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The Bellwether Prize consists of a $25,000 cash payment and publication of the winning novel manuscript.

For eligibility requirements and a downloadable application see How to Apply.

The Bellwether Prize is administered through the National Writers United Service Organization.

 

Winner of the 2010 Bellwether Prize for Fiction:

Congratulations to Naomi Benaron, winner of the $25,000 award and publication with the Bellwether’s partner publisher, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, for her novel Running the Rift.

To learn more, click here.

To all of the other finalists, we offer our congratulations and thank you for your participation. You are now free to submit your manuscripts elsewhere.


Fiction has a unique capacity to bring difficult issues to a broad readership on a personal level, creating empathy in a reader’s heart for the theoretical stranger. Its capacity for invoking moral and social responsibility is enormous. Throughout history, every movement toward a more peaceful and humane world has begun with those who imagined the possibilities. The Bellwether Prize seeks to support the imagination of humane possibilities.

         Barbara Kingsolver, founder

 


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