Winners to be Announced at a Special
Ceremony in New York City on Wednesday, March 6
Prize Pool for Winning Writers and Finalists
is More Than $100,000 with Winners Receiving a Year of Promotion
from Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world’s largest
retail bookseller, today announced the six finalists for its
prestigious 2018 Discover Awards.
The Discover Great New Writers program, which celebrated its
25th anniversary in 2015, recognizes great fiction and nonfiction
books from authors at the start of their careers. Since its debut,
the program has introduced readers to nearly 1,900 extraordinary
literary talents, many of whom have gone on to become household
names, including Matthew Desmond, Anthony Doerr, Elizabeth
Gilbert, Zadie Smith, Cheryl Strayed, Colson Whitehead and many
more.
The six winners of the Discover Great New Writers Awards will
share a cash prize totaling $105,000 and will be announced on
Wednesday, March 6, at a private awards ceremony in New York City.
The top winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, will
receive a $30,000 prize and a full year of promotion from Barnes
& Noble. Second-place finalists will receive $15,000 each,
and third-place finalists $7,500 each.
The finalists for the 2018 Discover Great New Writers Awards
are:
Fiction:
Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth (Harper)
– A beautifully written, classic story of brothers and revenge,
injustice and honor, set in 1880s Australia.
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (SJP for
Hogarth) –At once intimate and epic, this is an unforgettable
story of family and identity, past and present, choices and
consequences, home and the outside world.
There There by Tommy Orange (Knopf) –Tommy Orange
writes about the lives of Urban Native Americans with force and
velocity, digging deep into narratives that balance between painful
and profound.
Nonfiction:
American Prison by Shane Bauer (Penguin Press) – A
ground-breaking inside investigation into the private prison
industry and the forces that drive it, told by a journalist who was
legitimately hired under his own name with no background check.
Educated by Tara Westover (Random House) – A
searing story of growing up off the grid, which becomes an
inspirational story of a young woman who saves her own life through
her love of books and learning.
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (Scribner)
– An insightful, fearless, and often very funny story of
weight, identity, art, friendship, and family that explores what a
lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a
black family, and a nation.
Books by the finalists can be purchased at all Barnes &
Noble stores nationwide and online at www.bn.com/discover.
The Judges
Two panels of distinguished judges selected the finalists and
will also select the winners.
Serving as this year’s fiction judges are:
Paulette Jiles is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. She is
the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the novels Enemy Women, Stormy
Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island, and News of the
World. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, TX.
Helen Simonson is the New York
Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last
Stand (a 2010 Discover Great New Writers selection)
and The Summer Before the War. She was born in England and
spent her teenage years in a small village near Rye, in East
Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics with an MFA
from Stony Brook Southampton, she is a former travel advertising
executive who has lived in America for the last three decades.
Jess Walter is the author of eight books, including the
#1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins, the National Book
Award finalist The Zero, the Edgar Award-winning Citizen Vince, and
the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poet. His
work has been published in 32 languages and his short fiction has
won a Pushcart Prize and appeared three times in The Best American
Short Stories yearly anthology. He lives in Spokane, Washington,
with his family.
This year’s nonfiction judges are:
Mira Jacob is the author of the graphic memoir Good Talk,
forthcoming from One World/Random House in March 2019. Her
acclaimed debut novel The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing was also a
2014 selection of the Discover Great New Writers program. Her
recent work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Vogue,
and BuzzFeed among other outlets.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is a journalist who is best known
for her 2003 nonfiction book Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble,
and Coming of Age in the Bronx. The recipient of a MacArthur
Fellowship among many other awards and fellowships, she will be the
Elias Ghanem Chair at the Black Mountain Institute of the
University of Nevada Las Vegas starting in February 2019.
Beth Macy is the author of the widely-acclaimed and
bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man. Based in Roanoke,
Virginia for three decades, her reporting has won more than a dozen
national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at
Harvard.
Books by the judges can be purchased at all Barnes & Noble
stores nationwide and online at www.bn.com/discover.
The Discover Awards
Since 1990, the Discover Great New Writers program has connected
readers with incredible, unforgettable stories which they may have
otherwise missed. In addition to helping customers find their next
great read, the program has helped many emerging authors find their
audience.
The Discover program's selection committee is comprised of
Barnes & Noble booksellers from across the company and around
the country. They are voracious readers who meet weekly throughout
the year to look for compelling voices, extraordinary writing and
indelible stories from literary talents at the start of their
careers.
Fifty-two books were handpicked for the program in 2018 from the
more than 1,000 submissions from publishers of all sizes, and from
these, the judges select the shortlist and the winners of the
Discover Awards in 2018.
Past winners of the annual Discover Great New Writers Award
include: Patty Yumi Cottrell for Sorry to Disrupt the Peace and
Jessica Bruder for Nomadland (both 2017); Matthew Desmond for
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City and Abby Geni for
The Lightkeepers (both 2016); Mia Alvar for In the Country: Stories
and Jill Leovy for Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
(both 2015); Evie Wyld for All the Birds, Singing (2014); Anthony
Marra for A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Justin St. Germain
for Son of a Gun (both 2013); Cheryl Strayed for Wild and Amanda
Coplin for The Orchardist (both 2012); Joshua Ferris for Then We
Came to the End (2007); Ben Fountain for Brief Encounters with Che
Guevara (2006); Alison Smith for Name All the Animals (2004);
Anthony Doerr for The Shell Collector (2002); Hampton Sides for
Ghost Soldiers (2001); Elizabeth McCracken for The Giant’s House
(1996); and Chang-Rae Lee for Native Speaker (1995).
For more information on the Barnes & Noble Discover Great
New Writers program, customers should visit www.bn.com/discover or
ask one of the knowledgeable booksellers at any Barnes & Noble
store nationwide.
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