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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