Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

 

Submissions

The Mark Twain House and Museum will accept submissions until February 15, 2022.

Submission Checklist

1. A link to access the title digitally (this will be shared with our preliminary judges)

2. Complete submission form (download here) and submit to Alice Fraioli at alice.fraioli@marktwainhouse.org.

3. Please be aware that hard copies of each title on the short list will be provided to our final panel of judges – we may require up to FIVE copies of each title being entered.

Contact information for both the publisher who is submitting and the author must be included on the submission form (name, address, phone, and email).

Novels and short-story collections will both be accepted. Self-published works will not be accepted.

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Centered around the restored Hartford, Connecticut home where American author Samuel Clemens — Mark Twain — and his family lived from 1874 to 1891, The Mark Twain House & Museum is a private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster an appreciation of the legacy of Mark Twain as one of our nation’s defining cultural figures and to demonstrate the continuing relevance of his work, life, and times. Twain wrote his most important works, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, during the time he lived in the house, and he considered those the happiest, most productive years of his life.

Open year round for guided tours, The Mark Twain House & Museum attracts more than 65,000 visitors a year and is one of the premier tourist attractions in Connecticut. The Mark Twain House was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963.