The Premio Aztlán Literary Prize is a national literary award for emerging Chicana and Chicano authors, founded in 1993 by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya.
[1] The award was originally sponsored by the University of New Mexico, but was moved in 2008 to the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
[2] The award is limited to short-story collections and novels (but not children's or young-adult novels) published by a professional press during the previous calendar year.
Moreover, the author must be living and must not have published more than two books.
The winner receives $1,000 and presents a lecture at that year's National Latino Writers Conference.