Prize-winners at the Livingston Lord Library*

American Association for the History of Medicine
William H. Welch Medal
The William H. Welch Medal is awarded "one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during the five calendar years preceding the award."

American Book Award
" . . . a book award that would, for the first time, respect and honor excellence in American literature without restriction or bias with regard to race, sex, creed, cultural origin, size of press or ad budget, or even genre. There would be no requirements, restrictions, limitations, or second places. There would be no categories (i.e., no “best” novel or only one “best” of anything). The winners would not selected by any set quota for diversity (nor would “mainstream white anglo male” authors be excluded), because diversity happens naturally. Finally, there would be no losers, only winners. The only criteria would be outstanding contribution to American literature in the opinion of the judges."

American Historical Association
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize is given annually for a distinguished book by an American author in the field of European history. Together with the Leo Gershoy Award, the Adams Prize is the most important distinction bestowed by the profession in the field of European history and thus has considerable prestige.
George Louis Beer Prize
The George Louis Beer Prize is offered in recognition of outstanding historical writing on any phase of European international history since 1895.
Albert J. Beveridge Award
The Beveridge Award is given annually for the best book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 to the present.
Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History
The Birdsall Prize is currently awarded biennially for the most important work on European military or strategic history since 1870 by a citizen of the United States or Canada.
James Henry Breasted Prize
The James Henry Breasted Prize is awarded for the best book in English on any field of history prior to the year 1000 A.D.
Albert B. Corey Prize in Canadian-American Relations
The Corey Prize is sponsored jointly by the American Historical Association and the Canadian Historical Association. This biennial prize is awarded in even numbered years for the best book on Canadian-American relations or on the history of both countries.
John H. Dunning Prize for U.S. history
The prize is offered for the best book on any subject pertaining to the history of the United States.
John E. Fagg Prize for the best publication in the history of Spain and Latin America
This prize will be conferred annually for the best publication in the history of Spain and Latin America from 2001 to 2011.
John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History
The Fairbank Prize is awarded for the best work on the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan since the year 1800.
The Herbert Feis Award
This prize is offered annually to recognize distinguished contributions to public history during the previous ten years.
The Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history
The Morris D. Forkosch Prize is offered biennially in odd years in recognition of the best book in English in the field of British, British Imperial, or British Commonwealth history. It replaces the Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize covering the same fields.
The Leo Gershoy Award for 17th- and 18th-century West European history
This prize is awarded to the author of the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history.
The Clarence H. Haring Prize for Latin American history by a Latin American
The Haring Prize is a quinquennial prize awarded to the Latin American author who has published the most outstanding book on Latin American history during the five years preceding the year of the award.
The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History
This prize is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928-1982).
The Martin A. Klein Prize in African History
The Klein Prize recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on African history published in English during the previous year.
The Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society
This prize is awarded for the best book in any subject on the history of American law and society.
The J. Russell Major Prize on the history of France
The prize is awarded annually for the best work in English on any aspect of French history.
The Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian or Italian-U. S. history
The prize is awarded annually for the best work on Italian history in any epoch, in Italian cultural history, or in Italian American relations.
The George L. Mosse Prize for European intellectual and cultural history since the Renaissance
The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since the Renaissance.
The Premio del Rey for early Spanish history
The prize is awarded biennially for the best book written on the medieval periods in Spain's history and culture 500-1516 A.D.
The James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History
John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History
The John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on South Asian history published in English during the previous calendar year.
The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history
This prize is awarded for an outstanding book on some aspect of the history of the dispersion, settlement, and adjustment, and the return of peoples originally from Africa.

American Political Science Association
Ralph J. Bunche Award
The Ralph J. Bunche Award is given each year for the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous calendar year which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.
Gladys M. Kammerer Award
The Gladys M. Kammerer award is given each year for the best political science publication in the previous calendar year in the field of U.S. national policy.
Benjamin E. Lippincott Award
The Benjamin E. Lippincott Award is given every other year for a work of exceptional quality by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original publication.
Victoria Schuck Award
The Victoria Schuck award is given each year for the best book published the previous year on women and politics.
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award is given annually by the American Political Science Association for the best book published in the U.S. on government, politics or international affairs.

