Note: The Peter Taylor Prize competition is on a one-year hiatus. Please check back in January of 2009 for details about our next competition, and watch for our latest prize-winning book, to be released in the fall of 2008.

Winners:   2007 - Leslie Walker Williams 2006 - John J. McLaughlin 2005 - Mark Powell 2004 - John Parras 2003 - Eliezer Sobel 2002 - Sarah Van Arsdale 2001 - A.G. Harmon 2000 - DeWitt Henry Peter Taylor Biography Contest Guidelines Judges Univ. of Tennessee Press Donors - Peter Taylor Prize Home   Order Now from UT Press! The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts by DeWitt Henry (2000) A House All Stilled by A.G. Harmon (2001) Blue by Sara Van Arsdale (2002) Minyan: Ten Jewish Men in a World That is Heartbroken by Eliezer Sobel (2003) Fire on Mount Maggiore by John Parras (2004) Blood Kin by Mark Powell (2005) Run in the Fam'ly by John J. McLaughlin (2006)

The Prudent Mariner by Leslie Walker Williams 2007 Winner of the Peter Taylor Prize The goal of the Peter Taylor Prize competition is to identify and publish novels of high literary quality. The competition is open to both published and unpublished novelists, and manuscripts submitted to the contest will be read and judged anonymously. The Knoxville Writers' Guild would like to thank Eleanor Ross Taylor for her gracious advice and encouragement as we work to establish this prize.   Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel contest is currently in hiatus.         Peter Taylor Biography | Contest Guidelines | Judges | Donors | Winners | Tennessee Prize | Home Copyright © The Knoxville Writers' Guild 2000