James Duval Phelan Award

The James D. Phelan Award is a literary award offered annually to promising young California writers. The award is sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and administered by Intersection for the Arts.
The award is intended to encourage young writers of an unpublished manuscript that is completed or in-progress. All applicants must, therefore, be between 20 and 35 years of age. There is no entry fee required to apply for this award.
Applicants must have been born in the state of California but need not be current residents. The unpublished work-in-progress submitted may be fiction (novel or short stories), nonfictional prose, poetry, graphic novel, or drama. Plays may be submitted in standard script format.
This award is part of the annual Literary Competition administered by . The competition includes two other awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award and the Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction. In recent years, several Literary Competition award-winners have secured publishing deals with major publishing houses such as St. Martin’s Press, Simon & Schuster, Random House, and Knopf as a result of these awards. Former award recipients include Philip Levine, Ernest J. Gaines, Al Young, Michael Palmer, Frank Chin, Jane Hirschfield, Lyn Hejinian, David St. John, Dagoberto Gilb, and Sallie Tisdale.
James D. Phelan Award is also given in photography and printmaking. Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California, administers the printmaking awards.

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