{"id":30655,"date":"2025-02-17T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/?p=30655"},"modified":"2025-02-08T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T17:05:30","slug":"the-2025-robert-traver-fly-fishing-writing-award-a-call-for-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/2025\/02\/17\/the-2025-robert-traver-fly-fishing-writing-award-a-call-for-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award: A Call for Submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The John D. Voelker Foundation and the American Museum of Fly Fishing (AMFF) are pleased to announce that submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award (the Traver Award). The award is named after Robert Traver, pen name for the late John Voelker, author of Trout Madness, Trout Magic, Anatomy of a Fisherman, the 1958 best seller Anatomy of a Murder, and the historical novel Laughing Whitefish.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Traver Award, which includes a $2,500 prize, was created in 1994 to encourage and recognize \u00a0\u201cdistinguished original stories or essays that embody the implicit love of fly fishing, respect for \u00a0the sport, and the natural world in which it takes place.\u201d The Traver stories and essays must demonstrate high literary values in one or more of these three categories:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The joy of fly fishing: personal and philosophic experience
\n\u2022 Ecology: knowledge and protection of the natural world
\n\u2022 Humor: piscatorial friendships and fun on the water<\/p>\n

The 2025 Traver Award will be granted for the winning short work of fiction or non-fiction essay in the English language not previously published commercially in print or digital media. \u201cShort work\u201d means 3,000 words or less. An entry fee of $25 will offset the administrative costs of the award program. Previous Traver Award winners are not eligible. All entrants will be required to certify that no part of their entry was generated by artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n

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The deadline for submissions is midnight on May 31, 2025. The submission form and additional rules and instructions can be found on the Voelker Foundation website (www.voelkerfoundation.com).<\/p>\n

The Traver Award winner will be notified in September 2025. The winning entry will be published in the Winter or Spring 2026 edition of the\u00a0American Fly Fisher, the journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing, as well as on the AMFF and Voelker Foundation websites.<\/p>\n

The winner of the 2024 Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award was \u201cLast Salad on the Gairezi\u201d by George Rogers, a high school science and English teacher from Chateaugay, New York, and Cantwell, Alaska, where he owns and operates Denali Angler, a summer fly-fishing guide service. This is a personal story of fly fishing for non-native trout in Zimbabwe that provides insightful context for destination fishing in a country with a complicated history.<\/p>\n

The Traver Award judges also bestowed Honorable Mention recognition on two other entries:
\n\u2022 \u201cBlind Willie\u2019s Pool\u201d by Chris Bishop of Beckenham, Kent, United Kingdom
\n\u2022 \u201cHow to Say Gila\u201d by Joseph Jackson of Anchorage, Alaska
\nThe 2024 competition drew a field of 100 stories and essays. Entries were judged anonymously, resulting in eight finalists. The other five finalists were:
\n\u2022 \u201cBeginnings\u201d by David Wickline III of Lynchburg, Virginia
\n\u2022 \u201cFollowing Filleul\u201d by Michelle Werrett of Tiverton, Devon, United Kingdom
\n\u2022 \u201cBetween the Snow and the Second Line\u201d by Katie MacDonald of Charlottestown, \u00a0Prince Edward Island, Canada
\n\u2022 \u201cFrom the Clear Waters\u201d by Mark Cudney of Wayland, New York
\n\u2022 \u201cThe Man from Leksand\u201d by Moncrieff Cochran of South Orleans, Massachusetts
\nSince 1994, twenty-six Traver Awards have been given. Two anthologies of the Traver Award winners and finalists have been published: In Hemingway\u2019s Meadow (2009) and Love Story of the Trout (2010).<\/p>\n

The Voelker Foundation and the American Museum of Fly Fishing joined forces in 2018 to administer the Traver Award and publish the winner in the AMFF journal. For more information, see www.voelkerfoundation.com and www.amff.org.<\/p>\n

Learn More & Read past Winners<\/a><\/p>\n

American Museum of Fly Fishing<\/strong>, 4070 Main Street Manchester, VT 05254, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The John D. Voelker Foundation and the American Museum of Fly Fishing (AMFF) are pleased to announce that submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award (the Traver Award). The award is named after Robert Traver, pen name for the late John Voelker, author of Trout Madness, Trout Magic, Anatomy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,42],"tags":[3751,1831],"class_list":["post-30655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitons","category-general","tag-american-museum-of-fly-fishing","tag-amff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t