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:
2008 Awards
The Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award
Brian Richardson, Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Postmodern Fiction. (Ohio State UP, 2006)
Honorable Mention/p>
Rebecca Walkowitz, Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation. (Columbia UP, 2006)
The Best Essay in Narrative
Greg Forter, "Freud, Faulkner, Caruth: Trauma and the Politics of Literary Form"
Honorable Mention
Dorothy J. Hale, "Fiction as Restriction: Self-Binding in New Ethical Theories of the Novel"
The 2008 Best Narrative Conference Graduate Student Paper
To be announced (deadline for submissions is May 17, 2008)
2007 Awards
The Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award
James Phelan, Living To Tell About It: A Rhetoric And Ethics Of Character Narration (Cornell UP, 2005)
Honorable Mention
A.C. Spearing, Textual Subjectivity (Oxford, 2005)
The Best Essay in Narrative
Margaret Homans, "Adoption Narratives, Trauma, and Origins" (Winter 2006)
The 2007 Best Narrative Conference Graduate Student Paper
Matthew Garrett, Stanford University, "Early U.S. Novels: Episodic Structure and the Problem of Social Cohesion" (presented at the 2007 Narrative Conference in Washington, DC)