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 2021 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award
The 2021 Booth Award winner is Jim Phelan.
The 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award (published in 2019)
Yogita Goyal, Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, New York: New York University Press, 2019
The 2021 James Phelan Award for the Best Essay in Narrative (published in 2020)
Lin Li’s ‘“To Narrate’—A Verb in the Middle Voice?: Narrativity and Performance in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape and Ohio Impromptu.” Narrative 28.3, October 2020: 289-303.
The 2021 Alan Nadel Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper (delivered at the 2020 Narrative Conference in New Orleans)
Kimaya M. Thakur: “Remixed Narratives: The Dichotomy of Cinematic Adaptations.”
The 2021 Graduate Student International Travel Awards for 2021
Please note: given the virtual nature of this year's conference, no awards were given in 2021