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2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR - FICTION
FULL BOOK TITLE: Soul Dancing
AUTHOR NAME: Gail Priest
PUBLISHER NAME: Red Adept Publishing
2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR - NON-FICTION
FULL BOOK TITLE: The Child Catcher: A Fight for Justice and Truth
AUTHOR NAME: Andrew Bridge
PUBLISHER NAME: Regalo Press
2024 SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR
FULL BOOK TITLE: FIERCE: My Fight for Nothing Less
AUTHOR NAME: Marian E. Washington and Vicki L. Friedman
PUBLISHER NAME: Ascend Books
In 2022 The Washington Post called her the Jackie Robinson of collegiate women’s basketball coaching. Now Marian E. Washington shares her compelling life story, tracing her humble roots in rural Pennsylvania to the unprecedented legacy she left for the advancement of women’s athletics and African American women.Washington became the first female African American head coach at a predominantly White institution at the Division I level when the University of Kansas hired her in 1973. A year later she was named KU’s first women’s athletics director. Over 31 years she coached Kansas women’s basketball to 560 wins, 11 NCAA Tournament appearances and two Sweet Sixteens.But her legacy is the battle she waged for equity inside the walls of her own institution and nationally, becoming a trailblazer for a host of successful Division I Black female coaches. In 1996 she became the first Black woman to coach on a U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team staff, serving as an assistant coach on the USA’s gold medal-winning team.Washington was the first female President of the Black Coaches Association. She is enshrined in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and is a finalist on the Ballot for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. FIERCE is her story.
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2024 HAWTHORNE PRIZE WINNER
THE FALL OF BELLWETHER
Congratulations to Chad V. Broughman on winning the 2024 Hawthorne Prize for his compelling work, "The Fall of Bellwether"!
FULL BOOK TITLE: The Fall of Bellwether
AUTHOR NAME: Chad V. Broughman
PUBLISHER NAME: Anamacara Press, LLC
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Bellwether-Chad-V-Broughman/dp/1960462148/ref
Chad V. Broughman
Chad V. Broughman was the recipient of the Rusty Scythe Prize Book Award and the Adobe Cottage Writers Retreat honor in New Mexico. As well, Chad was awarded two chapbook contracts for his short story collections––“the forsaken” and "slighted"––both published by Etchings Press. His fiction can be found in journals nationwide, such as Carrier Pigeon, East Coast Literary Review, River Poets Journal, Burningword, Pulp Fiction, Sky Island Journal, and From Whispers to Roars, and he is anthologized in Write Michigan Short Story Anthology, On Loss, and Scribes Valley Anthology. He is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, and his debut novel The Fall of Bellwether was shortlisted by the First Novel Prize of London, earned the Amity Literary Prize for 2023, and reached finalist status in ScreenCraft’s Cinematic Novel competition. Additionally, the novel’s opening chapter won the First Chapter Contest sponsored by Arch Street Press and, currently, “Bellwether” is ranked in the top ten on Coverfly’s top rated Historical Book/Manuscript projects of all-time.
Chad holds an MFA from Spalding University and served as co-editor for the fiction/poetry blog "Cafe Aphra" based out of the United Kingdom. He teaches English and Creative Writing at the secondary and post-secondary levels but is most proud of his roles as a husband and devoted father to two rambunctious sons.
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