2013 Awards Shortlist — Fiction

Last week, we posted the longlist of finalists for the 2013 Awards program — Fiction Category. Here is the shortlist… Matthew Burnside — Bestiary and Other Tales of Monsters Dan Moreau — A Tour of North American Ruins Sandy Maren —...

2013 Awards Program — Nonfiction Shortlist

A few days ago, we posted the long list for the 2013 Awards Program in Nonfiction. We now have a short list of eleven finalists (and, next stop, in a week or two, we’ll know the final results): Allen Gee — My Chinese America William Bradley — Cells...

2013 Finalists — Fiction

Here are the 2013 Literary Awards Program finalists in the Fiction category. Judging should be complete in early October, selecting a grand prize-winner and two runner ups. For Fiction and for nonfiction, I’ll have a shortlist of 10 finalists in the next couple...

2013 Finalists — Nonfiction

Here they are! They finalists for the 2013 Awards Program Nonfiction Category. The entries below are in no particular order. Judging continues, and we plan to announce a grand prize-winner and two runner-ups by the end of the month… Let me know if I made any...

Chocolá Is a False Cognate

Chocolá can be reached by traveling from Guatemala City along a labyrinthine network of mountain roads leading to a region neither exactly in the highlands nor exactly in the lowlands known to archaeologists as the “Southern Maya Zone.” It is a real place. I have been...

Excerpt from Joe Schuster’s The Might Have Been

Joseph M. Schuster. In 2004, Literary Awards Program judge Richard Currey saw a remarkable talent and, with two others, placed Schuster’s entry, A Saint in the Family, solidly in the winner’s circle. Now, this year, Schuster has released his first book...