Book Prize Guidelines

River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize Series

Congratulations to John W. Evans, winner of the 2013 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize, for his manuscript, Young Widower.  Evans's manuscript was one of 165 submissions received in this year's contest.

The book will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2014.

John W. Evans is the author of two chapbooks. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Stegner Fellow in poetry, and before that, a Fulbright Hays Fellow, public school teacher, and Peace Corps volunteer. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University.

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