The Winners
Grand Prize
They Stay by Claire Fraise
Early Readers/Children’s Picture Books
FIRST PLACE
Read Island by Nicole Magistro
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Forever Home by Cathy Stenquist
Mrs. R. Snugglesworth, Attorney-at-Law by Amy Flanagan Nature Parade by Nikki Samuels
Siege of Herons: Collective Nouns Alphabetically by Ramona Wildeman
The Three Little Pigs and the Rocket Project by Lynne Marie
Genre Fiction
FIRST PLACE
Home News: A Novel of 1928 by JD Solomon
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Beneath the Maize by Stephen Goldhahn
Coup de Grâce by Paul Centeno
Crew of Exiles by Neal Holtschulte
Dragon Seer: Deathborne by S. Kay Lanphear
I Fail at the Afterlife by Anni Sezate
In the Shadow of a Hoax by Maci Aurora
Sins of the Lines by Sharhonda Exantus Swimming in the Rainbow by Rebecca Lochlann The Long Road Back to You by Buck Turner
Inspirational/Self-Help
FIRST PLACE
Small Talk Rules: 65 Lessons I Learned From the Greatest Communicators by Gregory Peart
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Heavenly Headbutts: Reflections of Hope About Cats and Eternity by Allia Zobel Nolan
Your Body Is Your Weapon: The Little Self-Defense Handbook by I. Buenaventura
Mainstream/Literary Fiction
FIRST PLACE
Little Bird & The Tiger by Ellis Amdur
HONORABLE MENTIONS
A Portion of Malice: Ages of Malice, Book I by Lloyd Jeffries House on Fire by D. Liebhart
Mask of Dreams by Leigh Grant
The Hoffman Affairs by Beth Schorr Jaffe
Willow’s Run by Robert Bockstael
Memoir/Life Stories
FIRST PLACE
Travels With My Grief by Susan Bloch
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Days of Wonder by Bill Vossler
Down on Court Five: Lessons Late in Life by Vivian Witkind Melissa Come Back by Patrice Keet & Melissa LaHommedieu Mom’s Search for Meaning: Grief and Growth After Child Loss by Melissa M. Monroe
Standing in the Wings: My Life on (and Mostly Just Off) Stage by Fred Krohn
Middle-Grade/Young Adult
FIRST PLACE
@nervesofsteel by Lyn Fairchild Hawks
HONORABLE MENTION
The Red Rebel Extravaganza by Angela Kay
Nonfiction/Reference
FIRST PLACE
The Sustainability Revolutionists: Heroes and Hope for Our Planet’s Future by Lucia Athens
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Cannabis Lullaby by David Sharp
Rehabit Your Life: A Doctor’s Notebook to Navigating Health & Wellbeing by PL Bandy
The Borinqueneers: A Visual History of the 65th Infantry Regiment by Noemi Figueroa Soulet
Poetry
FIRST PLACE
Canon Fodder by Jay Sizemore
HONORABLE MENTION
Greatness in It All by Lauren Carden