Annual Book Award
The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
solicits unpublished book-length manuscripts on American, British, and other
modern-language literature and cultural studies and on related areas for its
annual book award, given for the best unpublished manuscript by a member of
NEMLA.
Each manuscript must include a general
description, or overview of the proposed book (2-3 single-spaced pages) as well
as a round-up of competing books (if any exist), and a brief explanation of the
uniqueness of the proposed books. Manuscripts should be prepared for blind submission,
with no personal references in the introduction, acknowledgments, title page,
or table of contents. NeMLA will not consider unrevised dissertations for this
award (i.e. those not revised as a book manuscript, as expected for submission
to any Press).1 Each award includes a $500 cash prize and a recommendation
for publication to Ohio University Press or Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Normally two manuscripts are selected for prizes,
one in English and one in one of the other modern languages, but the NEMLA book
committee may choose not to make one award or both in a year if it feels the
manuscripts are not worthy of publication. The winners will be announced at
the annual business meeting, held during NEMLA's spring convention.
Click here to see a list
of past winners of the Book Prize
For consideration, forward a bound and a disc
copy of the manuscript and abstract by September 30, 2008 to Elizabeth Abele,
Dept. of English, Nassau Community Coll., 1 Education Dr., Garden City, NY
11530. E-mail any questions concerning the award to Northeast.MLA@gmail.com
1. See the following books for
advice on revising a dissertation:
Robin Derricourt, An Author's Guide to Scholarly Publishing (Princeton:
Princeton U, 1996)
Eleanor Harman and Ian Montagnes, eds., The Thesis and the Book, 2nd
ed. (Toronto; UP of Toronto, 2003)
Beth Luey, Handbook for Academic Authors 4 th
ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002)
