Townsend Prize

The Townsend Prize for Fiction is awarded biennially (that is, every two years) to a writer from the U.S. state of Georgia for the best novel published during those years, by the Georgia Center for the Book and The Chattahoochee Review at Georgia Perimeter College, which assumed sponsorship of the award in 1997 from Georgia State University. The award was named in honor of the founding editor of Atlanta magazine, Jim Townsend. It was first granted in 1982.

For more in-depth information about The Townsend Prize for Fiction, including its history and criteria for eligibility visit the prize's new web site hosted by Georgia Perimeter College at http://gpc.edu/townsend.

The awarding of the 2014 Townsend Prize for Fiction took place on Thursday, April, 24, 2014 at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The novel God Carlos by Anthony C. Winkler won the prize. The keynote address was presented by celebrated author and National Book Award Winner, Ms. Jesmyn Ward. The nine other finalists for the 2014 award were:

Details about the next awarding of the prize will be made available on the prize's web site beginning in January 2016.

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