Nominations Now Open
The Prairie Grindstone Prize
Deadline for nominations: May 15, 2025
Award amount: $50,000
Nominations for The Prairie Grindstone Prize open on April 1 and will close on May 15, 2025 at midnight.
Announcing the third year of The Prairie Grindstone Prize — a $50,000 literary award that acknowledges a hardworking, engaged prairie writer. This annual prize, funded by an anonymous donor committee, alternates between the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This year, the prize will be awarded to an Alberta writer. The Prairie Grindstone Prize recognizes prairie writers of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction with a cash prize of $50,000 that will enable the writer to focus on their work for a year or more.
This is not a book prize. It is awarded in acknowledgement of an author’s body of work and their contribution to the public’s appreciation for and understanding of Western Canada’s landscape, people, history, and culture.
The writer must have been a resident of the province of Alberta for the past five years, have a minimum of four professionally published books, and be an active member of the local writing community.
Authors may not self nominate and recipients will be selected by a jury of peers.
Full nomination guidelines can be found here prairiegrindstoneprize.ca/nominate.
Letters of nomination and inquiries can be sent to grindstoneprize@gmail.com.
For more information, please contact Lisa Murphy Lamb, Jury Chair or Jun Lee, Marketing by email at grindstoneprize@gmail.com.
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