Maurice Prize
Maurice Prize in Fiction, was established by John Lescroart , and has been awarded annually since 2005. The prize is hosted jointly by John and the University of California, Davis English Department. The prize is a gift from John in honor of his father, Maurice, for whom the contest is named. The prize was increased from $5,000 to $10,000 beginning in 2022.
The Maurice prize is awarded for the best sustained work of fiction (a novel, novel in stories, or other sustained book-length prose fiction form) submitted by alumni who have not yet published or had a book-length manuscript in fiction accepted for publication by the contest deadline. Literary merit is the over-riding criterion in the selection of the winning entry. It is John's hope to inspire UC Davis graduates to publish their literary work.[1]
Recipients[edit]
- 2005 Spring Warren, The Breaks [2][3]
- 2006 Shawna Yang Ryan, Water Ghosts (Penguin Press, 2009), originally released as Locke 1928 (El Leon Literary Arts)[4]
- 2007 Elizabeth Chamberlin these people, they crawl all over the place [Judge: Fenton Johnson]
- 2008 Melanie Thorne, Hand Me Down (Dutton, 2012) [Judge: Clifford Chase]
- 2009 Angie Chau, A Map Back to You (released as Quiet As They Come, by IG Publishing, 2010) [Judge: Robin Romm]
- 2010 Melinda Moustakis, Bear Down, Bear North (University of Georgia Press, 2011) [Judge: Benjamin Percy]
- 2011 Maria Kuznetsova, The Accident [Judge: Summer Wood]
- 2012 Cora Stryker, The Evolution of Flight [Judge: Christian Kiefer]
- 2013 Naomi Williams, Landfalls (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition August 4, 2015) [Judge: Josh Weil]
- 2014 Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Poor as You Are, My Heart, Don’t Grieve Here in Earth [Judge: Manuel Muñoz]
- 2015 Reema Rajbanshi, Sugar, Smoke, Song [Judge: Ramona Ausubel]
- 2016 Megan Cummins, Beasts [Judge: Bich Minh Nguyen][5]
- 2017 Ben Hinshaw, Exactly What You Mean, A Novel in Stories [Judge: Samantha Dunn][5]
- 2018 No prize awarded (program hiatus)
- 2019 Peter Shahrokh, A Wind Will Come
- 2020 Laura Marsh, SAV AGE(S)
- 2021 No prize awarded
- 2022 Kirk Colvin, Bloodless Coup
References[edit]
- ^ "About the Maurice Prize". 18 November 2016.
- ^ Lescroart, John (14 June 2013). "Writers on Writers: John Lescroart and Spring Warren Drink to Optimism". San Francisco Magazine. Archived from the original on 6 September 2017.
- ^ "Creative Writing: Maurice Prize in Fiction" (PDF). English Department Newsletter. Vol. 9. UC Davis. 2005. p. 4. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ Parker, Clifton B. (19 October 2007). "TURNING PAGES: Creative writers bring words to life for a day". UC Davis. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Previous Winners of the Maurice Prize in Fiction". UC Davis Department of English. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2024.