Nonfiction Prize Short- and Longlist Honorees

It’s been our immense pleasure to read such talented entries this year, and we had a deeply difficult time choosing between them. Below are our short- and longlist honorees.

Nonfiction Prize Shortlist

The Horse-Headed Forest by Terese Svoboda

Girl of All Work by Maura Finkelstein

One Pima Pilgrim: A Symphonic Memoir of a Father, His Son, and the Indigenous Southwest by D.A. Navoti

Disfigure Studies by Asha Dore

A Novel Condition: On Chronic Illness & the Imagination by Jodie Vinson

Longlist

An African Odyssey by Evelyn Hena

Ramble by Kim O’Neil

Throat Full of Stars by Kat Moore

Bridget Horan Rises from the Dead and Whispers in my Ear: Profiles & Resurrections by Sonja Livingston

Breakdown of Poses by Jacqueline Lyons

Future Ghosts: Rhapsodies on Haunting and Healing by Liz Asch

Oracles by Sammie Downing

The Burning House by Cory Brown

[Scraps] of Poetry & Friendship by Emilio Carrero

GIRL/THING by Anna Vodicka

Unlikely: A Memoir in Essays by Emily Waples

Perhaps in Lhasa: Antonio Gramsci and Disability by Anne Finger

Promiscuous Young Men: Essays by Daniel Uncapher

Refuge with Wolves by Sophie Pugh-Sellers

How to Survive a Mass Shooting: A Columbine Memoir by Krista Hanley