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Crook’s Corner Book Prize 8th Annual Longlist Announced

July 10, 2020 By

July 21st, 2020

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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:


Mostly Dead Things
by Kristen Arnett
(Tin House Books)


Watershed
by  Mark Barr
(Hub City 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)


In West Mills

by De’shawn Charles Winslow

(Bloomsbury Publishing)

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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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Atlas of Reds and Blues

by Devi S. Laskar
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Announcement party January 6, 2020

Winner Devi Laskar with Crook’s Corner restaurant owners Shannon Healy and Gary Crunkleton on either side

left to right, Judge Charles Frazier, author Daniel Wallace, author (our first Crook’s Corner Book Prize winner in 2014) Wiley Cash

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