Tuan Phan, Winner of The Panther Creek Award
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The Panther Creek Book Award in Non-Fiction
Our inaugural cycle of the Panther Creek Book Award has concluded, and we are pleased to announce here the list of semi-finalists, finalists and winner of the award. We wish to thank ALL the writers who have entrusted us with their work, who have submitted their manuscripts to us. We’d also like to take this opportunity to say just how wonderful these manuscripts were, how talented these wonderful writers are — an avalanche of talent. We’d like to congratulate Tuan Phan of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, author of the winning memoir, Remembering Water. He will receive the monetary prize of $1,000 and his manuscript will be published by Hidden River Press, an imprint of Hidden River Publishing.
The deadline for the next cycle of the Panther Creek Award is April 15, 2020. Submissions will be accepted beginning January 1, 2020. Please see our guidelines for more details.
Okay. Here is the list of the semi-finalists, finalists and the winner of The Panther Creek Book Award in Non-Fiction:
Semi-Finalists
Anderson, Susan, Eugene, Oregon, Please Plant This Book Coast to Coast
Bauman, M. Garrett, Nunda, New York, If God Breake My Bones
Bernstein, Joshua, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, In Josaphat’s Valley
Boyajy, Thomas, Boston, Massachusetts, Baby Boomer Memoir: Reflections on a Generation of Change
Cleave, Kaye, Oakland, California, My Beautiful, Reckless Girl
Ciresi, Rita, Wesley Chapel, Florida, Made in America
Dennis, Susan, Hillsborough, North Carolina, The Swing
Dresman, Paul, Eugene, Oregon, Dinosaurs and Crickets
Drury, John Philip, Cincinnati, Ohio, Bobby and Carolyn: Two Women with a Boy in the 1950s
Ferguson, Greyson, Tucson, Arizona, Travel for the Soul (Even if You Don’t Have One)
Florey, Justin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, City of Crows
Graham, David, Denver, Colorado, Take This Car for the Healer: A Zuihitsu on Trains
Greenway, William, Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Brainstorm
Greenway, William, Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Everything We Bring, All We Leave Behind
Hardin, Michael, Danville, Pennsylvania, Touched
Hasting, Kelli, Orlando, Florida, Rotten Minerva
Hill, james, Saratoga Springs, New York, Midpoint: Manhood, Midlife and Prostate Cancer
Horsley, Kate, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Magnificent Sorrow: A Memoir of Two Lives
Ives, Rich, Camano Island, Washington, Appearances
Kann, Lydia, Northampton, Massachusetts, Ways to Leave: A Memoir
Kennedy, David, New York, New York, The Gilded Cage
Koelsch, John, Salem, Virginia, Ubuntu
Mason, Andrea, Denver, Colorado, Continental Divide: Surviving the Forces of My Nature
Miller, Sandra, Arlington, Massachusetts, Trove
Moriarity, Marilyn, Roanoke, Virginia, Slivers from a Broken World
Paramo, Adriana, Kissimmee, Florida, Milk, Oil, and a Night of Tequila
Pedler, Gary, San Fransisco, California, Couchsurfing: The Musical
Phan, Tuan, Quincy, Massachusetts, Remembering Water
Rosin, Brandon, San Pedro, California, Viva Corpocracy!
Sajé, Natasha, Salt Lake City, Utah, Terroir: Essays on Otherness
Sapir, Marc, Berkeley, California, “How’s It Going, Doc?” Peopled
Shah, Jacquelyn, Houston, Texas, Limited Engagement: A Way of Living
Schofield, Don, Macedonia, Greece, Angels, Elephants and Ants
Shroeder, Tom, St. Paul, Minnesota, Who is Enjoying the Shadow of Whom
Specker, Peter, Clearwater, Florida, My Life As Flash by 42nd Street Spike
Tatrallyay, Geza, Barnard, Vermont, The Fencers
Tokaji, Diana, Silver Spring, Maryland, SIX WOMEN IN A CELL: A Story of Sisterhood and Survival After Police Assault
Weeks, Norman, Asheville, North Carolina, Autobioscenes & Necrographies
Williams, Megan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Shock and Awe: One Mother’s Search for Meaning in the Philadelphia Police Department
Wilson, Keith, Naknek, Alaska, A Road Out of Naknek
Winakur, Jerald, Comfort, Texas, A Doctor in the Family: Humane Aging and the Culture of Medicine
Woychik, Chila, Shellsburg, Iowa, Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology
Yakoviev, Natasha, Stow, Massachusetts, The Education of Natasha: Paris ’68
Finalists
Anderson, Susan, Eugene, Oregon, Please Plant This Book Coast to Coast
Boyajy, Thomas, Boston, Massachusetts, Baby Boomer Memoir: Reflections on a Generation of Change
Cleave, Kaye, Oakland, California, My Beautiful, Reckless Girl
Hardin, Michael, Danville, Pennsylvania, Touched
Hasting, Kelli, Orlando, Florida, Rotten Minerva
Moriarity, Marilyn, Roanoke, Virginia, Slivers from a Broken World
Phan, Tuan, Quincy, Massachusetts, Remembering Water
Sapir, Marc, Berkeley, California, “How’s It Going, Doc?” Peopled
Winner of the 2018 Panther Creek Book Award in Non-Fiction:
Phan, Tuan, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Remembering Water
Again, we send our greatest gratitude and respect to all the writers who have submitted their work to us. We want to honor and acknowledge every single of one of you, and wish you all the best success with your work.
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