Maurice Prize in Fiction, was established by John Lescroart , and has been awarded annually since 2005. The prize is hosted jointly by John and the University of California, Davis English Department. The prize is a gift from John in honor of his father, Maurice, for whom the contest is named. The prize was increased from $5,000 to $10,000 beginning in 2022.

The Maurice prize is awarded for the best sustained work of fiction (a novel, novel in stories, or other sustained book-length prose fiction form) submitted by alumni who have not yet published or had a book-length manuscript in fiction accepted for publication by the contest deadline. Literary merit is the over-riding criterion in the selection of the winning entry. It is John's hope to inspire UC Davis graduates to publish their literary work.[1]

Recipients

  • 2005 Spring Warren, The Breaks [2][3]
  • 2006 Shawna Yang Ryan, Water Ghosts (Penguin Press, 2009), originally released as Locke 1928 (El Leon Literary Arts)[4]
  • 2007 Elizabeth Chamberlin these people, they crawl all over the place [Judge: Fenton Johnson]
  • 2008 Melanie Thorne, Hand Me Down (Dutton, 2012) [Judge: Clifford Chase]
  • 2009 Angie Chau, A Map Back to You (released as Quiet As They Come, by IG Publishing, 2010) [Judge: Robin Romm]
  • 2010 Melinda Moustakis, Bear Down, Bear North (University of Georgia Press, 2011) [Judge: Benjamin Percy]
  • 2011 Maria Kuznetsova, The Accident [Judge: Summer Wood]
  • 2012 Cora Stryker, The Evolution of Flight [Judge: Christian Kiefer]
  • 2013 Naomi Williams, Landfalls (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition August 4, 2015) [Judge: Josh Weil]
  • 2014 Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Poor as You Are, My Heart, Don’t Grieve Here in Earth [Judge: Manuel Muñoz]
  • 2015 Reema Rajbanshi, Sugar, Smoke, Song [Judge: Ramona Ausubel]
  • 2016 Megan Cummins, Beasts [Judge: Bich Minh Nguyen][5]
  • 2017 Ben Hinshaw, Exactly What You Mean, A Novel in Stories [Judge: Samantha Dunn][6]
  • 2018 No prize awarded (program hiatus)
  • 2019 Peter Shahrokh, A Wind Will Come
  • 2020 Laura Marsh, SAV AGE(S)
  • 2021 No prize awarded
  • 2022 Kirk Colvin, Bloodless Coup

References

  1. ↑ "About the Maurice Prize". 18 November 2016.
  2. ↑ http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/writers-writers-john-lescroart-and-spring-warren-drink-optimism
  3. ↑ http://english.ucdavis.edu/sites/english.ucdavis.edu/files/sitewide/newsevents/newsletter_2005.pdf
  4. ↑ "TURNING PAGES: Creative writers bring words to life for a day". 19 October 2007.
  5. ↑ "Previous Winners of the Maurice Prize in Fiction". 3 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Previous Winners of the Maurice Prize in Fiction". 3 June 2016.
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