We do not review or evaluate manuscripts for literary merit or market potential. (dorrancepublishing.com)
This award recognizes an outstanding book in fiction or nonfiction that demonstrates the highest literary merit as a creative or scholarly work on the theme of visual artists or art. (vmfa.museum)
Instead of choosing books with literary merit - universal themes, rich language, complex characters - we selected simpler stories with characters to whom we thought our students could relate. (educationnext.org)