Announcement: Legacy contest for best paper at the SSAWW conference

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers is happy to announce a contest to honor the best papers presented at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference (5-9 November 2025) in Philadelphia. Two prizes will be awarded, one for the best paper presented by a graduate student, and one for the best paper presented by a non-student member of SSAWW. If you attended the conference and read your paper in person, you are eligible to submit that paper for this award.

The winners will be invited to expand their papers for publication in a future issue of Legacy.

Submit your paper to Legacy Coeditor Kim D. Hester Williams at kdhwilliams.legacy@gmail.com by 3 December 2025.