TOP FINALIST BOOK:

VIGNETTES & POSTCARDS: Writings from The Evening Writing Workshop at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris, Fall 2011, Edited by Erin Byrne and Anna Pook. The book can be ordered here .



TWO TOP MEMOIRS:

Albert Flynn DeSilver of Woodacre, California for the memoir BEAMISH BOY

Alan Boreham (North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Peter Jinks (Sydney, Australia), and Bob Rossiter (Pyatt, Arkansas) for the memoir BEER IN THE BILGES: Sailing Adventures in the South Pacific



THREE TOP NOVEL-ENTRIES:

Shari A. Brady of Vernon Hills, Illinois, for the novel WISH I COULD HAVE SAID GOODBYE

Laine Cunningham of Hillsborough, North Carolina, for the novel MESSAGE STICK

Shannon Hamann of Brooklyn, New York, for the novel BRAD PITT WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE



15 OTHER ENTRIES OF NOTE:

Felice Cohen of New York City for the novel WHAT PAPA TOLD ME

Frank Talaber of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, for the novel WINDSONGS

Alle Wells of Spencer, North Carolina, for the novel RAILROAD MAN

Cathy Holt of Asheville, North Carolina, for the nonfiction book THE CIRCLE OF HEALING

Christina Rauh Fishburne of El Paso, Texas, for the novel ANCORA

Luisa Smith of San Jose, California, for the novel A FATHER'S LOVE

Rita Cerisi of Wesley Chapel, Florida, for the novel BRING BACK MY BODY TO ME

Marian Manseau Cheatham of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, for the novel MERELY DEE

Jonathan Lynch of Dublin, Ireland, for the novel THE GIFT

Nath Jones of Chicago, Illinois, for the short story collection LOVE & DARTS

J.D.R. Hawkins of Horn Lake, Mississippi for the novel A BEAUTIFUL GLITTERING LIE

Robert P. Johnson of Santa Barbara, California, for the novel THE MOMENTUM OF FOLLY

Jonathan Lyons of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, for the novel SIGNAL TO NOISE

K. C. Wilson of Neptune Beach, Florida, for the novel THE ROUTE

Katherine Hauswirth of Deep River, Connecticut, for the nonfiction book HARRIET'S VOICE: A WRITING MOTHER'S JOURNEY



2 ENTRIES OF PROMISE:

Jay Antani of Culver City, California, for the novel THE LEAVING OF THINGS

Niki Tulk of Jersey City, New Jersey, for the novel SHADOWS AND WINGS



