Award-Winners

I Know It in My Heart by Mary Plouffe was named a finalist in Memoir by Maine Literary Awards.

Congratulations to all our 2018 International Book Awards winners and finalists:

Winners

Swearing Off Stars by Danielle M. Wong won in Fiction: LGBTQ.

Finding My Badass Self: A Year of Truths and Dares by Sherry Stanfa-Stanley won in Health: Aging/50+.

Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture by Lisa Boucher won in Health: Women’s Health.

Finalists

Breaking Sad: What to Say After Loss, What Not to Say, and When to Just Show Up edited by Shelly Fisher & Jennifer Jones was a finalist in Anthologies: Non-Fiction.

But My Brain Had Other Ideas: A Memoir of Recovery from Brain Injury by Deb Brandon, Filling Her Shoes: A Memoir of an Inherited Family by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder and Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter by Elizabeth W. Garber were finalists in Autobiography/Memoir.

Above the Star by Alexis Marie Chute and Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City by Christine Evelyn Volker were finalists in Best New Fiction.

Above the Star by Alexis Marie Chute was a finalist in Fiction: Fantasy and Fiction: Young Adult.

Dark Lady: A Novel of Emilia Bassano Lanyer by Charlene Ball and When It’s Over by Barbara Ridley were finalists in Fiction: Historical.

Just in Time by Joan L. Jackson was a finalist in Fiction: Literary.

Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City by Christine Evelyn Volker was a finalist in Fiction: Mystery/Suspense.

Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture by Lisa Boucher was a finalist in Health: Addiction & Recovery and in Women’s Issues.

Breaking Sad: What to Say After Loss, What Not to Say, and When to Just Show Up edited by Shelly Fisher & Jennifer Jones and The Gift of Goodbye: A Story of Agape Love by Rebecca Whitehead Munn, MBA were finalists in Health: Death & Dying.

You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson was a finalist in LGBTQ: Non-Fiction.

Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago by Linda Gartz was a finalist in Multicultural Non-Fiction.

I’m the One Who Got Away: A Memoir by Andrea Jarrell was a finalist in Non-Fiction Narrative.

Loving Lindsey: Raising a Daughter with Special Needs by Linda Atwell was a finalist in Parenting & Family.

The Business of Being: Soul Purpose In and Out of the Workplace by Laurie Buchanan, PhD was a finalist in Self-Help: Motivational.

News and Updates

Drinking from the Trough by Mary Carlson was called an “edgy memoir, marked by wit and poignancy” by Kirkus Reviews. 

Upcoming Events

Rifka Kreiter, author of Home Free, is hosting a reading at Golden Notebook, Woodstock’s Indie Bookstore on Saturday, July 14th at 4:30 p.m.

Elizabeth Garber, author of Implosion, is hosting a book launch at Shakespeare & Co in NYC on June 19th at 6:30 p.m.

Helen Zuman, author of Mating in Captivity, is hosting her book launch at Oak Vino Wine Bar in Beacon, NY at 3 p.m. on June 3rd and a second event Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture on June 8th at 7:30 p.m.

 

Every week, we celebrate noteworthy achievements and upcoming events happening within the She Writes Press community in our “Friday High Fives!” If you have coverage you’d like to share, a new award to your name or an event planned, please email digital@sparkpointstudio.com and we’ll get you included in an upcoming Friday High Fives!