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The MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University and its alumni organization, the MFA Alumni Writers Collaborative, are proud to present the 2026 Housatonic Book Awards.
The Award will be given to book-length works in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and YA/Middle-Grade. Books must have been published in 2025. The Award carries a $1,000 honorarium in exchange for appearing at the winter or summer residency of the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University to give a public reading and a one-day, three-hour workshop with MFA students. The Award also includes a $500 travel stipend and hotel stay during the residency.
For more information and submission guidelines, visit: Housatonic Book Awards
Fiction
The Office of Historical Corrections
by Danielle Evans
Original Kink
by Jubi Arriola-Headley
Nonfiction
Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing
by Julie Marie Wade
The Newspaper Club
by Beth Vrabel
Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger
Leave Smoke by Jeff Walt
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
by David Treuer
