{"id":31215,"date":"2025-05-29T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/?p=31215"},"modified":"2025-05-29T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:25:52","slug":"the-2025-robert-traver-fly-fishing-writing-award-final-call-for-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/2025\/05\/29\/the-2025-robert-traver-fly-fishing-writing-award-final-call-for-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Robert Traver Fly Fishing Writing Award: Final Call for Submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only two days left for 2025 Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award (the Traver Award) submissions!<\/h3>\n

This 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

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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 Humour: 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

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<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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

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Reel Talk With AMFF Curator Jim Schottenham: Episode 7<\/h3>\n

On Thursday, May 29, at 3 p.m. EDT, AMFF curator Jim Schottenham will present his seventh Zoom seminar highlighting a special selection of fly reels from the museum\u2019s \u201cWish List\u201d of items that we would like to see added to our permanent collection. As past president of the Old Reel Collectors Association and former reel expert for Lang\u2019s Tackle Auction, Jim has spent decades collecting, studying, and writing about antique reels for numerous publications. Reels selected for the upcoming webinar include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reel Selections
\nAnson Hatch side-mount, c. 1866
\nFred Malleson\u2019s Patent Multiplying Reel, c. 1883
\nFrederick Skinner\u2019s Archimedian Reel, c. 1848
\nEdward Vom Hofe\u2019s Model 360 Perfection Fly Reel, c. 1890s
\nAndrew Chapin Reel, c. 1899
\nAlround No. 50 Reel, c. 1892
\nGeorge Gates Fly Reel, c. 1888
\nSmith Patent\/Barnum & Morehouse, c. 1882<\/p>\n

Get The Zoom Link For Reel Talk Episode 7<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Only two days left for 2025 Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award (the Traver Award) submissions! This 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     […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31218,"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-31215","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