Nominate the Best RPCV Books of 2020 — awards will be announced in August 2021

To further fulfill its goals to encourage, recognize and promote Peace Corps writers, RPCV Writers & Readers, the newsletter that was the precursor of PeaceCorpsWriters.org and PeaceCorpsWorldwide.org, presented its first annual awards for outstanding writing in 1990. Over 170 awards have been given since that time.

The awards are:

• The Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award
• The Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award
• The Maria Thomas Fiction Award
• The Award for Best Peace Corps Memoir
• The Award for Best Book of Poetry
• The Award for Best Short Story Collection
• The Award for Best Travel Book
• The Rowland Scherman Award for Best Photography Book
• The Marian Haley Beil Award for the Best Book Review
• The Award for Best Children’s Book about a Peace Corps Country
• Other Awards

Send your nomination(s) to John Coyne at jcoyneone@gmail.com (You may nominate your own book. Make sure you are nominating a book that was published in 2020.)