Narrative Society Awards
Each year, the Society presents scholars in the field with awards for the best book published the previous year, the best article in Narrative, and the best graduate student paper given at the Annual Conference. In addition and when warranted, the Society also awards The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award to those scholars who have made substantial and sustained contributions to the field of narrative studies.
Below are the current open calls for nominations:
Recent Awards
The 2017 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award
The 2017 Booth Award winner is Marie-Laure Ryan.
The 2017 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award
Erin James, The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).
Honorable Mention: Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lander (eds.), Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2015).
The 2017 James Phelan Award for the Best Essay in Narrative in 2016
Daniel Barlow, “Blues Narrative Form, African American Fiction, and the African Diaspora” (May 2016)
Honorable Mention: Erin McGlothlin, "Empathetic Identification and the Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction: A Proposed Taxonomy of Response" (October 2016)
The Best Graduate Student Paper at the 2016 Narrative Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ivan Delazari, Hong Kong Baptist University, “Diegetic Music in Narrative Fiction: Who is Listening, and What is Heard?”