The 2022 Literary Awards Finalists and Winners
Thank you all for participating in the 2022 Awards Program and making it a success! On this page we’ll be listing the Long List of finalists, a Short List, and the Winner’s Circle. Follow us on social media for updates!
Update 10/28/22: Congratulations to the winners!
2022 Literary Awards Program Winners:
Greyhounds, by Emma Smith-Stevens
The Good Suicide, by Rachel Zimmerman
Crone-ish, by Kim McLarin
The Short List:
Hairy Govinda and Other Stories, by Kathy Anderson
Lifted, by Nathan Alexander Moore
Eat Your Damn Vegetables, by Ari Phillips
Flyover Girls, by Julie Benesh
Diary of a Mute Girl, by Khanh Ha
How We Are Unmade, by Lucy Zhang
That Woman: A Collection of Stories, by Maria Brandt
What Remains After a Fire, by Kanza Javed
Crone-ish, by Kim McLarin
Bird, by Marian Palaia
The Worst Kind of Girl, by Susan Rukeyser
The Taste of Names, by Masha Shukovich
Homelands, by Robert Williams
Chasing Squirrels, Ghosts, and Girls: A Memoir in Essays, by Lori Horvitz
Searching for Reverence, by Annie Lampman
My Mother in Havana, by Rebe Huntman
Greyhounds, by Emma Smith-Stevens
Mojave, by Joe Vastano
Time, by Lianne O’Hara
The Good Suicide, by Rachel Zimmerman
Cadillac, Oklahoma, by Louise Smith
The Paper Anniversary, by Dinah Cox
Insignificant Others, by Mark Connelly
Red, by Angela Dawson
Bridgeport Nowhere, by Scott May
Shabbat Shalom, Mary Magdalene!, by Martha Schulman
Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres, by Charles Jensen
The Long List:
Searching for Reverence, by Annie Lampman
Accidents of a Veronica and Other Stories, by Toni Margarita Plummer
Chasing Squirrels, Ghosts, and Girls: A Memoir in Essays, by Lori Horvitz
Cadillac, Oklahoma, by Louise Smith
The Paper Anniversary, by Dinah Cox
Homelands, by Robert Williams
The Taste of Names, by Masha Shukovich
The Sleepers, by Sydney Raeburn-Power
Time, by Lianne O’Hara
Of the Long Night Only the Stars Remain, by Claudia Castro Luna
The Worst Kind of Girl, by Susan Rukeyser
Mojave, by Joe Vastano
Bird, by Marian Palaia
Greyhounds, by Emma Smith-Stevens
Wild Hearts Don’t Break, by Marjorie Robertson
Of Fathers & Gods, by Jim Roberts
My Mother in Havana, by Rebe Huntman
Insignificant Others, by Mark Connelly
Crone-ish, by Kim McLarin
Red, by Angela Dawson
Life of the Party, by Benjamin Siegan
Bridgeport Nowhere, by Scott May
That Woman: A Collection of Stories, by Maria Brandt
The Book of Making, by Stephanie Sauer
A Home for Friendless Women, by Kelly Hill
Moving Parts: A Memoir, by Judith Padow
The Percentage of My Problems, by Katrina Grant
Dear Second Husband, by Susan Finch
Hard-Earned Rust, by Dexter Loken
Amerikaland, Danny Goodman
Devil Strip Musketeers, by Carnegie Euclid
Recto/Verso, by Liz Asch
Diary of a Mute Girl, by Khanh Ha
The Intimate Letters of the Saints, by Robert Coberly
The Goodbye Tour, by Jessica Taylor
Intricate Birds: On Solastalgia, Foot Travel, and Forgetting to Pray, by Jennifer Bullis
Adulting: Stories, by Caelyn Cobb
Loon Rangers, by James McVey
Tear Here, by Matthew Pitt
Everything That Happens Must Be Reversible, by Diane Gurman
You Were Once Wild Here, by Stephanie Vessely
The Good Suicide, by Rachel Zimmerman
Blood Ties: Stories of Love and Magic, by Shameka Erby
The Fairies at Four AM and Other Stories, by William Hawkins
Rachelle, by Rachel Kesselman
Don’t Pine for the Moonshine, by Che Sauntioga
Becoming Hungarian, by Erika Giles
How Do I Explain Myself?, Ching Ching Tan
Future Attractions, by Jenny Belardi
What You Seek is Seeking You: Stories, by Lenore Hart
Whatever is Lovely, Preserve: Stories 2015-2022, by Anne Weisgerber
The Book of Losman, by Kyle Semmel
The Strange Beautiful: Stories, by Carla Crujido
That Very Place, by Mary Ann McGuigan
Love You to Death, by Jan Stinchcomb
Sanctuary, by Ginny Fite
A World Without (Women), by Emma Burcart
Skin Tailoring, by Marina Harris
Ofelia and Norma, by Donna Miscolta
Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres, by Charles Jensen
You Stay Here, by Robert Morgan Fisher
The Stars We Once Were, by Colleen Rich
Naked Under A New Sky, by Brian Howlett
Jesus-Colored Skin, by C. Quintana
Lola and Ben, by Joan Schweighardt
My Prisoner & Other Stories, by Tyler McAndrew
Hairy Govinda and Other Stories, by Kathy Anderson
The Perfect Sister, by Erica Williams
Proles, by Barry Bergman
Behind the Blue Dolphin, by Tom Billings
The Lake’s Only Daughter, Emily Lake Hansen
She Shines Like A Diamond, by Jane Labous
Shifting the Feminine Bones: Essays, by Ashley Anderson
Lifted, by Nathan Alexander Moore
Shabbat Shalom, Mary Magdalene!, by Martha Schulman
What Remains After a Fire, by Kanza Javed
The Great Divide: A Memoir of Family, Loss, and Forces of Nature, by Gina DeMillo Wagner
Orchid Child, by Victoria Costello
Bone Horses, by Lesley Poling-Kempes
Shutdown, by Robert McKean
How We Are Unmade, by Lucy Zhang
What We Did for Molly Moore, by Wendy Oleson
Flyover Girls, by Julie Benesh
No More Time To Waste, by Redfern Barrett
Horse Show, by J. Bowers
Be White With Me, by Robert E. Hayes
Checkpoint, by Timothy Jay Smith
Sedona, by Kerry Freeman
How to Fall in Love with a Place: The Sea, My Sinkhole, and Sardinia, by Rose Spaziani
Project Miriam, by Joanna Ezekiel
Rogue Valley: Stories, by Midge Raymond
Balloon Dog, Daniel Paisner
Eat Your Damn Vegetables, by Ari Phillips
Sex With a Crocodile, by Elizabeth Fyne
Isn’t it Fun How We Shine?, by Michael Downs
The Heart of Virginia, by Haylee Reynolds
The Unfurling Frond, by Rebecca Beardsall
Threshold, by Deborah Forbes
Adult Children, by Laurence Klavan
The Great American Kidney Stone (and Other 100% Mostly True Stories), by Jonathan Danielson