Finalists announced for 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction
The Atlanta Writers Club and Georgia Writers Museum have announced the novels and short story collections selected as finalists for the 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction. Denene Millner, One Blood (Forge Books) Chika Unigwe, The Middle Daughter (Dzanc Books) Anissa Gray, Life and Other Love Songs (Berkley, Penguin) Julia Franks, The Say So (Hub City Press) Ra’Niqua Lee, For What Ails You (ELJ […] The post Finalists announced for 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta.
The Atlanta Writers Club and Georgia Writers Museum have announced the novels and short story collections selected as finalists for the 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction.
Denene Millner, One Blood (Forge Books)
Chika Unigwe, The Middle Daughter (Dzanc Books)
Anissa Gray, Life and Other Love Songs (Berkley, Penguin)
Julia Franks, The Say So (Hub City Press)
Ra’Niqua Lee, For What Ails You (ELJ Editions)
John M Williams, End Times (Sartoris Literary Group)
Gordon Johnston, Seven Islands of the Ocmulgee: River Stories (Mercer University Press
Kimberly Brock, The Fabled Earth (Harper Muse)
Peter Selgin, A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space (Regal House Publishing)
Barbara Tucker, Lying In (Colorful Crow Publishing)
The Townsend Prize was created in 1981 to honor the legacy of Jim Townsend, founding editor of Atlanta magazine.
Past award winners include Alice Walker, Ha Jin, Philip Lee Williams, Ferrol Sams, Kathryn Stockett, Mary Hood, and Judson Mitcham.
Administered since the 1990s by Georgia Perimeter College (now Georgia State University Perimeter College) and The Chattahoochee Review., the stewardship of the Prize passed in 2021 to the Atlanta Writers Club (AWC). In the spring of 2023, Georgia Writers Museum joined the AWC as a partner in the Prize administration.
The 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction ceremony will be held on April 16 at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta.
For more information, visit atlantawritersclub.org.
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