
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:
The 2018 Booth Award winner is Mieke Bal.
Kent Puckett, Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 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)
Ivan Delazari, Hong Kong Baptist University, “Diegetic Music in Narrative Fiction: Who is Listening, and What is Heard?”
Kate Burling, University of Cape Town
Ivan Delazari, Hong Kong Baptist University
Anna Ovaska, University of Helsinki
Rik Spanjers, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis