![]() ![]() This year we created score sheets for the screeners to organize their comments about each of the top entries. Our first-round screeners, literary scholar Anne Keithline and editor and therapist Lauren Singer Ledoux, worked overtime to create a shortlist of about 50 books for final judges Ellen LaFleche and Jendi Reiter. ![]() To our also-rans, we say, don't be discouraged: maybe one more round of edits will bring you into the winners' circle. Our new categories proved to be a popular addition, as we received a record 997 entries, more than twice as many as last year! There is so much talent and enthusiasm in the indie author community. ![]() Thanks to everyone who entered our fourth annual North Street Book Prize for self-published books of genre fiction, mainstream/literary fiction, creative nonfiction/memoir, poetry, and children's picture books. Gordon Neufeld, Prophet and Loss, Literary Fiction Barbara Jean Hicks, Once Upon a Parsnip, Childrens Picture Book. ![]()
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