Best Essay in Narrative
This award recognizes an essay published in the journal Narrative during the previous year that has made a substantial contribution to the field of narrative studies.
Past Prize Winners
2008
Lucy Ferriss, "Uncle Charles Repairs to the A&P: Changes in Voice in the Recent American Short Story" (Spring 2008).
2007
Greg Forter, "Freud, Faulkner, Caruth: Trauma and the Politics of Literary Form" (Fall 2007).
Honorable Mention
Dorothy J. Hale, "Fiction as Restriction: Self-Binding in New Ethical Theories of the Novel" (Spring 2007).
2006
Margaret Homans, "Adoption Narratives, Trauma, and Origins" (Winter 2006).
2005
Michael MacDonald, "Losing Spirit: Hegel, Levinas, and the Limits of Narrative" (Spring 2005).