The Waterston Desert Writing Prize 2025
Deadline: Could 1, 2025 | Prize: $3,000 + Public Studying in Oregon
The Waterston Desert Writing Prize, established in 2014, celebrates literary nonfiction that displays a deep connection to abandon landscapes and ecosystems. Impressed by poet and writer Ellen Waterston—Oregon’s present Poet Laureate—the prize helps rising and established writers engaged on book-length nonfiction initiatives.
Award Particulars
- Prize: $3,000
- Public Studying & Reception: September 25, 2025 on the Excessive Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon
- Journey help offered for the winner to attend the occasion
Eligibility
- Open to nonfiction writers (all nationalities welcome)
- Work should concentrate on the desert as topic and setting
- Writers should be engaged on or proposing a book-length manuscript
- Submissions should be authored solely by the applicant
- No AI-generated content material is allowed
Submission Necessities for the Waterston Desert Writing Prize
Deadline: Thursday, Could 1, 2025 by 11:59 PM PST
Submit through: Submittable (hyperlink energetic after Jan 6)
Format: ONE Phrase or PDF file (no figuring out info)
The file should embrace:
- Biographical Assertion (1 web page)
- Academic, skilled, publication, and writing expertise
- How the prize would help your work
- Your dedication to abandon literature
- Mission Proposal (1 web page)
- Title and outline of the proposed manuscript
- Desert areas concerned
- How your work contributes to abandon literature
- Writing Pattern (as much as 10 pages)
- Have to be nonfiction and related to the undertaking’s model/topic
- Revealed or unpublished work accepted
- No fiction, poetry, juvenile lit, or co-authored materials.
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Expectations for the Winner
- Attend the award ceremony in Bend, Oregon (with journey help)
- Submit a high-resolution picture for publicity
- Acknowledge the Prize and Museum in future publications
- Submit a one-page progress report inside 12 months
- Present a pattern for potential publication on the Museum’s web site.
Questions? E-mail: waterston@highdesertmuseum.org
