The Ellen Meloy Award is an annual prize to support writers and writing about the desert. Writers are offered $3,000. Writers are also “sent out to the desert to write.”<\/p>\n
According to their website:<\/p>\n
“The Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers sends the willing and talented out to the desert to write.\u00a0The annual award of $3,000 provides recognition and a small base of financial support for exceptional writers of the desert who wish to spend creative time in a desert environment and carry on in the spirit of Ellen Meloy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Applications for the this year’s prize are due on January 15th.<\/p>\n
They do not accept proposals for poetry or fiction. They want proposals of creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, and essays.<\/p>\n
They aim to support a writer in work on a specific writing project. The project should be in the spirit of Ellen Meloy’s writing.<\/p>\n
Last year’s winner was Kendra Atleework, to support work on her book-length memoir, Sweetwater: Life and Change in the Rain Shadow of the Sierra Nevada. <\/em><\/p>\n
To learn more, and to apply, be sure to read the application guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n