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Crooks Corner Book Prize 11th Annual Longlist Announced

Press Release:11th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Winner Announced” 

Press Release:Crook’s Corner Book Prize 11th Annual Shortlist Announced

Press Release:11th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced

Press Release: “10th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Winner Announced

Press Release: “Crook’s Corner Book Prize Foundation Announces 10th Annual Shortlist

Press Release: “10th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced”

Indy Week: “Crook’s Corner May Be Closed, But It’s Endearing Prize…Lives On

Press Release: “9th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Winner Announced”

Press Release: “9th Annual Crook’s Corner Prize Shortlist Announced”

Press Release: “9th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced”

THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Crook’s Corner, a Landmark North Carolina Restaurant, Has Closed” by Brett Anderson

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”

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/

 

11TH ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE WINNER

The Old Place
by Bobby Finger
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11th Annual Announcement Party

2024 Announcement Party at The Crunkleton— Winner Bobby Finger with this year’s judge Wiley Cash and CCBP president Anna Hayes

11th Annual Readers' Party

Author Jill McCorkle and Algonquin Books co-founder Shannon Ravenel join CCBP Readers attending this year’s Thank You party.

10th Annual Virtual Announcement Party

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HOSTED BY

10TH ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE WINNER

Shadows of Pecan Hollow
by Caroline Frost
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THE 10TH ANNUAL SHORTLIST

THE 9TH ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE WINNER

Things We Lost to the Water
by Eric Nguyen
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HOSTED BY

THE 10TH ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE JUDGE

Ben Fountain was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in eastern North Carolina. His most recent book is Beautiful Country Burn Again, a narrative, with history, of the 2016 presidential election. He is also the author of the novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, which was adapted for film by three-time Oscar winner Ang Lee, and the short story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara.
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THE 2021 BOOK PRIZE WINNER

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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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THE 2020 BOOK PRIZE WINNER

Atlas of Reds and Blues

by Devi S. Laskar
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