CWA's Book of the Year Awards
Join us for the celebration at the Allerton Hotel in Chicago!
Congratulations to the finalists of the 14th annual BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS!
Traditional Fiction
Janice Deal: Strange Attractors: The Ephrem Stories
Amina Gautier: The Best That You Can Do: Stories
Ben Tanzer: The Missing
Ashley Honeysett: Fictions
Indie Fiction Â
Christopher Hawkins: Downpour
Michelle Cox: The Fallen Woman's Daughter
Frank Joseph: To Do Justice
Maggie Smith: Blindspot
Traditional Nonfiction
Dean Jobb: A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age
Rogue
Amy Yee: Far from the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents
Dipika Mukherjee: Writer's Postcards
Anne Morrissy: Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s
Indie Nonfiction
Risa August: The Road Unpaved: Border to Border with a Brain Tumor and a Bike
Mark Taylor: Hospital, Heal Thyself: One Brilliant Mathematician's Proven Plan for Saving Hospitals, Many Lives, and Billions of Dollars
Victoria Ann Granacki: An Artist Goes to War: Leon Granacki in the South Pacific WWII
Ken Smoller: Last Comiskey
BOTY winners will be announced in December and honored at a celebration/social event at the Tip Top Tap at the Warwick Allerton Hotel in Chicago, IL, on January 18, 2025.
Registration for this event will be free to CWA members and will open in December.