The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University . They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language , by a citizen or legal resident alien of the United States .
17-538: The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is a $ 100,000 prize presented to a mid-career, emerging poet who already possesses an established body of work. The Kingsley Tufts award is known to be one of the world's most lucrative poetry prizes . Its counterpart, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, is given to a poet who demonstrates genuine promise in their first book of published poetry, with an attached purse of $ 10,000. Kingsley Tufts held executive positions in
34-668: A year after the inauguration of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Kate Tufts founded the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, which began in the amount of $ 5,000, but has since doubled to $ 10,000. Kate Tufts died in June 1997, at the age of 86. While she did not live to see her awards grow to become some of the largest poetry prizes in the world, she certainly took pride in their inception while she was alive. Doug Anderson, 1995 Kate Tufts Discovery Award recipient, remembers her sardonic wit when meeting her that year: "She came into
51-451: Is normally presented to an author . Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony . Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to
68-586: The Bookseller /Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year , and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction and Lyttle Lytton Contests , given to deliberately bad grammar There are also literary awards targeted specifically to encourage the writing from African American origin and authors of African descent. Two of these awards are Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence , which was established in 2007 by
85-740: The Baton Rouge Area Foundation , and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award , which is a given by the National Community of Black Writers. Australian author Richard Flanagan wrote a critique of literary awards, saying "National prizes are often a barometer of bourgeois bad taste." He says juries can be influenced by vendettas, paybacks and payoffs, "most judges are fair-minded people. But hate, conceit and jealousy are no less human attributes than wisdom, judgment and knowledge." Book prizes will sometimes compete with one another, and these goals do not always coincide with anointing
102-1024: The Booker Prize , The Writers' Prize , the Pulitzer Prize and the Hugo Award ( English ). Other international literary prizes include the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Franz Kafka Prize , and the Jerusalem Prize . The International Dublin Literary Award is given to writers, as well as to the translator(s) if the book chosen was written in a language other than English. Spoof awards include: The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award ,
119-465: The 2017 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is: * Terrance Hayes , 2000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award recipient, poet, and professor at the University of Pittsburgh The panel of final judges for the 2012 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is: The panel of preliminary judges for the 2012 competition includes: Submissions are due annually on July 1, and eligible work has to have been published
136-618: The Awards Ceremony have included Kathy Bates in 2002, Leonard Nimoy in 2007, and Maxine Hong Kingston in 2012. A single work may be submitted for either award only once, although the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award may submit another work in a later year for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner, by accepting the award, agrees to spend one week in residence at Claremont Graduate University for lectures and poetry readings in Claremont and
153-591: The Los Angeles shipyards and wrote poetry as his avocation. His poetry has been featured in The New Yorker , Esquire , and Harpers , among other publications. Following his death in 1991, Kingsley's wife, Kate, sold her home and the majority of the couple's estate in order to fund an endowment to help poets further their craft. She established the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 1993 at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Initially,
170-504: The approximately 400 combined applications that are received for both awards. They then pass on finalists to the final judges. The final panel is composed of five distinguished judges, representing a cross-section of the American poetry community. The panel of final judges for the 2017 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is: The panel of final judges for the 2017 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is: The panel of final judges for
187-575: The award (such as the Orange Prize ). There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels . Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics ). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( Spanish ); the Camões Prize ( Portuguese );
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#1732780915924204-408: The award was for $ 50,000, and has subsequently doubled due to increases in the endowment. It is intended for an emerging poet who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of their career. Kate Tufts had no prior affiliation with Claremont Graduate University, but when she met then-university President John Maguire and visited the campus, she became convinced that it
221-473: The greater Los Angeles area. The poet must be an American citizen or legal resident alien of the United States. List of the world%27s richest literary prizes Many literary awards give significant remunerations. This is a list of active literary awards from around the world with a prize of at least US$ 100,000 or equivalent. Although global in scope and comprising over 35 awards, most of
238-655: The previous year (between July and June). Manuscripts, CDs, and chapbooks are not accepted. Award winners are announced in the February following the July deadline, with a ceremony and presentation of the awards in April, national poetry month. The ceremony takes place on the Claremont Graduate University Campus, and winners are required to accept their award in person. Distinguished speakers at
255-556: The prizes are in only four currencies: United Arab Emirates dirham , Swedish krona , Euro , and United States dollar . Equivalent in US$ (October 2024) The following awards have a superlative claim within certain defined categories, as described and sourced in the Notes column. Literary awards A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It
272-499: The room at the Claremont Graduate School grumbling that she couldn't smoke in there, and then she stopped and looked at Tom Lux [that year's Kingsley Tufts award recipient] and myself. Kate Tufts looked at us and said, 'You don't know how glad I am that this year's awards were given to a couple of really disreputable poets.'" Both awards go through two phases of judging. A preliminary panel of three judges screens
289-478: Was the perfect home for her poetry prize. Unlike many literary awards, which are coronations for a successful career or body of work, the Kingsley Tufts award was created to both honor the poet and provide the resources that allow artists to continue working. Kate Tufts said she wanted to create a prize "that would enable a poet to work on his or her craft for a while without paying bills." In 1994, just
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