Beginning January 2008
William Saroyan Society’s Annual Story Writing Contest
Submissions Due: March 10, 2008
Awards: April 17, 2008 at Woodward Park Regional Library, located at 944 E. Perrin
Ave., Fresno.
For library information only call (559) 433-3135.
The William Saroyan Society will be holding its annual story writing contest for students in grades
one through college beginning in January 2008. Submissions are due on March 10, and awards will
be presented on April 10 at the Woodward Park Regional Library. The Theme is Stories from Your
Home Place: how has the place where you live or have lived, the people you have met, and your
dreams in that place affected your life? William Saroyan set many of his homespun stories, fiction
and nonfiction, in Fresno. He wrote about the people he met, and their lives and dreams. Prizes
are awarded for First ($100), Second ($75), and Third ($50) for grade categories 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-
9, 10-12 and college. For more information on the Annual Story Writing Contest, see
www.williamsaroyansociety.org.
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March 2008
Saroyan Centennial Prizes for Fiction, Non-Fiction and Drama
William Saroyan Society with the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project
Submissions Due March 15, 2008
Sponsored with the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project, the William Saroyan Society is awarding
prizes for adult writers in the areas of fiction, creative non-fiction, and drama. One $500 prize will
be awarded in each category. The winners will also be published in the journal In the Grove, and
included in the Saroyan Archive. Judging will be blind. The fiction contest’s finalists will be judged
by Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits, the Oxygen Man, The End of California and other
novels and short story collections. The creative nonfiction and drama contests’ judges will be
announced at a later date. For more information check the William Saroyan Society website at
www.williamsaroyansociety.org.
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Friday, September 5, 2008
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Award Ceremony
Green Library
Stanford Campus
557 Escondido Mall, Palo Alto, California
2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Admission Free
Join us as we award the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. This award, given by
Stanford University Libraries in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, recognizes newly
published works of fiction and non-fiction. The prize is designed to encourage new or emerging
writers and honor the Saroyan literary legacy of originality, vitality and stylistic innovation. In
recognition of that originality, the ceremony will take place among an exhibit of Saroyan's artwork,
and we'll also present two new publications from Heyday Books that celebrate Saroyan's literary
legacy: David Kherdian's Forgotten Bread, and an expanded version of The Essential Saroyan.
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