Announcements: CELJ Distinguished Editor Award Huntington Centennial Essay Prize

the huntington library quarterly is pleased to announce that Susan Green, editor emerita, was honored with the 2018 Distinguished Editor Award by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. The vice president of CELJ, John Duvall of Purdue University, presented the award at the Modern Language Association's annual conference in Chicago on January 5, 2019. His citation read, in part, "Two aspects of Susan Green's work stand out: first, the meticulous attention she devoted to the editorial process … and second, the work she did to elevate the profile of Huntington Library Quarterly through the crafting of topics for special issues and the creation of partnerships with university presses. Her accomplishments exhibit the many tasks at which editors of scholarly journals must excel, ranging from marketing to minute scrutiny of sentences, from networking with scholars to fostering intellectual creativity."

Green led the journal from 1993 to 2016. Her many achievements include the tightening of the period focus of the journal, the transformation of its physical presence with an emphasis on the quality of materials and design, the expansion and cultivation of its editorial board, the modeling and mentoring of editorial excellence among its staff, the management of a transition to digital formats, and the fostering of highly influential special issues. She continues to guide young editors as an instructor in the University of Southern California's Literary Editing and Publishing program. We congratulate her on the occasion of this well-deserved recognition.

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the huntington library quarterly invites submissions for the Huntington Centennial Essay Prize. Offered in celebration of the Huntington Library's centennial in 2019–20, the prize aims to promote scholarship in British and American studies from the sixteenth through the long eighteenth centuries. The journal encourages interdisciplinary approaches and embraces research in all humanities fields. The competition is open to scholars at any stage. Essays need not be based on research in the Huntington Library's collections. The deadline for entry is October 1, 2019.

The award: The prize carries a cash award of $1,000 usd to the author, and the winning essay will be published in the journal. Entries must not have been published or be under submission elsewhere. In addition to appearing in the print publication and in Project MUSE for subscribers, the essay will be freely available on the journal's University of Pennsylvania Press website (https://hlq.pennpress.org) and promoted there for the period of a year. The prize-winning essay will also be announced on appropriate websites and forums.

Preparing the manuscript: We do not require submitters to put their manuscripts into our house style before acceptance, although you may; details are at the University of Pennylvania Press website. Application should be made via the HLQ's online review and submission system, https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/hlq. Indicate by checking the checkbox that you wish your essay to be considered for the prize, and please let us know how you heard about the award. Word limit: 10,000 words, including notes.

Evaluation: The awards committee is composed of a minimum of three members of the HLQ editorial board, selected to cover the topics of the submissions received and chaired by the (nonvoting) editor. The committee may solicit outside reviews in the event that no board member has expertise in the topic of a submission. Submissions will be blinded, and the process will meet the journal's ordinary requirements for peer review. Board members will assess essays based on their originality and the significance of their contribution to their field, their interest to an interdisciplinary audience, the persuasiveness of their argument, and the quality of their writing. The journal reserves the right not to award the prize. The decision will be announced by the end of 2019. Direct questions to hlq@huntington.org.