About the Maurice Prize
The College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis, and New York Times best-selling novelist John Lescroart, host the Maurice Prize in Fiction. The Prize will return in 2022, with further information to follow in May. The Prize is now administered by the College of Letters and Science; for more details, please contact Tamara Dawley.
The Maurice prize is awarded for the best sustained work of fiction (a novel, novel in stories, or other sustained book-length prose fiction form) submitted by alumni who have not yet published or had a book-length manuscript in fiction accepted for publication by the contest deadline.
Literary merit is the over-riding criterion in the selection of the winning entry. John Lescroart has provided the $5,000 gift in honor of his father, Maurice Lescroart. The $5,000 award has been given annually since 2005.
There is no entry fee.