for the scholarship, entrants must be residents of the United States or Canada who have a genealogical link to a Lusophone country.

The four winners will receive airfare, accommodations, and full tuition to the 2013 ILP in Lisbon to attend Katherine Vaz’s multi-genre workshop “Writing the Luso Experience” with other writers from Portugal and North America.** Runners-up will be offered partial tuition scholarships.

What to submit: 1) A 250-word statement about your background and what the scholarship would mean to you. 2) A maximum ten page writing sample in any genre (poetry, fiction, nonfiction). Entries should be in English.

Reading fee: $20USD (Checks made payable to Dzanc Books; if check is drawn in Canadian funds, please use converter here for the proper amount.) Reading fee may be applied to ILP tuition in the event entrant does not win.

Deadline: Postmark or electronic mail date stamp of Jan. 31, 2013.

How to enter:

 

Electronically:

Fill out the online application.

**In the event that a winner is not chosen, all entrants will receive refunds in full on their entry fees. This prize is contingent on funding allotments from FLAD and while it is unlikely it is possible that the number or the amount of individual awards may be reduced. In this eventuality winners will be notified in advance.

Questions: disquietinternational@gmail.com