Mary Roberts Rinehart Fiction Award English

To help aspiring authors, the family of the late Mary Roberts Rinehart began a number of years ago awarding small grants to writers whose work showed particular promise. These grants were given to honor Ms. Rinehart, a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work was popular in the earlier decades of the 1900s. In 1983, the Rinehart family established The Mary Roberts Rinehart Fund at George Mason University to finance annual grants to promising writers. Currently, three grants are awarded in spring for the best nominated manuscript in fiction, in nonfiction, and in poetry.

2017 Awardees

Michelle Orabona

Michelle Orabona

Winner

Ben Rader

Ben Rader

Honorable Mention

Sarah Wheeler

Sarah Wheeler

Honorable Mention