CJ Farley won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth and Teens for the novel Around Harvard Square (Akashic Books).
Mary Ruefle’s Dunce (Wave Books) and Brian Evenson’s Song for the Unraveling of the World (Coffee House Press) are finalists for theLA Times Book Prize.
When the Tree Falls was shortlisted for the Irish Times’ Poetry Now Award and the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award (Bloodaxe Books).