PORTLAND — The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA) has opened the 2012 Maine Literary Awards for nominations.
Entries will be accepted until March 1, and the winners will be announced on May 31.
The new nomination form and guidelines are available on the MWPA website: mainewriters.org. The MWPA added four new categories in the Book Awards this year.
The new John N. Cole Award for Maine- Themed Nonfiction has been generously sponsored by Just Write Books of Topsham. In addition to being the co-founder of the influential Maine Times, Cole was an avid outdoorsman and fisherman who wrote regularly and enthusiastically about his passion for the state.
As an experiment, the MPWA also offers three new categories this year alongside its traditional Fiction and Nonfiction categories. Books may now be entered in Crime Fiction, Speculative Fiction and Memoir.
Crime Fiction is an umbrella category for books that fall into one of the following general categories: crime, noir, thriller, suspense, mystery, police procedurals and cozys.
Speculative Fiction is an umbrella category for books that fall into one of the following general categories: science fiction, fantasy, dystopian, horror and supernatural.
Submissions in these new categories are elective. Authors also can nominate crime or speculative fictional works for the general Fiction category.
As in past years, the 2012 Maine Literary Awards also includes a Drama, Short Works and Youth competition.
For information, call 228- 8263 or email info@mainewriters.org.
Comments are not available on this story.
Send questions/comments to the editors.
