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Submission Guide

About Georgia Writers

2024 Nominees

2023 Winners & Finalists

History

Previous Nominees

Previous Winners

Judges' Statements

Lifetime Achievement

Posthumous Lifetime Achievement

Submission Guide

About Georgia Writers

2024 Nominees

2023 Winners & Finalists

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Posthumous Lifetime Achievement

Georgia Author of theYear Awards

2024 Nominees

Biography

The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker by Mark Beaver

Fortune and Folly by Sara A. H. Butler

Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan by Johnny Smith

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

Through Her Eyes - One Family's Journey From Enslavement To The Great Migration by Dr. Arthur Vaughn

Unstoppable: A Story of Love, Faith, and the Power Couple Who Ignited the College Sports Broadcasting Boom by George Hirthler

Children’s Books

Bentley's Fantabulous Idea by Miki Taylor and Illustrated by Eunhye Shin

Danny Doesn't Quit by Dana Reid and Illustrated by Mike Motz

Elodie Meets Guber the Ghost by P. E. Waring and Illustrated by Matea Anic

When a Monster Dreams Written and Illustrated by Catherine Gayle

You So Black by Theresa Tha Songbird Wilson and Illustrated by London Ladd

Detective/Mystery and Science Fiction

Always Agnes by Michael Dubrow

Crypto: A John Wesley O'Toole Novel by William Rawlings

Double Trouble by Paul Sinor

False Claims by Katherine Nichols

LeAnn and the Clean Man by Jeff Shaw

Murder at the Book Fair by Lily Charles

Murder in Drury Lane by Vanessa Riley

Never Back Down by Christopher Swann

Pawprints, Prose & Murder by Kathy Manos Penn

Saint Simons Island: A Stella Bankwell Mystery by Ronda Rich

Self Rescue by Phillip Price

Skeleton in the Art Closet by Gail Karwoski

Trust the Terrier: A Coral Shores Veterinary Mystery by DL Mitchell

First Novel

Abounding Hope by Cindy Kay Stewart

All Is Now Lost by Laura Smith

Beneath the Smiling Moon by Devon Valdes

Breach of Trust by Helen Bradley

The Bystanders by Dawn Major

Even A Shepherd by Ronnie Jowers

Islands of Women by Eileen O'Hara

Nine Ways to Die: An Enneagram Murder Mystery by Kate Hallock

Red Clay Suzie by Jeffrey Dale Lofton

School of Sleuths by Matt Aiken

SECRETS OF ASH by Josh Green

Songs of Lost Things: Sonata for the Sun by Monica McCollough

South of Happily by Gaby Anderson

Through the Veneer of Time by Vera Bell

History

Dynamic Design by Virginia Gardener Troy

Georgia Covered Bridges by Lisa Russell

The Georgia's Farmer's Strike by Lee Lancaster

The Last Laird of Sapelo by Mike Brown

Milledgeville's Sesquicentennial Murders by Susan Lindsley

Oconaluftee: The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley by Elizabeth Giddens

Poor Atlanta: Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development by LeeAnn Lands

Inspirational

A Generous Beckoning: Accepting God's Invitation to a More Fulfilling Life by Peter Wallace

Captured by Love: Inspiring True Romance Stories of Vietnam POWs by Lee Ellis

Don't Look, Ethel! by Nicholas Doster

Hello Anxiety My Old Friend: Harness Your Invisible Superpower by Natalie Kohlhaas

Keep Moving Forward: An Interactive Survival Guide for Overcoming & Thriving by Melony Brown

Loving Me: After Abuse by Angela Williams

Moving Beyond: Journeying Through Life's Changes by Millicent Flake

Literary Fiction and Short Story Collections

A Last Serenade for Billy Bonney by Mark Warren

Apparitions by Sybil Baker

The Art of Her Life by Cynthia Newberry Martin

Bengal Hound by Rahad Abir, Edited by Kimberley Lim

Broken Things by Lori Duff

End Times by John Williams

Idioms by John Doriot

Legacy of Honor-The Air Warrior by Larry Freeland

Look Away No More by Carol Owens Campbell

Love Like This by Cynthia Newberry Martin

The Middle Daughter by Chika Unigwe

One Blood by Denene Millner

Queen of Exiles by Vanessa Riley

Romance World by Tamar Cantwell

The Say So by Julia Franks

Seven Islands of the Ocmulgee: River Stories by Gordon Johnston

So Long, Bobby by Lillah Lawson

Through the Dark by Brandon Daily

Until We Meet Again: The Life of Jennie Raffield Williams by Gillian Grable

*Poetry Full Length Book

The Anxiety Workbook by Christina Olson

Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen

Kitchen Apocrypha by Gregory Emilio

Mountain Amnesia by Gale Thompson

Old Gods: Poems by Clifford Brooks

One Thousand Sheets of Rice Paper: Poems by Kevin Cantwell

The Savior and the Shadow Queen: A Fantastical Tale Told Through Sequential Poems by Kimberly McAfee

Slowly, I Grow by John Doriot

Tender Headed by Olatunde Osinaike

Unusually Grand Ideas by James May

Where "Here" Is Hard to Say: Poems by Gordon Johnston

With Access to Tools by Dana Wildsmith

*Romance

A Laird without a Past by Jeanine Englert

A Tryst in Paris by Anne Armistead

The Case of the Forgotten Fragonard by Marilyn Baron

Christmas with a Cowboy by Pam Mantovani

Letter Late Than Never by Lauren Connolly

Once Upon A Christmas Family by Susan Carlisle

Reunited with the Children's Doc by Susan Carlisle

Second Chance for the Heart Doctor by Susan Carlisle

Sight Beyond the Sun by Melody Johnson

Wedding Date with Her Best Friend by Susan Carlisle

*Specialty Book

Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black

Celebrating Backyard Birds by Robert Meyers

Egg Rolls & Sweet Tea: Asian Inspired, Southern Style by Natalie Keng

Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology by Julie E. Bloemeke

WHITETAIL SECRETS: Bachelor Life by Susan Lindsley

Why I Wrote This Poem by William Walsh

Zucchini Love by Cynthia Graubart

Young Adult

The 19 of Greene by Tony Barnhart

Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker

Blueberrians at the Gate by Duane Sohl

In Search of the Painted Bunting by Beverly Varnado

Into the Light by Mark Oshiro

Just Gus by McCall Hoyle

Sabotage by Sherrilyn McQueen

Underdog City by Chris Negron

Memoir

Be Prepared, We Are All Going To Die by B Jane Jones

The Book I Always Promised by Barbara Gomes Serafino

From Sorrows to Sapphires: Freedom from the Shame of Child Sexual Abuse by Angela Williams

How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key

The Killing Closet by V.L. Brunskill

More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew by John Blake

Swimming for Our Lives: A Naval Academy Graduate's Stories of an Adventurous Life by Jim Paulk

The Unfettered Urologist by Martha Boone

The Way from Me to Us by Mike Coleman

Who Turned Up the Silence by Andy Turner

The Wisdom of Winter: Reflections from the Journey by Jackie K. Cooper

*Poetry Chapbook

AmerAsian: My Journey to Becoming Whole as a Mixed Korean-American by Kimberly McAfee

Celine: An Elegy by C.W. Bryan

Cold Remembered: and other poems by David R. Altman

Come Back for a Little Bit by Elle Warren

LIFE OF THE MIND by Julia Knowlton

The Miriam Poems by Eleanor Wolfe Hoomes