MLA Prize for an Edited Collection
Competition in 2025 for Edited Collections Published in 2023 or 2024
Open Only to Members of the Association
The Modern Language Association’s Committee on Honors and Awards invites editors to compete for the third biennial Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited Collection. Established in 2019 to recognize the intellectual labor involved in producing edited collections, the prize is given without regard to the language of the text presented in the work as long as the work falls within the subject scope of the MLA (e.g., modern languages and literatures, composition theory, folklore, linguistics). Editors must be current MLA members, but contributors to the collections need not be. The prize, which consists of a cash award and a certificate, will be presented to the winning editor at the association’s annual convention in January 2026.
Editors or publishers who wish to submit a work are asked to fill out a submission form.
- If you are an editor submitting a work, please use this form.
- If you are a publisher submitting a work, please use this form.
Publishers may submit more than one title. Books that have been entered in this competition may also compete for one other prize that is not the James Russell Lowell Prize or the MLA Prize for a First Book, provided they meet eligibility requirements. Entries may be sent at any time but must be received by 1 May 2025. The winning editor will be notified in September, and a public announcement will be made in early December. Because of the volume of submissions, we regret that we are unable to contact each entrant individually.
For further information, write the coordinator of book prizes (awards@mla.org).