The editors of Early American Literature are pleased to announce the annual Early American Literature Book Prize, which will be given in 2025 for an author’s second or subsequent monograph about American literature in the colonial period through the early republic (roughly 1830). The prize is offered in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press, the Society of Early Americanists, and the MLA’s Forum on Early American Literature.
The deadline for nominations is March 3, 2025. Please send the name of the book, author, year published, and the book’s press website URL to: ealassistanteditor@gmail.com.