The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony each year award the Norman Mailer High School Nonfiction Writing Award, Communicty College and College Awards at the Center's Annual Benefit Gala in New York City during the month of October. The College winner receives a Mailer Fellowship to the Colony and a check for $10,000.00.  The High School and Community College winners will each receive $5,000.00.

Norman Mailer produced extraordinary writing in many genres, and he was a true pioneer in the emerging realm of creative nonfiction. Evaluation criteria for these awards reflected qualities of writing he pursued across a lifetime: originality; insight; clear voice and style; artful arrangement of elements and materials; and overall aesthetic, emotional, or intellectual effect.

2010 Winners
Soon to be Announced


2009 Winners

High School Winner: EMILY SWANAGIN, LUNA,  Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Alabama.

College Winner: JOHN GILMORE, FINAL CASCADE, Utah State University, Logan, Utah