02/18/2022
By Patricia Coffey
The Pollard Memorial Library Foundation is delighted to announce that submissions are open for the first Elinor Lipman Award for Writing. This award honors Elinor Lipman, a distinguished, prolific and much-loved author born and raised in Lowell, by awarding a prize of $1,000 for a work of fiction or creative nonfiction written by a Lowell-based author.
Submissions are welcome on or before 11:59 pm EDT, May 20, 2022.
The Pollard Memorial Library Foundation has established The Elinor Lipman Award for Writing, a competition for fiction and creative nonfiction written by a current resident of Lowell, a current student of the University of Massachusetts Lowell or a current student of Middlesex Community College. The first of these annual awards will be bestowed in 2022.
The award pays tribute to the work of Lowell native Elinor Lipman, author of numerous novels, stories, essays and poetry for which she has received the New England Book Award for fiction, a lifetime achievement award from the New England Library Information Network, and the Paterson Fiction Prize of the Poetry Center.
The Lipman Award recognizes the importance of literacy and learning in the City of Lowell and the lives of its residents.
The Lipman Award has been funded by a generous donation from Loom Press to the Pollard Memorial Library Foundation. For more information, please visit the Pollard Memorial Library website.