The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism, 2024

and

The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Criticism, 2024

In 2011, as a memorial to its founding President Dr Allan Lloyd Smith (1945-2010), the International Gothic Association established the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize to be awarded for a scholarly publication considered to have significantly advanced the field of Gothic studies. For the current round of nominations, monographs published between January 1st 2022 to December 31st 2023 are eligible.

In addition, as of 2024, the International Gothic Association is inaugurating a new prize to honour the memory of Justin D. Edwards, past co-president of the IGA and beloved colleague and friend. As such, the IGA is inaugurating the Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize, for an edited collection considered to have significantly advanced the field of Gothic studies. For the current round of nominations, edited collections published between January 1st 2019 to December 31st 2023 are eligible.

We are delighted to announce that there will be £100 awarded for each prize. 

We are now accepting nominations and each IGA member is entitled to nominate for either or both prizes. 

Nominations for the prizes need to be received no later than 23.59 (UTC) on Thursday 29th February 2024. 

Nominations for either award should be sent to Dr Matt Foley, Secretary to the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for Gothic Criticism, via e-mail: matthew.foley@mmu.ac.uk. Please note that self-nominations will not be accepted.

The Chair for the 2024 prize panel is Dr Sara-Patricia Wasson (Lancaster University). A panel of past Presidents and winners will assess the nominations before drawing up a shortlist that will be published on the IGA website. The panel reserves the right not to make an award should no nominated work satisfy the criteria of the Prize. 

Nominations may be submitted only by individual members of the IGA, though nominated works do not have to have been published by a member of the Association. Short articles, individual chapters in longer volumes, original fiction and poetry are not eligible, though scholarly (i.e., introduced, annotated and resourced) editions of Gothic texts may be considered. 

The panel will advise the serving Joint-Presidents of their decision on the winner prior to the IGA conference, which, this year, is hosted at Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia, Canada, in late July. 

The prizes will be presented (or, if a winning author is not present, announced) during the conference.