Here we go! The short list for the 2017 Literary Awards Program! The Long List is right here.
What an amazing selection of manuscripts we received this year. The closer we get to the final three winners, the harder it is to select which manuscripts move on through the process. This is a tough competition this year, so we may see an even shorter list of 10-15 finalists before we announce the winners. Expect that sometime in October. We should still be on track with my original timeline.
So, enough from me. Let’s get to the list. In no particular order:
Diane Josefowicz: Guardians & Saints
Stephanie Harper: Wesley Yorstead Goes Outside
Allison Green: At Fifty: Essays
Sonja Coppenbarger: The Banshee of Machrae
Michele Swide: Melanie Loves Edith
Lourdes Rosado: Riding the Number 7
Marisa Clark: Hermosa
Kate Wisel: Driving in Cars with Homeless Men
Deborah McCutchen: The Whale Road
Caroline Manring: Some Trace More Permanent
Matthew Levine: Hollow
Susanne Davis: The Appointed Hour
Elizabeth Lantz: Baking Bread
Joan Schweighardt: River Promises
Doug Crandell: Tornado Season
Ashley Barsody: Who We Are
Scott MacGregor: Tunnel To Hell~The Lake Erie Tunnel Disasters~Tales of Heroism and Tragedy~A Graphic Novel
Dwaine Rieves: Shirtless Men
Wendy Fox: If the Ice Had Held
Julie Dalton: The Poachers’ Code
Ross Wilcox: Golden Gate Jumper Survivors Society: Stories
Justin Gardiner: Beneath the Shadow: Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic
Brooke Larson: Pleasing Tree
Jonathan Escoffery: If I Survive You
Sarah Townsend: Inverted Skin: A Memoir of a Postpartum Psychosis
Christina Milletti: Choke Box: a Fem-Noir
Brian Heston: Billy Penn’s Hat
Alexandria Constantinova Szeman: M is for Munchers
Colleen Rich: Things You Won’t Tell Your Therapist: Stories