The Hamazkayin
Armenian Educational and Cultural Society of Eastern United States
recently began to accept submissions for its second annual Minas and
Kohar Tölölyan Prize in Contemporary Literature. This year, two prizes
will be awarded—one for Armenian-language submissions and one for
English-language submissions.
Named after one of the major Armenian literary critics of the second half of the 20th
century and his wife, a devoted teacher of that literature for decades,
the annually awarded prize recognizes the work produced by talented
writers working in North America. The prize is intended to encourage new
work in all of the major genres of literary production, as they are
currently understood in North America. In this expanded understanding,
poetry, short stories, novels, and drama are all included, along with
works of creative non-fiction, a genre that includes memoirs, as well as
personal, descriptive, and literary critical essays. Representatives of
any of these genres may be offered as candidates for the prize. Work in
Armenian and English will be considered as long as the authors
are of Armenian ancestry, and/or the work has an Armenian theme or
revolves around an Armenian topic.
The primary purpose of the prizes is to encourage and offer
recognition, through the award and the ensuing publicity, for those who
wish to write about Armenian themes and topics. There will also be a
modest financial award of $1,500 each for the Armenian- and
English-language awards.
The jury judging all submissions is comprised of Dr. Sima Aprahamian
(Montreal), Dr. Vartan Matiossian (New York/New Jersey), Gourgen
Arzoumanian (California), Yervant Kotchounian (California), and Prof.
Khachig Tölölyan (Connecticut).
All submissions must be sent by Jan. 31, 2014 either electronically
by e-mail to tololyan_award@hamazkayin-usa.org as a PDF file (highly
encouraged), or by mail to the Hamazkayin Tololyan Prize Committee at 80
Bigelow Ave, Watertown, MA 02472. All submissions must be accompanied
by the Tololyan Prize Application, found online at
http://bit.ly/167vSsM. (Both the Armenian and English versions of the
rules and regulations of the award can also be found at the above link.)
Submissions may consist of work published either in 2012 or 2013.
Recent work that has yet to be published may also be submitted. The
prizes will be announced at Hamazkayin’s Annual Pan Gathering in May
2014.
This award has been made possible by the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Vergine Misserlian of San Francisco, California.
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