Submissions: Open | Deadline May 15, 2024

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Crooks Corner Book Prize 11th Annual Longlist Announced

How To Complete the Submission Process

If payment was made via PayPal:

  • Mail two copies of the submitted book along with:
    • Printed submission form (a link to download your form will be in the email confirmation from Crook’s Corner Book Prize)
    • Proof of online payment (a receipt will be sent separately by PayPal)

If payment will be sent via mail

  • Mail two copies of the submitted book along with:
    • A check for the $35 entry fee
    • Printed submission form (a link to download your form will be in the email confirmation from Crook’s Corner Book Prize)

PLEASE NOTE:

Submissions must be postmarked or submitted online on or before the May 15 deadline.

There will be no refunds or return of books, regardless of eligibility or ineligibility.

For more information contact contact us here.

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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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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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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