Crooks Corner Book Prize 11th Annual Longlist Announced

6th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced

July 17, 2018

The Crook’s Corner Book Prize Foundation announces its annual Longlist for best debut novels set in the American South. The $5000 prize will be presented in January 2019. The Longlist is:

Maranatha Road
by Heather Bell Adams
(Vandalia Press)

The Floating World
by C. Morgan Babst
(Algonquin Books)

Whiskey & Ribbons
by Leesa Cross-Smith
(Hub City Press)

The Talented Ribkins
by Ladee Hubbard
(Melville House)

Panorama
by Steve Kistulentz
(Little Brown and Company)

Fire Sermon
by Jamie Quatro
(Grove Atlantic)

Shadow of the Lions
by Christopher Swann
(Algonquin Books)

How to Survive a Summer
by Nick White
(Blue Rider Press)

A Kind of Freedom
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
(Counterpoint Press)

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11TH ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE WINNER

The Old Place
by Bobby Finger
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11th Annual Announcement Party

2024 Announcement Party at The Crunkleton— Winner Bobby Finger with this year’s judge Wiley Cash and CCBP president Anna Hayes

11th Annual Readers' Party

Author Jill McCorkle and Algonquin Books co-founder Shannon Ravenel join CCBP Readers attending this year’s Thank You party.

THE 11TH ANNUAL LONGLIST

Longlist Announced!
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10th Annual Virtual Announcement Party

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10TH ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE WINNER

Shadows of Pecan Hollow
by Caroline Frost
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THE 10TH ANNUAL SHORTLIST

Shortlist Announced!
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THE 10TH ANNUAL LONGLIST

Longlist Announced!
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THE 9TH ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE WINNER

Things We Lost to the Water
by Eric Nguyen
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THE 10TH ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE JUDGE

Ben Fountain was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in eastern North Carolina. His most recent book is Beautiful Country Burn Again, a narrative, with history, of the 2016 presidential election. He is also the author of the novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, which was adapted for film by three-time Oscar winner Ang Lee, and the short story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara.
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THE 2021 BOOK PRIZE WINNER

As a River
by Sion Dayson
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THE 2022 BOOK PRIZE JUDGE

Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight…
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THE 2020 BOOK PRIZE WINNER

Atlas of Reds and Blues

by Devi S. Laskar
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