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The Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards) came out in June. The Independent Spirit Award – one of seven 2022 IPPY Outstanding Books - went to The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton by Neal Hutcheson. The two are pictured above. Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson has won the Working Class Studies Tillie Olsen Award for 2022. Lambda Literary has announced that Silas House is one of two winners of the 2022 Jim Duggins, PhD, Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Dedicated to the memory of author and journalist Jim Duggins, this prize honors LGBTQ-identified authors who have published multiple novels. A Little Bit Country...

Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis by Beth Macy, pictured above, is on Esquire magazine’s list of the 20 most anticipated books for the Summer of 2022. It is due for release on August 16th.  It also makes Boston.com’s list of 24 Books You Should Read This Summer According to Local Experts. And Book Riot’s  What’s the Buzz?: 40 of the Best Summer Reads for 2022. It also made Powell’s Book Preview for August. The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michelle Richardson was #13 on the New York Times Best-Seller list for May 22 in...

Needle Work by Julia Watts is one of 9 finalists in YA Fiction for Foreword Indie. Lock Her Up by Tina Parker was one of eleven finalists for Eric Hoffer’s 2022 Medal Provocateur that recognizes the “best on the frontier of poetry – the experimental, the innovative, the daring and stunning, the impromptu in technique and voice.” The Girl Singer by Marianne Worthington was a finalist for the 2022 Montaigne Medal given to “thought-provoking books. These are books that either illuminate, progress, or redirect thought.” Where I Can’t Follow by Ashley Blooms has been named one of 12 Spring Reading...

Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns by William H. Turner – pictured above - won the  Weatherford Award in non-fiction given by the Appalachian Studies Association and Berea College.  My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson won  for fiction, and The Girl Singer by Marianne Worthington won for poetry. Runner-up in nonfiction is Remaking Appalachia: Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law by Nicholas F. Stump. In fiction they are Call it Horses by Jessie van Eerden and Pop by Robert Gipe. In poetry they are Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson and  Back to the Light by George Ella Lyon. My...

PERFECT BLACK by Crystal Wilkinson – pictured above - has won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry – presented at their 53rd Annual Image Award ceremony. PERFECT BLACK also made Elle magazine's list of 38 Black History Books to read this year. George Ella Lyon was the guest of honor at the bimonthly series from the Library of Congress’s podcast, “The Poet and the Poem,” in the middle of February. A TWILIGHT REEL by Michael Amos Cody is the winner in the short Story category of the Feathered Quill Book Award. WHERE I CAN’T FOLLOW by...