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Press Release: “8th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Winner Announced”

Press Release: “8th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Announced”

Press Release: “8th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced”

Press Release: “Winner Announced for the 7th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize”

Press Release: “7th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Announced”

Press Release: “7th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced”

Press Release: “Winner Announced for the 6th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize”

CHARLOTTE OBSERVER: “Big changes ahead for NC’s beloved – and iconic – restaurant, Crook’s Corner” by Kathleen Purvis and Drew Jackson

NEWS AND OBSERVER: “Meet the new chef of Crook’s Corner, the third in the storied restaurant’s history” by Drew Jackson and Kathleen Purvis

FOOD & WINE: “Crook’s Corner, a Southern Institution, Embarks on a New Era”

Press Release:“Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Announced”

Press Release:“Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced”

Press Release:“Winner Announced for the 5th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize”

Press Release:“5th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Announced”

Press Release:“Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced”

Press Release:“Winner Announced For Fourth Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize”

Press Release:“Announcing the Winner of the Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Display Contest”

Press Release:“ATTN Booksellers: Crook’s Corner Book Prize Display Contest—Deadline Nov. 15”

Press Release:“Announcing the Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Display Contest!”

Press Release:“Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Announced; Prize Increased To $5000”

Press Release:“Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced; Prize Increased To $5000”

Press Release:“For Its Fourth Anniversary The Crook’s Corner Book Prize Raises Award Five Fold To $5000”

Press Release:“Winner Announced For Third Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize”

Press Release:“Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Announced November 2, 2015”

Press Release:“Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced July 8, 2015″

Press Release:“Winner Announced For Second Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize”

Press Release:“Crook’s Corner Book Prize Shortlist Announced November 28, 2014”

Press Release: “Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced August 8, 2014”

2015 Judge announced: Following in the footsteps of Jill McCorkle and Randall Kenan, novelist Lee Smith will be the judge for the third annual prize.

Thanks to the Siena Hotel in Chapel Hill, NC for providing a room for 2013 Crook’s Corner Book Prize winner Wiley Cash when he was in town to receive his award.

Press Release: January 7, 2014: “Winner Announced For First Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize”

INDEPENDENT WEEKLY: “WILEY CASH WINS CROOK’S CORNER BOOK PRIZE” by Jill Warren Lucas http://www.indyweek.com/BigBite/archives/2014/01/07/cash-wiley-wins-first-crooks-corner-book-prize

SOUTHERN FOODWAYS ALLIANCE: “DIRECTOR’S CUT: CROOK’S CORNER BOOK PRIZE LONG LIST ANNOUNCED” by John T. Edge http://www.southernfoodways.org/crooks-corner-book-prize-long-list-announced/

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: “SOUTHERN RESTAURANT SERVES UP BOOK PRIZE” by Paige Crutcher
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/58700-southern-restaurant-serves-up-book-prize.html

Press Release: November 20, 2013: “First Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize (For an Exceptional Debut Novel, Set in the South) Names Final Four”

Press Release:  August 14, 2013: “Crook’s Corner Longlist of Exceptional Debut Novels Set in the South”

Shelf Awareness:  “Reservations Open: Crook’s Corner Book Prize”: http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1957#m19438

Oxford American: “The Habit of Eating”: http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2013/jan/23/habit-eating-crooks-corner-book-prize/

Chapel Hill Magazine: “Crook’s Corner Book Prize Launch Party”: http://www.chapelhillmagazine.com/downloads/slideshows/crooks-corner-book-prize-launch-party/

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The 2021 Book Prize Winner

As a River
by Sion Dayson
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LIBRARY PANEL

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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The 8th Annual Shortlist

Shortlist Announced!
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The 2020 Book Prize Winner

Atlas of Reds and Blues

by Devi S. Laskar
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2020 Announcement Party

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

The 7th Annual Longlist

Longlist Announced!
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