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STAR Award for Published Women's Fiction
Past Winners
2023
GENERAL CATEGORY
Winner: The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Erin Litteken
Finalists:
Red Thread of Fate by Lyn Liao Butler
These Numbered Days by Anna Collins
OUTSTANDING DEBUT
Winner: Truth and Other Lies by Maggie Smith
Finalists:
Still True by Maggie Ginsberg
Visible Signs by Grace Marcus
2022
GENERAL CATEGORY
Winner: The Wilderness Between Us by Penny Haw
Finalists:
He Gets That From Me by Jacqueline Friedland
Behind the Lens by Jeannée Sacken
OUTSTANDING DEBUT
Winner: The Audacity of Sara Grayson: A Novel by Joani Elliott
Finalists:
Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton
A Day Like This: A Novel by Kelley McNeil
2021
GENERAL CATEGORY
Winner: Her Perfect Life, by Rebecca Taylor
Finalists:
Jamie Beck, Truth of the Matter
Kim Taylor Blakemore, The Companion
OUTSTANDING DEBUT
Winner: Wildland, by Rebecca Hodge
Finalists:
K.D. Allbaugh, Face Down in Rising Sun
Ehsaneh Sadr, A Door Between Us
2020
GENERAL CATEGORY
Winner: We Hope for Better Things, by Erin Bartels
Finalists:
Kelly Harms, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids
OUTSTANDING DEBUT
Winner: We Hope for Better Things, by Erin Bartels
Finalists:
Lorelei R. Brush, Uncovering
Christie Grotheim, The Year Marjorie Moore Learned to Live
2019
GENERAL CATEGORY
Winner: My Dear Hamilton, by Laura Kamoie and Stephanie Dray
Finalists:
Julie Clark, The Ones We Choose
Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets
OUTSTANDING DEBUT
Winner: The Queen of Hearts, by Kimmery Martin
Finalists:
Reyna Gentin, Unreasonable Doubts
Suanne Schafer, A Different Kind of Fire
2018
GENERAL CATEGORY
Winner: Last Christmas in Paris, by Heather Webb and Hazel Gaynor
Finalists:
Orly Konig Lopez, The Distance Home
Jacqueline Sheehan, The Tiger in the House
OUTSTANDING DEBUT
Winner: Are You Sleeping (Truth Be Told), by Kathleen Barber
Finalists:
Lori Henriksen, The Winter Loon
Orly Konig Lopez, The Distance Home
2017
GENERAL CATEGORY
Winner: The Stone Necklace, by Carla Damron
OUTSTANDING DEBUT
Winner: Lift and Separate, by Marilyn Simon Rothstein
2016
GENERAL CATEGORY
Winner: The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster, Scott Wilbanks
OUTSTANDING DEBUT
Winner: The Girl Who Wrote in Silk, by Kelli Estes
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