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5th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced

July 15, 2017 By

July 16, 2017

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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 2018. The Longlist, selected from 42 entries, is:


Home Field
by Hannah Gersen
(William Morrow Paperbacks)
 Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
Rabbit Cake
by Annie Hartnett
(Tin House Books)
Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie & Clyde in the Last Days, by Jeff P. Jones
Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie & Clyde in the Last Days
by Jeff P. Jones
(Texas Review Press)
Miracles of Marie Antoinette - Knipper - Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin
by Stephanie Knipper
(Algonquin Books)
Barrowfields, Phillip Lewis, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
The Barrowfields
by Phillip Lewis
(Hogarth)
Nicholas Manieri, The Infinite, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
The Infinite
by Nicholas Mainieri
(HarperCollins)

One Good Mama Bone, Bren McClain, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
One Good Mama Bone
by Bren McClain
(Story River Books/University of South Carolina Press)

Thomas Jefferson's Dreams of Sally Hemings, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List, Stephen O'Connor
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
by Stephen O’Connor
(Viking)

Work Like Any Other, Virginia Reeves, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
Work Like Any Other
by Virginia Reeves
(Scribner)
The Second Mrs. Hockaday, Susan Rivers, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
The Second Mrs. Hockaday
by Susan Rivers
(Algonquin Books)

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Event – Southern Fried Fiction

January 9, 2017 By

The Crook’s Corner Book Prize

Thursday, December 7
7:00 pm
In Meeting Room B
Chapel Hill Public Library

 

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About the 5th Annual Book Prize Winner

January 1, 2017 By

STEPHEN O’CONNOR is the author of the novel, Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings, two collections of short fiction, Here Comes Another Lesson and Rescue, and of two works of nonfiction, Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, a memoir, and Orphan Trains; The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed, biography/history.

His fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, One Story, The Missouri Review, Poetry Magazine, Electric Literature, The New England Review, The Quarterly, among many other places.

His story, “Next to Nothing” was selected by Jennifer Egan for Best American Short Stories 2014, and another story, “Ziggurat,” was read by Tim Curry on Selected Shorts in October 2011 and June 2013.

His essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, DoubleTake, The Nation, Agni, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The New Labor Forum, and elsewhere.

He teaches in the Sarah Lawrence MFA writing program.

Author website www.stephenoconnor.net

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The 2019 Book Prize Winner

A Kind of Freedom

by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
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The 2020 Book Prize Judge

Charles Frazier grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Cold Mountain (1997), his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, won the National Book Award in 1997, and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film by Anthony Minghella in 2003.
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Events

Announcement party January 7, 2019

Thanks to The Franklin Hotel for providing a room for our winner, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton.


Chapel Hill Library panel discussion January 8, 2019

"New South, New Voices: Diverse Authors, Fresh Perspectives."


Readers' Party, September 6, 2018

Readers' Party, September 6, 2018
Readers' Party, September 6, 2018

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