American Society for Environmental History
George Perkins Marsh Prize
The ASEH aspires to advance a greater understanding of the history of human interaction with the rest of the natural world, to foster dialogue between humanistic scholarship, environmental science, and other disciplines, and to support global environmental history efforts that benefit the public as well as the general scholarly community.

The American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Through publications, grants and awards, conferences, and the work of its committees, the Association provides a forum for the development and dissemination of discographic information in all fields and periods of recording and in all sound media. In addition, ARSC works to encourage the preservation of historical recordings, to promote the exchange and dissemination of research and information about them, and to foster an increased awareness of the importance of recorded sound as part of any cultural heritage.

Association of American Geographers
AAG Meridian Book Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography
Awarded to a book that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography.
Globe Book Award
Awarded to those books that document the ways the nominated work conveys the nature and importance of geography to the non-academic world.
John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize
Established to encourage and reward American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is interesting and attractive to a lay audience.

Association of American Publishers
As part of its commitment to excellence in professional and scholarly publishing, the division sponsors a prestigious annual awards program, open only to members.

The Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University in the City of New York. Under the terms of the will of the late Fredric Bancroft, provision is made for two annual prizes of equal rank to be awarded to the authors of distinguished works in either or both of the following categories: American History (including biography) and Diplomacy.

The Berkshire Conference First Book Prize
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians formed in the early decades of the 20th century in response to women academics' sense of professional isolation.  The Berkshire Conference First Book Prize is a prize for a first book in any field of history written by a woman who is normally resident in North America.

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association serves as an advocate for the development, promotion, and improvement of library services and resources to the nation's African American community; and provides leadership for the recruitment and professional development of African American librarians.  The Fiction Award recognizes depictions of sensitive and authentic personal experience either within the framework of contemporary literary standards and themes or which explore innovative literary formats; the Nonfiction Award honors cultural, historical, political, or social criticism or academic and/or professional research which significantly advances the body of knowledge currently associated with the people and the legacy of the Black Diaspora.

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are Britain’s oldest literary awards.

Two prizes, each of £10,000, are awarded annually by the University for the best work of fiction and the best biography published in the previous year.

They are the only awards of their kind to be presented by a university and have acquired an international reputation for recognising excellence in biography and fiction that continues today.

Canadian Historical Society-Societe Historique du Canada
The CHA represents the interests of historians and the heritage community to government, archives, granting and other agencies; organizes conferences; publishes the best of Canadian historical scholarship; and awards a range of prizes to historians who have produced exceptional work.

The Charles C. Eldredge Prize
The Charles C. Eldredge Prize is awarded annually by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American art that provides new insight into works of art, the artists who made them, or aspects of history and theory that enrich our understanding of America's artistic heritage.

The Costa Book Awards (formerly, The Whitbread Awards)

Forest History Society
Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
This award rewards superior scholarship in forest and conservation history.

The Governor General's Literary Awards
The Governor General's Literary Awards are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language book in each of the seven categories of Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature (text), Children's Literature (illustration) and Translation (from French to English).  Books must be first foreign or first Canadian edition trade books that have been written, translated or illustrated by Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada.
From the early years into the modern era
From the October crisis to the present

Guardian First Book Award
The Guardian first book award was established in 1999 to reward the finest new literary talent.  Unique among book awards, it is open to writing across all genres and judged by both a celebrity panel and members of the public who participate through reading groups run by Waterstone's stores.

Herbert Hoover Book Prize
The Herbert Hoover Book Award honors the best scholarly book on any aspect of American history during President Hoover's long and momentous public life.

History of Science Society
The Pfizer Award is awarded in recognition of an outstanding book dealing with the history of science.
The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize honors books in the history of science directed to a wide public (including undergraduate instruction).  They should be introductory in assuming no previous knowledge of the subject and in being directed to audiences of beginning students and general readers. They should introduce an entire field, a chronological period, a national tradition, or the work of a noteworthy individual.
The Suzanne J. Levinson Prize is awarded biennially for a book in the history of the life sciences and natural history.

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind.  Books are nominated by libraries from all corners of the globe, and the competition is open to books written in any language.

