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2024 AWP Award Series Finalists

Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction

WOULD YOU GIVE UP ARMS FOR WINGS? A STORY INSPIRED BY THE VISIONARY LIFE AND WRITINGS OF PAULUS BERENSOHN by S. Portico Bowman
THE MEAN WORLD: A MEMOIR by Lia Greenwell
THEY SAID I COULDN’T HAVE A LOVE LIFE by Anne Kaier
TWICE BORN: HOW MARK TWAIN HELPED ME FIND MY FATHER by Hester Kaplan
HOW CAN THERE BE NOW IF THERE WAS NO THEN by Jesse Lee Kercheval
THE ONLY THING MISSING IS SOMETHING by Susan McCarty
AMERICAN EYES by Heather Phillips
(UN) MOTHER (ED) / (UN) TONGUE (D) by Lee Ann Roripaugh
MILKSHAKE: ABUNDANCE AND LOSS IN AMERICA’S DAIRYLAND by Garbo Wedde
THE TROUBLE WITH LOVING POETS AND OTHER ESSAYS ON FAILURE by Elizabeth Zaleski

James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel

THE ASTERISMS by Robert Glick
FEATHER & SEL by Roger Hart
REVEAL! by Tom McAllister
PROOF OF GIANTS by K. T. Peterson
THE ANIMATRONIC GEESE OF MICHIANA by Yelizaveta Renfro
SOUL IN THE FOLD, A NOVEL OF ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION by Xavier Richardson
TO THE LASTING HOUSE by Riley Rockford
AND THE FLOODS CAME UP by Angie Romines
TWINLESS TWIN by Dean Marshall Tuck
THE HANDBOOK FOR DOOMSCROLLING by Wendy Wimmer

Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

DRINK THIS BLUE AIR by John Glowney
DESIGNATED WILDERNESS by Vincent Hiscock
OCULUS by James McCorkle
CRUDE by Nicholas Pierce
BARLEY CHILD by Greg Rappleye
GIRLS IN THE DESERT by Linda Ravenswood
WHITE CAMELLIAS by Joyce Schmid
NO RHODODENDRON by Samyak Shertok
OTHER THINGS I CAN’T REMEMBER by Jeff Whitney
STILL LIFE, WITH PHILOSOPHERS by George Young

Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction

LAKE SONG by Lesley Bannatyne
KAINTUCK STORIES by Artie Bates
SMALL STORIES by Daphne Chemutai Kiplagat
MONSTERS HERE AND THERE: STORIES by Kate Fitzgerald
A SMALL BUT PERFECT HAPPINESS by Edward Hamlin
HAR MAR SUPERSTAR by Hilal Isler
WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU DONE? by Diane Lefer
HOLE BAG by Jessica Lee Richardson
BAD BABIES by Keya Mitra
THE RIVER ALWAYS RUNS DOWNHILL by Brooke Nelson