The Bellwether Prize consists of a $25,000 cash payment and publication of the winning novel manuscript. Submissions are being accepted until October 2, 2009. For eligibility requirements and a downloadable application see How to Apply. The Bellwether Prize is administered through the National Writers United Service Organization.
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.
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