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Providing Major Funds for the Dan’s Papers Literary Prize for Nonfiction
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• Logo recognition on ads promoting the event in all Manhattan Media publications.
• Gold Sponsor of the event will be on all collateral materials, event signage at Guild Hall during the event, press releases, etc. that are produced for Dan’s Literary Prize by Dan’s Papers.
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• One full page color ad in Dan’s Papers
• Prominent name recognition on the Dan’s Literary Prize flyer, poster and postcards that will be distributed across the East End and at libraries throughout Long Island.
• Recognition in Dan’s Literary Prize Program distributed to all guests attending the awards ceremony (approx 400); one half page, prominently placed acknowledgement ad in the program.
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• Prominent name recognition at the John Drew Theater, East Hampton during the awards ceremony (manner and placement TBD)
• Company recognized and thanked for their support from stage during the awards ceremony by one of the presenters.
Media Recognition
• Gold Sponsor of the event will be in all press releases produced by Dan’s Papers for the event.
• The opportunity to produce press releases promoting company participation in the event (all such releases are subject to prior approval by Dan’s Papers)
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• Four orchestra seats to the August Awards Ceremony at Guild Hall will be reserved for Platinum Sponsors.
• Recognized and listed as a Silver Sponsor of Dan’s Literary Prize
• Silver Sponsor of the event will be on all collateral materials, event signage at Guild Hall during the event, press releases, etc. that are produced for Dan’s Literary Prize by Dan’s Papers.
• Logo recognition on ads promoting the event in all Manhattan Media publications, estimated media value of $200,000.
Digital Recognition
• Top-tier logo recognition on the Dan’s Literary Prize Homepage with a link to the company’s website.
• Top-tier logo or line-listing recognition (where applicable) in the flyer, and email blasts promoting the event sent to the following email databases (Manhattan Media, Dan’s Papers Newsletter)
• A 300 x 125 ad on the Dan’s Literary Prize webpages. (location TBD)
• Logo recognition on the SPONSORS page of Dan’s Literary Prize webpages.
• One proprietary email blasts during a 90 day period from May to August to Dan’s Papers Newsletter database
• The opportunity to promote your participation in the event on your company’s Website
Print Recognition
• One half page color ad in Dan’s Papers
• Prominent name recognition on the Dan’s Liteary Prize flyer, poster and postcards that will be distributed across the East End , and libraries throughout Long Island.
• Recognition in Dan’s Literary Prize Program distributed to all guests attending the awards ceremony (approx 400); one half page, prominently-placed acknowledgement ad in the program.
On-Site Recognition
• Prominent event signage at the John Drew Theater, East Hampton during the awards ceremony (manner and placement TBD)
Media Recognition
• Silver Sponsor of the event will be in all press releases produced by Dan’s Papers for the event.
• The opportunity to produce press releases promoting company participation in the event (all such releases are subject to prior approval by Dan’s Papers)
Tickets
• Four orchestra seats to the August Awards Ceremony at Guild Hall will be reserved for Silver Sponsors.
• Recognized and listed as a Bronze Sponsor of Dan’s Literary Prize
Digital Recognition
• Top-tier line-listing recognition in the flyer, and email blasts promoting the event sent to the following email databases (Manhattan Media, Dan’s Papers Newsletter)
• Logo recognition on the SPONSORS page of Dan’s Literary Prize webpages.
• The opportunity to promote your participation in theevent on your company’s Website
• One third of a page color ad in Dan’s PapersPrint Recognition
• Prominent name recognition on the Dan’s Literary Prize flyer, poster and postcards that will be distributed across the East End, and libraries throughout Long Island.
Media Recognition
• Bronze Sponsors of the event will be included in ainitial press release produced by Manhattan Media for the event.
• The opportunity to produce press releases promoting company participation in the event (all such releases are subject to prior approval by Dan’s Papers)
Tickets
• Two orchestra seats to the August Awards Ceremony at Guild Hall will be reserved for Bronze Sponsors.
