Devil's Kitchen Reading Award

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The Devil's Kitchen Reading Awards are given every year at the Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festival at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.{{cite web|url=http://grassroots.siu.edu/dkawardwinners.html|title=The Devil's Kitchen Reading Award Winners in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Prose|website=grassroots.siu.edu}} The prize was first given in 2005. From 2005-2014, there were two prizes given each year, one in poetry and one in prose. Starting in 2015, there were three categories: poetry, prose fiction, and prose non-fiction.{{cite web|url=http://grassroots.siu.edu/dkawards.html|title=The Devil's Kitchen Reading Awards in Poetry (Emerging and Established Poets), Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, and Nonfiction Prose|website=grassroots.siu.edu}} The judges for the award are drawn from the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at SIU.