July 21, 2020
The Crook’s Corner Book Prize Foundation announces its annual Longlist for best debut novel set in the American South. Now in its Eighth Year, the $5,000 prize will be presented in January 2021. The Longlist includes:

Watershed
by Mark Barr
(Hub City Press)

The Gulf
by Belle Boggs
(Graywolf Press)

The Gone Dead
by Chanelle Benz
(Ecco/HarperCollins)

Shiner
by Amy Jo Burns
(Riverhead Books)

As a River
by Sion Dayson
(Jaded Ibis Press)

Confessions of an Innocent Man
by David R. Dow
(Dutton, Penguin Random House)

Boys Of Alabama
by Genevieve Hudson
(Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton & Co.)

Sugar Run
by Mesha Maren
(Algonquin Books)

Valentine
by Elizabeth Wetmore
(HarperCollins)