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2020 Saturday 'Visiter' Award Winners

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Prize medal presented to Saturday 'Visiter' Award Winners

The Saturday Visiter Awards

The Saturday Visiter Awards are a new honor, presented by Poe Baltimore, recognizing Edgar Allan Poe’s continuing legacy in the arts and literature around the world.  The prizes will honor media, art, performance and writing that adapts or is inspired by Poe’s life and works. 


Though he was not wealthy in his lifetime, Edgar Allan Poe was the first American writer to support himself entirely by his pen. The Saturday Visiter was the name—and spelling—of a local periodical that held a contest for poetry and short stories. Poe won the award for his short story “MS Found in a Bottle” (which he wrote at Poe House.) The Saturday Visiter Awards are named after the prize a young Edgar Allan Poe won while he lived in Baltimore which helped to launch the famed writer’s career. 


Saturday Visiter Awards will be given in two categories: works that adapt Poe’s life or writing(including biography, or true adaptations of his poetry or prose), and original works that are inspired by Poe’s life or writing. In addition, important "Poe Places", including The Poe Museum (Richmond, VA) ,  The Poe Cottage (the Bronx NYC) and Poe House (Baltimore , MD) will highlight exceptional entries specific to their region. The awards will be presented at The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards in October 2019, in Baltimore, Maryland. 

 

Poe Baltimore is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization created to fund, maintain and interpret The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, and to celebrate the legacy of one of Baltimore’s most famous residents. The organization is dedicated to maintaining the museum as a vibrant experience for the thousands of visitors who come from around the world each year, and as part of a broader mission of city-wide events and educational opportunities celebrating Poe’s legacy in Baltimore and beyond.  


Click here to read the Saturday Visiter Awards Guidelines for Entry or download the PDF below. Call for entries will open January 19, 2021.

2021 Call for Entries: Jan 19!

Call for entries for the 2021 SVA will open on Poe's birthday, January 19, 2021.  


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Submit an Entry for the Saturday Visiter Awards

Please be sure to read the "SVA Guidelines" then click here to complete the form for entry.

You will complete $25.00 payment for entry once your form is submitted.

Call for entries re-opens January 19, 2021.

Guidelines For Entry

SVA Entry Guidelines updated 12-06-2020 (pdf)Download

2020 Saturday Visiter Awards Winners

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