The inaugural AIR MAIL prizes for fiction and reportage will be awarded to two of the year’s most promising young authors. The prizes are named after Tom Wolfe, the vanguard of New Journalism—and devotee of the Montblanc Meisterstück pen—whose wryness, imagination, and flair make his name a byword for the best that fiction and nonfiction writing have to offer. And they are brought to life with the help of the master calligrapher Bernard Maisner.

The winners will be chosen by a nominating committee to be announced soon, and each prize will be accompanied by a $10,000 honorarium to put toward furthering their craft. Readers of AIR MAIL also have the opportunity to submit authors’ names by e-mailing litprize@airmail.news. Winners will be announced in the fall, and celebrated at a dinner at the Waverly Inn.