J. I. Staley Prize
The School of American Research (SAR) presents the J. I. Staley Prize to a living author for a book that exemplifies outstanding scholarship and writing in anthropology. The award recognizes innovative works that go beyond traditional frontiers and dominant schools of thought in anthropology and add new dimensions to our understanding of the human species. It honors books that cross subdisciplinary boundaries within anthropology and reach out in new and expanded interdisciplinary directions.

The Jamestown Prize
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture offers a biennial, $3,000 cash prize to an exceptional book-length scholarly manuscript pertaining to the histories and cultures of North America from circa 1450 to1820, including related developments in the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Africa —in short, any subject encompassing the Atlantic world in this period.

The K-K Awards
The And/Or Book Awards (formerly the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards) have been made annually since 1985, and have alternated yearly between books on photography and books on the moving image.  The winning books have been those which make original and lasting educational, professional, historical, technical, scientific, social, literary or cultural contributions to the field.

The Kiriyama Prize
The Kiriyama Prize was established in 1996 to recognize outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally diverse region.  This prize has been suspended as of 14 September 2008.

The Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College
The Prize, supervised and awarded by the five trustees of the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute, is intended chiefly to encourage outstanding new scholarship, but a lifetime contribution to the study of Lincoln, or the American Civil War soldier, may qualify for the award.

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980.

The Man Booker Prize
This literary prize is sponsored by Man Group and administered by the National Book League in the United Kingdom. It is awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan or South Africa.

Minnesota Book Awards

Modern Language Association prize for independent scholars
Awarded for a distinguished scholarly book published in 2006 in the field of English or another modern language or literature to recognize and further encourage the achievements and contributions of independent scholars.

National Book Award
Through the National Book Awards -- the nation's preeminent literary prize -- the National Book Foundation recognizes books of exceptional merit written by Americans.
Arts and Letters
Children's/Young People's Literature
Contemporary Affairs
Fiction
History and Biography
Nonfiction
Poetry
Science/Philosophy/Religion

National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of nearly 700 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns.

National Communication Association
The NCA is the oldest and largest national organization serving the academic discipline of Communication. Through its services, scholarly publications, resources, conferences and conventions, NCA works with its members to strengthen the profession and contribute to the greater good of the educational enterprise and society. Research and instruction in the discipline focus on the study of how messages in various media are produced, used, and interpreted within and across different contexts, channels, and cultures.

The New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards
Formed in 1935 in reaction to dissatisfaction with Pulitzer Prizes in drama.

The Nobel Prize in literature

North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Outstanding Book Award
This award is presented to the author of the most outstanding book published in the current and previous two calendar years.  The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport is organized exclusively for educational purposes to promote, stimulate, and encourage the sociological study of play, games, and sport, to support and cooperate with local, national and international organizations having the same purposes, and to organize and arrange meetings and issue publications concerning the purpose of the Society.

The Orange Broadband Prize for fiction
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is awarded to the woman who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English.  The prize is open to any full length novel, written in English by a woman of any nationality, provided that the novel is published for the first time in the United Kingdom between 1 April of the year before the prize is awarded and 31 March of the year in which the prize is awarded.

The Organization of American Historians
Ray Allen Billington Prize
The Ray Allen Billington Prize is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American frontier history, defined broadly so as to include the pioneer periods of all geographical areas and comparisons between American frontiers and others.
Avery O. Craven Award
The Avery O. Craven Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history.
Merle Curti Award
The Merle Curti Award is given annually for the best book in social, intellectual, and/or cultural history. The committee may decide to give the award to two books, one in social history and one in intellectual history.
Ellis W. Hawley Prize
The Ellis W. Hawley Prize is awarded annually for the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present.
Richard W. Leopold Prize
The Richard W. Leopold Prize was designed to improve contacts and interrelationships within the historical profession where an increasing number of history-trained scholars hold distinguished positions in governmental agencies. This prize recognizes the significant historical work being done by historians outside academe. The Leopold Prize is given by the Organization of American Historians every two years for the best book written by a historian connected with federal, state or municipal government. Areas of study include: foreign policy, military affairs broadly construed, the activities of the federal government or biography in one of the foregoing areas.
Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
Inspired by OAH President Darlene Clark Hine's call in her 2002 OAH presidential address for more research on the origins of the civil rights movement in the period before 1954, the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award is given for the best book on any historical aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the United States from the nation's founding to the present.
James A. Rawley Prize
The James A. Rawley Prize, given for the first time in 1990, is awarded annually for a book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States.
Frederick Jackson Turner Award
The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, first given in 1959 as the Prize Studies Award of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, has been given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on some significant phase of American history and also to the press that submits and publishes it.

Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards
The Christian Gauss Award is offered for books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. The prize was established by the Phi Beta Kappa Senate in 1950 to honor the late Christian Gauss, the distinguished Princeton University scholar, teacher and dean who also served as President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. To be eligible, a literary biography must have a predominantly critical emphasis.
The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is offered for outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science. It was first offered in 1959. The intent of the award is to encourage literate and scholarly interpretations of the physical and biological sciences and mathematics. Monographs and compendiums are not eligible. To be eligible, biographies of scientists must have a substantial critical emphasis on their scientific research.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award is offered for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity. Established in 1960, this award may recognize work in the fields of history, philosophy and religion. These fields are conceived in sufficiently broad terms to permit the inclusion of appropriate work in related fields such as anthropology and the social sciences. Biographies of public figures may be eligible if their primary critical emphasis is on the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.

Pulitzer Prizes
Biography or Autobiography
For a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author
Drama
For a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life
Fiction
For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life
General non-fiction
For a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category
History
For a distinguished book upon the history of the United States
Music
For distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year
Poetry
For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author

Royal Historical Society
The Gladstone History Book Prize
The Royal Historical Society offers an annual award of £1,000 for a history book published in Britain on any topic that is not primarily British history. To be eligible for the prize the book must be its author's first solely written book on a historical subject which is not primarily related to British history. The book must also be an original and scholarly work or historical research and have been published in English during the calendar year by a scholar normally resident in the United Kingdom.
The Whitfield Book Prize
The Royal Historical Society annually offers the Whitfield prize (value £1,000) for a new book on British or Irish history. To be eligible for consideration the book must be on a subject within a field of British or Irish history and have been published in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland during the calendar year. It must also be its author's first solely written book and be an original and scholarly work of historical research.

Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books celebrates the very best in popular science writing.

Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction
The BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is the richest non fiction prize in the UK, worth £20,000 to the winner.

Sponsored by the BBC, the prize aims to reward the best of non-fiction and is open to authors of all non-fiction books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.

Sierra Book Prize
The Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize is awarded for the best monograph in the field of history published by a current member of the Western Association of Women Historians.

Society for Cinema and Media Studies
The Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award
Founded in 1959, SCMS is a professional organization of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image.  The award honors outstanding scholarship in film and media studies.

Society for History in the Federal Government
Henry Adams Prize
This annual award is given for an outstanding major publication on the federal government's history. Entries may be narrative histories, edited collections of articles or essays, or any other published historical work of comparable scope. The Adams Prize is given to an individual or to principal collaborators. Entries are judged for value in furthering the understanding and history of the federal government; quality and thoroughness of research; style and appropriateness of presentation; suitability and rigor of methodology; and use of original and primary materials.
George Pendleton Prize
This annual award is given for an outstanding major publication, on the federal government's history produced by or for a federal history program. The Pendleton Prize is given to an individual author or to principal collaborators. The type of work eligible and the criteria that judges will apply for quality are identical to those for the Adams Prize. The Pendleton Prize has the additional requirement that the publication nominated must have been produced by a federal historian(s) or for a federal history program, including history offices in the federal agencies and history-related programs in other federal entities.
Thomas Jefferson Prize (for documentary editions and research tools)
The award for a documentary edition will recognize the editor(s) of a documentary history project publishing either a single volume or one or more volumes in a project that contributes significantly to our understanding of the history of the federal government.  The award for research tools will recognize the creator(s) of an outstanding research aid (e.g., an inventory, an index, a finding aid, a biographical directory, or a bibliography) that facilitates the work of those doing research in the history of the federal government.

