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Rising Star Award for Unpublished Women's Fiction
Past Winners
2024
First Place
Playing in the Shadow of the Wind, Jacqueline Coleman
Finalists
Istanbul Dreaming, Denise Brandt
The Swan, Anna Krammer
The Tribe of Melancholy Women, Elizabeth Luciano
This One Little Life, Stephanie Webb
2023
First Place
Out of the Crash, Susan Poole
Finalists
Time to Choose, Katherine Caldwell
The Domestic Diplomat, Christy Matheson
A Hiker's Guide to Falling, Frances McInnis
Seeds of the Pomegranate, Suzanne Samuels
2022
First Place
The Last Trial of Lucy Crawford by Victoria Watkins
Finalists
The Man Between Us, by Elizabeth Gillman
You Can't Make This Stuff Up, by Amy Maitland
The Original Handmaid, by Margaret Morse
Under Her Influence, by Erin Quinn-Kong
2021
First Place
A Better Mother, by Hadley Leggett
Finalists
The Roost, by Clare Barnett
I'd Hate Me, Too, by MG Colangelo
The Devils I Know, by Michelle Cruz
A Matter of Perspective, by Karen Kroll
2020
First Place
Scarves, by Rebecca J. Sanford
Finalists
Crocodile Tears, by Kilby Blades
Crooked Lake, by Melissa Lanning
Faces of War, by Barbara Ristine
Practically Perfect In Every Way, by Brigette Russell
2019
First Place (tie)
Someone to Watch Over, by William Schreiber
In Search of Jake Ryan, by Michele Egan
Second Place (tie)
Circumference of Silence, by Jacquie Herz
A Moment's Indulgence, by Seema Kahn
Truth and Other Lies, by Maggie Smith
2018
First Place: Angel Falls, by Shelby Riley
Second Place: Up a Gum Tree, by Robin Facer
Third Place: Love You Better, by Rachel Berros
Finalists
What Comes After Four, by Miranda Darrow
Looking for Darcy, by Ginny Elkin
2017
First Place: The Fifty-Week Wife. by Sheri Taylor-Emery
Second Place: Exit Strategy, by Lainey Cameron
Third Place: Margin of Safety, by Rebecca Hodge
Finalists
Lavender Field, by Amiee Holland
On the Verge of Breathing, by Krista Riccioni
2016
First Place: The Substitute Princess, by Kathleen Sander Basi
Second Place: By Accident, by Laura Levin
Third Place: Shelter Me, by Gabrielle Luthy
Finalists
The Kindest Lie, by Nancy Johnson
Four Women Talking, by Micki Berthelot Morency
2015
First Place: Saudade, by Kristin Pedroja
Second Place: The Edge of the Ocean, by Lisa Duffy
Third Place: One Step Forward, by Kasey Ferris
Finalists
I Hold the Wind, by Erin Bartels
Soundtracks of Separation, by Layla Denny
What’s Left Untold, by Sherri Leimkuhler
2014
First Place: A Sister in Need, by Jenny Hansen
Second Place: So Brand New, by Patricia O’Day Rosen
Third Place: The Wine Widow, by Kathleen Basi
Finalists
Silent Grace, by Geri LeClerc
Trespass, by Sandra Neily
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