Entries Open for the Ann Snitow Prize in the US

Deadline: 15-Jul-23

Entries are now open for the Ann Snitow Prize, a $12,500 yearly award for a feminist intellectual and activist, living and working in the United States.

The Ann Snitow Prize recognizes a person of extraordinary vision, originality, generosity, and accomplishment who is currently engaged in work that combines feminist intellectual and/or artistic pursuits with social justice activism. It is named after Ann Barr Snitow (1943-2019), a much-loved feminist writer, political activist, and teacher who was a founding member of No More Nice Girls and the Network of East-West Women.

Benefits

• The Prize is neither need-based nor project-based. The award of $12,500 may be used however the recipient wishes.

 Criteria

• The Prize is not a lifetime achievement award. Anyone who is currently engaged in feminist intellectual-activist work is eligible, regardless of age or past recognition, although they do have a general preference for candidates at the mid-career level.
• What kind of person is the ideal candidate for the Prize?
  • The ideal candidate for the Ann Snitow Prize is a feminist intellectual and activist, living and working in the United States, who has consistently exhibited the qualities that led Ann to be so admired and cherished. The awardee is:
    • A feminist, broadly defined: someone for whom feminism goes beyond a movement for rights and equality to a vision of a world without social domination or economic exploitation, a world of security, freedom, and pleasure.
    • An intellectual and/or artist who thinks with rigor, flexibility, and originality, and who inspires and nurtures the intellectual and creative best in others.
    • A radical social justice activist who practices generosity, integrity, and perseverance—and is effective, whether in instigating new formations; mobilizing and connecting people; and/or sustaining and growing campaigns, projects, groups, and institutions.
    • Prizewinners may be academics, independent scholars, educators, writers or artists, full- or part-time volunteer or paid organizers—or currently engaged in any combination of intellectual and activist feminist work.

Details

• Nominations are submitted via email and should include the following:
  • A 1 to 2 page cover letter describing the nominee
  • A CV or resume of the nominee
  • Work samples from the nominee (1 to 2 short writing samples; samples of activist work; or, if appropriate, samples of artwork. If you submit a video,  include a few-sentence introduction & a link). Please include a maximum of 20 pages total for all work sample materials combined.
  • Submissions must be in English. They welcome submissions from Puerto Rico or for nominees who work in the U.S. but do so primarily in a language other than English. However, to give them a fair chance with the jury, please translate and/or subtitle all submitted materials into English.

Who selects the winner?

• Each year the Organizing Committee invites a different group of judges to read the nominations and select the winner. In assembling a jury, they seek to represent the diversity of feminism and the many movements with which it intersects—in terms of age, race, gender, sexual identity, geography; locations inside and outside the academy; intellectual and artistic pursuits and disciplines; political and organizing experiences; and self-definition as feminists and activists beyond feminism.

For more information, visit Ann Snitow Prize.