2007 Book Prize Announcement

The Berkshire Conference invites submissions from presses or authors for its First Book Prize, which carries with it a $1000 award to the author. The prize is for a first book in any field of history written by a woman who is normally resident in North America. Books need not focus on women's history, and many past winners have not. Only books published in 2007 (as indicated on the title page or the reverse side of the title page) will be considered. There are no exceptions to this rule. The following categories are not eligible for consideration: textbooks, juveniles, documentary collections, fiction, poetry, or collections of essays.

If you are the author of a book that might qualify for the prize, please direct your publisher to submit ONE COPY of your book directly to the address listed below. If you are a publisher we urge you, if you have not already done so, to review your list and submit entries soon. Presses may submit multiple entries. The deadline for submitting entries is January 15, 2008.

Please send one copy of the book to:
Stephanie Camp
Department of History
University of Washington
315 Smith, Box 353560
Seattle, WA 98195-3560

Please note that only one copy of the book is requested for the first round. Presses are not required to send a nomination letter, but each press must include a cover letter indicating that the book or books are prize submissions, and bearing the name, telephone number and e-mail of the appropriate contact person on the staff. If your press's book reaches the shortlist we will contact the press and ask that they submit another four (4) copies.

The 2008 award will be announced at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women in Minneapolis in June 2008, and in a full-page advertisement in Perspectives, the newsletter of the American Historical Association. For more information on the book prize please contact Professor Camp at stcamp@u.washington.edu.