Crook’s Corner Book Prize Submission Deadline Extended

March 29, 2020 By

March 31, 2020

Submissions are now open for next year’s Prize. Due to difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, the submission deadline has been extended to June 1, 2020. For details on how to submit, please visit our Submission Guidelines.

Crook's Corner Book Prize event at Chapel Hill Public Library 1/7/2020 at 7pm

Chapel Hill Library panel discussion January 8, 2019

"New South, New Voices: Diverse Authors, Fresh Perspectives."

Last year's CCBP winner, Margaret W. Sexton visited Chapel Hill to sign her new book at Flyleaf Books. November 12th, 2019

Reader's party September 26th, 2019

Announcement party January 7, 2019

Thanks to The Franklin Hotel for providing a room for our winner, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton.

Readers' Party, September 6, 2018

Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, Monique Truong came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1975. The recipient of many literary awards, she is also an intellectual property attorney.

Her first novel, The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), was a national bestseller and the recipient of, among others, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, Bard Fiction Prize, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Fellowship, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles National Literary Award, Association for Asian American Studies Poetry/Prose Award, and an Asian American Literary Award.

More about Monique Truong