THE RESTLESS BOOKS PRIZE FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING

• For an outstanding debut literary work by a first-generation immigrant

• Winner receives $10,000 and publication by Restless Books

• To be awarded for fiction and nonfiction in alternating years

• Submissions for the 2020 Prize in Fiction are open from October 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020 

• The winner of the 2019 Prize in Nonfiction is Rajiv Mohabir for his memoir Antiman. Read more here.

• The winner of the 2018 Prize in Fiction is Priyanka A. Champaneri for her novel The City of Good Death. Read more here.

• The winner of the 2017 Prize in Nonfiction is Grace Talusan for her memoir The Body Papers. Read more here. 

• The 2016 winner is Deepak Unnikrishnan for his novel Temporary People. Read more here.