J.R. Weber Wins Our Grand Prize in our Fifth Annual North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its fifth annual North Street Book Prize competition for self-published books. J.R. Weber of Ewa Beach, Hawaii won the Grand Prize and $3,000 for his verse-drama Lay of the Land. Six category winners received $1,000 each:
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Jeanette Stickel of Mendocino, California won First Prize in the Children's Picture Book category for Mama's Needle, a gentle tribute to an African-American mother's imaginative artistry expressed through quilting.
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Dmitri Jackson of Ballwin, Missouri won First Prize in Graphic Narrative for Blackwax Boulevard, which collects the first five years of his funny and poignant webcomic about a struggling inner-city record store and the misfits who call it home.
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Katy McKinney of Trout Lake, Washington won First Prize in Poetry for Fireproofing the Woods, a lyrical and environmentally conscious collection that connects the fragility of our marvelous planet to her beloved sister's death from cancer.
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Li Mo of Cambridge, Massachusetts won First Prize in Creative Nonfiction for Spirit Bridges, an imagistic memoir that depicts a childhood indelibly marked by the 1949 fall of Shanghai to the Communists, her coming of age in the American counterculture of the 1960s-70s, and a midlife re-integration of herself through the visual and performing arts.
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Suanne Laqueur of Somers, New York won First Prize in Genre Fiction for An Exaltation of Larks, an ambitious family saga spanning world events from the 1973 CIA-backed coup in Chile to the aftermath of September 11, 2001.
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Bob Sylva of Sacramento, California won First Prize in Literary Fiction for The King of Karaoke, a magical-realism-tinged story collection that celebrates the resilience and creativity of his city's diverse working class.
All of the above winners also received services and benefits from Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of The Frugal Book Promoter, and BookBaby. $10,750 was awarded in all. We received 1,657 entries from around the world. Jendi Reiter and Ellen LaFleche judged, assisted by Annie Keithline, Jim DuBois, and Lauren Singer. Read the complete release. Read about the winning entries.
Published: February 15, 2020
