Here are the 2013 Literary Awards Program finalists in the Fiction category. Judging should be complete in early October, selecting a grand prize-winner and two runner ups. For Fiction and for nonfiction, I’ll have a shortlist of 10 finalists in the next couple weeks.
As I said in my Nonfiction Finalists post yesterday, please let me know if there are any errors below. If there’s one thing I do very well, it’s make mistakes!
Here’s the list, in no particular order:
Ioanna Carlsen — A Modern Greek
Aaron Tillman — The Cross-Eyed Monkey Cabaret
Ana June — Euclid’s Daughter
Barry Maxwell — Mandala
BD Feil — The Fever of the World
Pedro Ponce — The Discovery of Dr. James Osborne Beckett
Matthew Burnside — Bestiary and Other Tales of Monsters
Scott Slater — Blood of my Blood
Cristie Coffing — Carnival Man
Aaron Tillman — The Cross-Eyed Monkey
Eliza Tudor — Mind the Gap
David Ruskin Norman — Color Jesus
Dan Moreau — A Tour of North American Ruins
D.A. Thompson — Ghost Tiger
Laine Cunningham — Break the Bow
SK Kalsi — Ghost Notes
Mary Larkin — The Heart is a Slow Learner & Other Stories
James Mathews — Among Crows
Jenny Ruden — Camp Utopia & The Forgiveness Diet
John Van Kirk — Song for Chance
Ginger Pinholster — Murmuration
Arney Leason — Muses Wild
Nambé Bent — Pojoaque & The Bomb
Erin Lynn Cook — Merging Forms
J.D. Smith — Transit
J.T. Barbarese — Random Acts of Kindness
Rebecca Givens Rolland — You’d Rather Be Tender
Sandy Maren — Otherside Gigs
Colin Gibson — Singularity
Rosalia Scalia — Sister Rafaele Heals the Sick and Other Stories
Daniel Browne — Swing State and Other Stories
Melanie J. Cordova — The Hill Spirit
Mimi Lipson — The Cloud of Unknowing
April L. Ford — The Poor Children
Corran Harrington — The River Reader
Thomas F. Sheehan — Vigilantes East
Karima Alavi — Whisper of a Bangkok Ghost
Wasique Mirza — Zero Point
Tom Noyes — Come by Here: A Novella and Stories
Frank Carden — The Prostitutes of Post Office Street
P.S. Foley — Riding Godzilla
Stephen Eoannou — Muscle Cars
Jim Proebstle — Fatal Incident
Daniel Mueller — Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey
James Connelly — Sisters