Winner Announced for the 6th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize
Winner Announced for the 6th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize January 8, 2019 Download THE PRESS RELEASE MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON WINS $5000 CROOK’S CORNER BOOK PRIZE Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s A Kind of Freedom, published by Counterpoint Press, is the winner of the sixth annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the […]
6th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Announced
6th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Announced September 9, 2018 Download THE PRESS RELEASE The Crook’s Corner Book Prize, awarded annually for the best debut novel set in the American South, will be chosen this year by Tayari Jones. Her most recent novel, An American Marriage, has been widely acclaimed and is a 2018 […]
6th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced
6th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced July 17, 2018 Download THE PRESS RELEASE 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 Roadby Heather Bell Adams(Vandalia Press) The Floating Worldby […]
About the 5th Annual Book Prize Winner
About the 5th Annual Book Prize Winner 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 […]
Winner Announced for the 5th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize
January 8, 2018 DOWNLOAD THE PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kera Yonker, kerayonker@gmail.com STEPHEN O’CONNOR WINS $5000 CROOK’S CORNER BOOK PRIZE Chapel Hill, North Carolina, January 8, 2018—Stephen O’Connor’s Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings, published by Viking, has won this year’s Crook’s Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the American South. […]
5th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Announced
September 9, 2018 Download THE PRESS RELEASE Three wildly various books by emerging writers will vie for the fifth Crook’s Corner Book Prize, awarded each year to the best debut novel set in the American South. This year’s Shortlist for the $5000 prize includes books featuring: a whip-smart eleven-year-old navigating grief in a distinctly quirky […]
5th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced
July 16, 2017 DOWNLOAD THE PRESS RELEASE 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 Fieldby Hannah Gersen(William Morrow Paperbacks) Rabbit Cakeby Annie Hartnett(Tin House Books) Love Give Us […]
2022 Virtual Announcement Party
2022 Virtual Announcement Party Join us (virtually) for the announcement of the next winner of the Crook’s Corner Book Prize! The Chapel Hill Public Library and Flyleaf Books have generously offered to co-host this event with us on Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 and our judge Ron Rash will be joining us to chat with the […]