Dan’s Papers is pleased to announce that James Keith Phillips is the winner of the first Dan’s Papers $6,000 Literary Prize for Nonfiction. The award ceremony took place at The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York this weekend in front of a packed house. James Keith Phillips’ winning essay was called “Magic Shirts.” The two runners up were Jean Ely for “Waiting For The Ferry” and Susan Cohen for “Littoral Drifter.”
Cohen and Ely each received a $500 prize. Phillips, who is a member of the Shinnecock Nation, received $5000. More than 400 entries of short nonfiction (600 to 1500 words) were entered in this contest, which required entrants to reference the East End of Long Island in a meaningful way. Dan Rattiner, the founder and editor in chief of Dan’s Papers, opened the event by noting that for the last 25 years, Dan’s Papers has showcased artists on the cover of the publication, and now wants to give a similar honor to showcase the writers.
The awards ceremony featured a speech by best-selling author Robert Caro, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and the National Book Award for his biographies of Robert Mosesand Lyndon Johnson. Caro was also the Honorary Chair of the 2012 Dan’s Papers Prize for Nonfiction.
“As far as we know this is the first literary prize ever offered on the eastern end of Long Island for short literary nonfiction,” he said.
Len Riggio, Chairman of Barnes & Noble, presented the trophy to the winner of the event and spoke at length before doing so. He spoke about the power of regular, everyday people as writers; being impressed with the quality of the entries to the contest; and how he looks forward to this award’s continuing into the future.
After the presentation, the winning entry was read aloud by Emmy Award winning broadcast journalist Pia Lindstrom.
The judges for the first year competition were as follows: Martin Shepard of The Permanent Press, author Chris Knopf, radio personality Bonnie Grice, book reviewer Joan Baum, editor Elise D’Haene, and Jim Marquardt, the Chairman of Marquardt and Roche Advertising, along with Len Riggio of Barnes & Noble.
RULES FOR 2013
•The 2013 competition is open for entries between January 15, 2013 and July 31, 2013 at 11:59 p.m.
•There is a $25 fee per each submission to enter. Individuals may enter up to 3 submissions.
•For 2013, entries must be submitted digitally via the submission form in the enter section. Copy and paste from your word processing program into the field provided on the submission form. The form will automatically detect how many words are present.
•Entries must all be prose. No poetry, please.
•Each work must be between 600 and 1500 words and can be any sort of nonfiction, including autobiography, biography, account of a day, opinion, history, profile of a person or institution, memoir, essay or humor. It may be an excerpt from a previously published work but can only be considered as an entry if permission is granted to the competition for its use.
•The works must reference in some meaningful way eastern Long Island.
•All works submitted will remain the property of the writer or their agents. However, writers submitting to win the Dan’s Papers $6,000 Literary Prize for Nonfiction grant Dan’s Papers the right to publish the submissions in Dan’s Papers and any of its publications, on danshamptons.com and its digital affiliates, understanding that the pieces will become part of the permanent archive of Dan’s Papers, its websites and its affiliates and may reappear in retrospective issues and in digital archives, and that in submitting each writer agrees to their pieces’ use in such ways.
•The work of deceased writers will not be eligible. Entries by anonymous writers will not be eligible. Works by employees of Dan’s Papers and Manhattan Media will not be eligible. Works of poetry will not be eligible. All entrants must attest to the originality of the work submitted.
•Winners will be determined by an independent panel of judges. One first-place award and two second-place awards will be given.
•Dan’s Papers reserves the right to publish select entries, as determined by the editors, in Dan’s Papers and online at danshamptons.com, together with an author biography and thumbnail photo, as promotion for the prize throughout the duration of the submission period. An honorarium of $50 will be paid to the author of any work published. Such publication and usage in no way relates to the judging process nor implies that an entry has won any award.
•All contestants grant Dan’s Papers the right to publish any entries to the Dan’s Papers Literary Prize for Nonfiction in forthcoming digital and print collections, including but not limited to the 2013 DAN’S HAMPTONS REVIEW literary journal.
