Dr. Linda I. Meyers Wins the $10,000 Grand Prize in Our Tenth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its tenth annual North Street Book Prize competition. Dr. Linda I. Meyers of New York, New York won the Grand Prize and $10,000 for her literary memoir-in-essays, The Tell. Dr. Meyers also received a marketing analysis and one-hour phone consultation with Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a $500 credit at BookBaby, three months of Plus service (a $207 value) and a $250 account credit from Book Award Pro, a book cover consultation from Laura Duffy Design (a $1,100 value), and 3 free ads in the Winning Writers newsletter (a $525 value).
These category winners received $1,000 each:
- Jeff Shelton of Santa Barbara, California won First Prize in the Art Book category for The Fig District: Some Buildings in Downtown Santa Barbara, a compendium of colorful patterns, photographs, and blueprints from eight whimsical multi-use buildings that his architecture firm designed in a historic California neighborhood.
- Trevor Ostfeld of Tenafly, New Jersey and Iryna Chernyak of Warsaw, Poland won First Prize in Children's Picture Book for their co-authored story Finding Messi: The Miracle Cat from Kyiv, which re-creates the true story of Iryna's reunion with her cat after her family fled from Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
- Bryan Wiggins of Cape Elizabeth, Maine won First Prize in Genre Fiction for his medical thriller The Corpse Bloom. Written with expert consultation from neurosurgeon Dr. Lee Thibodeau, this novel plunges a Boston transplant surgeon into high-stakes ethical dilemmas involving colonialism, unequal access to healthcare, and murder in rural Mexico.
- Sven Siekmann of Sonoma, California won First Prize in Graphic Novel & Memoir for Time Zones, which dramatizes his family's attempted escape from East Germany in 1978, his parents' capture and imprisonment, and their reunion several years later in West Germany.
- Michael Demaray of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania won First Prize in Mainstream/Literary Fiction for The Faller, a stark but redemptive coming-of-age novella about an orphaned 12-year-old boy in a rural logging community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
- Rob Mermin of Montpelier, Vermont won First Prize in Creative Nonfiction & Memoir for Circle of Sawdust: A Circus Memoir of Mud, Myth, Mirth, Mayhem, and Magic, a rollicking six-decade journey from his early life as a European circus clown through his founding of Circus Smirkus, a youth circus based in Vermont.
- Angelino Donnachaidh of Osaka, Japan won First Prize in Middle Grade for Tamiu: A Cat's Tale, a wise and winsome fable about a young wildcat at the dawn of human civilization who visits different animal societies to see how they balance freedom with security.
- Stephen C. Pollock of Mebane, North Carolina won First Prize in Poetry for Exits, an elegant poetry collection about mortality, with a supple formal inventiveness and wordplay.
In addition to cash prizes, the category winners received a marketing analysis and one-hour phone consultation with Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a $500 credit at BookBaby, three months of Plus service from Book Award Pro (a $207 value), design for a custom merchandise item based on the winner's book cover from Laura Duffy Design, and one free ad in the Winning Writers newsletter (a $175 value); the winning children's picture book author also received a phone consultation from April Cox at Self-Publishing Made Simple (a $289 value) and access to Authorpreneur Summit sessions (an $89 value). We received 1,930 entries from around the world. Final judge Jendi Reiter was assisted by Annie Mydla, Sarah Halper, and Lauren Singer. Read about the winning entries. Read about the competition.
Source: https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/contest-archives/north-street-book-prize-2024
Published: February 15, 2025
