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Show Authors and Publishers eligible for New Book Awards Ushers should contact Western West-ern States Arts Foundation to receive an entry form and complete awards criteria. The Foundation can be reached at 141 East Palace avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, (505) 988-1166. Utah authors and publishers publish-ers will have a chance to have their work judged by eminent American author, Robert Penn Warren, and , win cash awards for their efforts. Western States Arts Foundation Fou-ndation of Santa Fe, New Mexico, announces the first Western States Book Awards which will be presented to outstanding writers and publishers pub-lishers of fiction, short fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry scheduled for publication in the spring of 1984. This series of awards for the Western region, including Utah, features cash prizes of $2 ,500 for authors of manuscripts and $5,000 for respective publi-.. publi-.. shers. . Mr. Warren leads the jury of nationally prominent authorities auth-orities who will judge all submissions. Other jurors include Jonathan Galassi, senior editor for Random . House Incorporated, poetry editor of Paris Review, and juror for the 1983 American Book Awards; Carolyn Kizer, former director of the National Nat-ional Endowment for the Arts Literature Program, founding editor of Poetry Northwest, . and an internal ionally respected poet; Al Young, novelist, poet, screenwriter, scr-eenwriter, and visiting professor prof-essor for many Western universities; and Jack Shoemaker, Shoe-maker, editor of North Point Press in Berkeley, California and owner of Sand Dollar Books, a bookstore specializing specializ-ing in poetry and modern . literature, To be eligible for the Western States Book Awards, Aw-ards, works must be written by ah author living in the states of Utah, Arizona,, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ore gon, Washington, and Wyoming, Wyo-ming, and published in those states, Alaska, California, Hawaii, or Texas. Works in languages other than English Engl-ish are eligible if the publisher is able to submit a translation of the work with the original language manuscript. manu-script. Edited manuscripts must be submitted by publishers to Western States Arts Foundation no later than September 30, 1983. Participants Partici-pants will be notified of the four award winners by the end of November, 1983. Award winning books will need to be in print no later than May 15, 1984. Winning books, authors, and publishers publish-ers will be formally announced announ-ced in May, 1984, and promoted beginning with the American Booksellers Association Assoc-iation convention in Washington, Wash-ington, D.C., May 26-29, 1984. Western States Arts Foundation Foun-dation will also provide promotion and marketing assistance to the publishers and arrange media tours for the selected writers. The Foundation, a regional region-al alliance of the state arts agencies of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Ore-gon, Washington, and Wyoming, Wyo-ming, has developed the awards after an extensive 1980 - 1981 study and survey of the needs of writers in the West. The awards are designed to: recognize and promote writers of excellence excell-ence living in the West; encourage effective production product-ion and marketing of quality books published in the West; and increase sales and critical attention nationally for quality literary works from the West. Interested writers or pub- |