Name	Educator's Award
Description	The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International maintains an Educator's Award Fund for the stimulation of educational research and writing. This award recognizes outstanding women authors whose work may influence the direction of thought and action necessary to meet the needs of today's complex society. The content must be of more than local interest with relationship, direct or implied, to education everywhere.
Deadline	February 1
URL	http://www.deltakappagamma.org/International/whatwedo/educators_award/
Prize	$1,500

Name	Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
Description	Born April 30, 1945, Annie Dillard is best known for her nature-themed writing. She has explored her past and present dealings with nature through poetry, essays and novels. Often compared to Thoreau and other transcendentalist writers,
Deadline	March 15, 2006
URL	http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~bhreview/anniedillard.htm
Prize	$1,000
Eligibility	Open to any writer

Name	Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary prize
Description	The year 2006 marks the sixteenth anniversary of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary prize, a $20,000 award given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies. First announced a year after the Center's founding at Duke University, the prize was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor published An American Exodus, a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images and remains a seminal work in documentary studies. The Lange-Taylor Prize honors their important collaborative work.
Deadline	All required materials must be submitted under one cover during the month of January and postmarked no later than January 31, 2006.
URL	http://cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/index.html
Prize	The amount of the award is $10,000.

Name	Independent Publisher Book Awards
Description	Calling All Independent Authors and Publishers!  The 10th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards, conducted to honor the year's best independently published titles are accepting nominees for books with 2005 copyrights or that were released in 2005. This year we are offering 60 categories and best fiction and non-fiction awards in ten (10) new North American regions. Discounted pricing is available for a limited time. Enter today!  The Independent Publisher Book Awards (The IPPYs) are a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry, and are open to authors and publishers who produce books intended for the North American market.
Deadline	All entries must be postmarked by April 1, 2006.
URL	http://www.independentpublisher.com/ipaward.lasso
Eligibility	Open to any published writer

Name	ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award
Description	ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award was established to bring increased attention from librarians and booksellers to the literary achievements of independent publishers and their authors. A jury of librarians, booksellers and reviewers are selected to judge the categories for entry, and they select winners and finalists based on editorial excellence and professional production as well as the originality of the narrative and the value the book adds to its genre.
Deadline	Entries must be postmarked by January 17, 2006
URL	http://www.writerstrust.com/
Prize	$1,500 cash prize
Eligibility	Open to any writer