July 21st, 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 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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