California Writers Exchange Award

The California Writers Exchange contest introduces emerging writers from California to the New York literary community and provides them a network for professional advancement. Every third year, writers in California are invited to submit manuscripts, which are reviewed by outside judges. A winning poet and fiction writer are selected and flown to New York City for an all-expenses-paid, weeklong trip to meet with literary agents, editors, publishers, and writers, and to give a public reading.

The California Writers Exchange is funded by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.

Past winners of the California Writers Exchange are:

2010
Craig Santos Perez (poetry)
Sean Bernard (fiction)

2007
Elaine Beale (fiction)
Larry Colker (poetry)

2004
Dylan Landis (fiction)
Allison Benis White (poetry)