The Society for Military History
The Distinguished Book Awards recognize the best book-length publications in English on military history, whether monograph, bibliography, guide, or other project copyrighted in the previous three calendar years. Awards are given out at the Society's annual meeting the spring following the competition.

Society for the History of Technology
The Sally Hacker Prize was established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy to toward a broad audience.
The Sidney Edelstein Prize (previously known as the Dexter Prize) is awarded to the author of an outstanding scholarly book in the history of technology published during the preceding three years.

Society for the Study of Social Problems
C. Wright Mills Award
Consistent with Mills' dedication to a search for a sophisticated understanding of the individual and society, this award is given for that book that most effectively (1) critically addresses an issue of contemporary public importance, (2) brings to the topic a fresh, imaginative perspective, (3) advances social scientific understanding of the topic, (4) displays a theoretically informed view and empirical orientation, (5) evinces quality in style of writing, and (6) explicitly or implicitly contains implications for courses of action.

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Charles Horton Cooley Award
The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction is an international social science professional organization of scholars interested in qualitative, especially interactionist, research.  This award is given annually to a scholar for the publication of a book that represents an important contribution in the field of symbolic interaction.

Society of American Historians
Francis Parkman Prize
The Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually for the best nonfiction book on an American theme published the previous year.
James Fenimore Cooper Prize
The James Fenimore Cooper Prize is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years for a book of historical fiction on an American subject which makes a significant contribution to historical understanding, portrays authentically the people and events of the historical past, and displays skills in narrative construction and prose style.

The Spur Award (Western Writers of America)
The Spur Awards, given annually for distinguished writing about the American West, are among the oldest and most prestigious in American literature. In 1953, when the awards were established by WWA, western fiction was a staple of American publishing. At the time awards were given to the best western novel, best historical novel, best juvenile, and best short story.

Since then the awards have been broadened to include other types of writing about the West. Today, Spurs are offered for the best western novel (short novel), best novel of the west (long novel), best original paperback novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best TV or motion picture drama, best TV or motion picture documentary, and best first novel (called The Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award).

The Tony Awards®
under construction
The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards® got their start in 1947 when the Wing established an awards program to celebrate excellence in the theatre.

Named for Antoinette Perry, an actress, director, producer, and the dynamic wartime leader of the American Theatre Wing who had recently passed away, the Tony Awards made their official debut at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1947.

University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education
The purpose of this award is to stimulate the dissemination, public scrutiny and implementation of ideas that have potential to bring about significant improvement in educational practice and advances in educational attainment. The award is intended not only to reward the individuals responsible, but also to draw attention to their ideas, proposals or achievements. The award is designed to recognize a specific recent achievement rather than a lifetime of accomplishment.

University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music
This award is presented in recognition of outstanding achievement by a living composer in a large musical genre: choral, orchestral, chamber, electronic, song-cycle, dance, opera, musical theater, extended solo work and more.

Walt Whitman Award
The Walt Whitman Award brings first-book publication, a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center to an American who has never before published a book of poetry. The winning manuscript, chosen by an eminent poet, is published by Louisiana State University Press. The Academy purchases copies of the book for distribution to its members.

The award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet's first book.

Western History Association
Robert G. Athearn Award
A biennial award for the best book on the twentieth-century West
Caughey Western History Association Prize
Awarded to the best book of the year in Western History
John C. Ewers Award
A biennial award for the best book on the topic of North American Indian ethnohistory
W. Turrentine Jackson Award
A biennial award for a first published book on the American West
Joan Paterson Kerr Award
A biennial award for the best illustrated book on the American West
Hal K. Rothman Book Award
A biennial award for the best book in western environmental history
Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award
A biennial award for a bibliographic or research work
Robert M. Utley Award
An annual award for the best book on military history of the frontier and western North America

Western States Book Awards
The Western States Book Awards were given by the Western States Arts Federation in poetry, fiction, translation and creative nonfiction for books written by authors living in the West and published the previous year by presses that have their principal offices in the region.  These awards appear to be dormant.

The Willa Award
The Willa Literary Award honors the best in literature featuring stories about a woman/girl or women set in the American West published each year, and is sponsored by Women Writing the West, a non-profit association of writers and other professionals writing and promoting the Women's West.

The Writers' Trust of Canada

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