Four YYB Titles Are Finalists for the American Book Fests 2018 Best Book Award

Dec 17, 2018

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Updated: Jan 16, 2020

Huge Congratulations Marty McConnell, Lynn Melnick, Khadijah Queen, and Kayleb Rae Candrilli, each of whose books were selected as finalists for the American Book Fest's 2018 Best Book Award! We love these books!

Finalist, Best Book Award, Women's Issues

Finalist, Best Book Award, LGBTQ Non-Fiction

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LenaCarter

Oct 28

https://klarnacasinoplay.com got me thinking about how award categories shape the way we read a book before we even open it, and the fact that these four titles landed in such different slots like Education and LGBTQ Non-Fiction says a lot about how broadly their work resonates. It is interesting that a poetry collection can be judged against entirely different genres depending on which committee is looking at it. I have noticed that finalist lists often do more for a small press than the win itself, since readers tend to browse across categories they would never normally pick up.

iris725

Oct 12

It's striking that four independent titles landed as finalists together, especially when mainstream award lists often feel dominated by the same big imprints.

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Does that cluster say something about the press's editorial focus, or was it just a strong year for those four poets?

iris725

Sep 22

It’s striking that four poetry titles made finalist lists, but does grouping them under one award framing flatten how distinct these poets’ projects.

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are? I’d be curious whether each was judged in separate categories, since that changes what the recognition actually signals.

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Sep 19

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