Christopher Hewitt Award 2014
Posted on April 25, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
Christopher Hewitt Award
Call for Entries for 2014 Literary Award
UPDATE: The deadline for the 2014 Christopher Hewitt Award has been extended to July 1, 2014.
A&U is currently accepting entries for the second annual Christopher Hewitt Award. (A list of last year’s winners and runners-up can be viewed here.)
Fiction/Poetry/Drama/Nonfiction contest
An award will be given in each of four categories: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Creative Nonfiction.
The winner in each genre will receive a $50 prize and will have his or her work featured in A&U’s annual Summer Reading Issue. Winners will be selected by our editors. If any genre lacks a clear winner, fewer than four awards may be given. All entries will be considered for publication.
Guidelines:
• All submissions must be related directly or indirectly to HIV/AIDS, including but not limited to personal, historical, international, and political perspectives on HIV/AIDS.
• Poetry can be any length/style; Fiction, Drama, and Creative Nonfiction (includes essays/memoirs) should be no longer than 1,200 words. Excerpts from longer works are accepted. All entries must be previously unpublished.
• Email submissions as Word or PDF attachments to aumaglit [at] gmail [dot] com. In the subject heading of your email, include Your Name, the Genre, and the word “Award.” For example: “Chris Smith, Nonfiction, Award.” Do NOT include your name on the manuscript itself.
• Multiple submissions are accepted.
The deadline is July 1, 2014. There is no entry fee.
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About Christopher Hewitt:
A native of Worcestershire, Christopher Hewitt emigrated from England to the United States in 1974. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Birmingham in England in 1971 and went on to earn master’s degrees in English and creative writing from UC Davis and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop at University of Iowa. Over the course of his career as a writer, he published poems and translations in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Advocate, The James White Review, and BENT, among others. His work was also anthologized in Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men Tell Their Stories. At the time of his death, he was working on a memoir titled “Brittle Bones,” in part about living with osteogenesis imperfecta. He taught writing at the University of San Francisco, Fordham University, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, among others. Chris helped inaugurate A&U’s premiere issue and filled several editorial posts at the magazine, including Literary Editor, until his death in 2004 at the age of fifty-eight.
