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2023 Ethnographic Poetry Prize is now OPEN
See our Call for Submissions. Deadline is June 16th, 2023.
2023 Victor Turner and Edie Turner Prizes in Ethnographic Writing, are now OPEN!
We look forward to reading your books! Call for Submissions
2022 Winners of the Ethnographic Prose Prize
We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s ethnographic prose competition 1st prize was awarded to: Amrapali Maitra (“The Most Beloved Cow in Gokulpur” – Fiction Narrative) 2nd prize was awarded to: Aaron Hames (“Forgetting” – Nonfiction Narrative) … Continue reading
2022 Ethnographic Poetry Prize: Judges Report
Prize Committee: Susan Wardell, Ather Zia, Justin D. Wright The field of ethnographic poetry has a rich history, and the SHA ethnographic poetry prize, founded in 1986, has been a significant part of this: it’s goal being to support and … Continue reading
2022 Winners of the Victor and Edie Turner Prizes
Victor Turner Prize 1st prize was awarded to: Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains (Princeton) 2nd prize was awarded to: Tarini Bedi, Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (Washington) 3rd prize was awarded to: Thuy Linh Nguyen … Continue reading
2022 Poetry Competition is now open
See our Call for Submissions. Deadline is June 10, 2022
2022 SHA Creative Prose Contest is NOW OPEN
We look forward to reading your stories! Call for Submissions
Experiments in Ethnographic Poetry: A Workshop Summary
Susan Wardell Poetry, like ethnography, is about listening with the whole self. This was the focus of a workshop in January 2022, run in association with the SHA. The workshop, entitled “Experiments in Ethnographic Poetry: the personal, the sensory, the … Continue reading
Call for Submissions: 2021 Creative Ethnographic Prose
The Society for Humanistic Anthropology is excited to announce the opening of our annual Creative Ethnographic Prose writing competition. Our 2021 deadline is June 1. All details can be found here. We look forward to reading your work!
