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The Chautauqua Janus Prize
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he Chautauqua Janus Prize was awarded for the first time in 2018, celebrating an emerging writer’s single work of short fiction or nonfiction for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder readers’ imaginations. In addition to receiving a $5000 award, the winner gives a lecture on the grounds during the summer season and appears in a forthcoming issue of the Chautauqua literary journal.
Named for Janus, the Roman god who looks to both the past and the future, the prize will honor writing with a command of craft that renovates our understandings of both. The prize is funded by a generous donation from Barbara and Twig Branch.
Chautauqua Janus Prize Winners available for purchase:
Includes 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize Winner, "Jean" by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos.
Joseph Earl Thomas won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize with an excerpt of his 2023 memoir, Sink.
Includes 2019 Chautauqua Janus Prize Winner, "Tree rings, like concentric ghosts" by My Tran.
