This year American Book Fest announced their Best Book Awards in their 15th annual award season. Three SparkPress and She Writes Press authors were the winners of their category. Ten finalist positions were also awarded to She Writes Press and SparkPress books in varying categories.

A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You by Donna Cameron (Winner Best Non-Fiction Book Cover) 

A Promise Given by Michelle Cox (Finalist in two categories: Romance and Cross-Genre)

Last Seen, A Dr. Pepper Hunt Mystery by J.L. Doucette (Finalist)

Midnight Crossing, A Novel by Diane Shute (Finalist)

Second Chance: A Mother’s Quest For a Natural Birth After a Cesarean by Thais Nye Derich (Finalist)

Excess Baggage: One Family’s Around-the-World Search for Balance by Tracey Carisch (Finalist)

The Buddha at My Table: How I Found Peace in Betrayal and Divorce by Tammy Letherer (Finalist)

Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago by Linda Gartz (Finalist)

I’m the One Who Got Away: A Memoir by Andrea Jarrell (Finalist)

The Cast by Amy Blumenfeld (Winner Best New Fiction)

The Leaving Year by Pam McGaffin (Winner Young Adult Fiction)

The Cast by Amy Blumenfeld (also a Finalist in Fiction: Chick Lit/Women’s Lit)

Just Like February by Deborah Batterman (Finalist)