Will Eaves’s Murmur (Bellevue Literary Press) won the Wellcome Book Prize.
Casey Plett’s Little Fish and Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed (both Arsenal Pulp Press) are finalists for the $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.
Noah Van Sciver’s One Dirty Tree, Anne Elizabeth Moore’s Sweet Little C*nt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet (both Uncivilized Books), Justin Duerr’s The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Words and Worlds of Herbert Crowley, and editors Ronald Wimberly & Josh O’Neill’s LAAB Magazine #0: Dark Matter (both Beehive Books) are all nominated for 2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
Luke W. Molver’s Shaka Rising: A Legend of the Warrior Prince (Catalyst Press/Story Press Africa) is a 2019 Honor Book for Older Readers by the Children’s Africana Book Awards Committee.