For the fifth year in a row, SparkPoint Studio’s hybrid publishing imprints – She Writes Press and SparkPress – have swept the indie book awards season, taking home more book award finalist and winner accolades for 2019 than any other indie publisher.

This year, nearly 100 awards and finalist designations have been given to She Writes Press and SparkPress authors. Highlights from the season include:

  • Sarton Book Awards Gold Medal recipient for Historical Fiction The River By Starlight by Ellen Notbohm
  • Wilbur Award Winner for Nonfiction Braided by Beth Ricanati
  • 5 winners and 20 finalists for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards
  • 12 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Finalists
  • 13 IPPY Award Winners
  •  2 First Place Chanticleer Reviews Award Winners (A Promise Given by Michelle Cox and The River by Starlight by Ellen Notbohm)
  • 2 Grand Prize Chanticleer Reviews Award Winner (A Promise Given by Michelle Cox and Hard Cider by Barbara Stark-Nemon)
  • 2 Eric Hoffer Book Award Winners (A Matter of Chance by Julie Maloney and A Year of Living Kindly by Donna Cameron) and 2 Grand Prize Short Lists (The River by Starlight by Ellen Notbohm and While They’re Still Here by Patricia Williams)
  • 3 winners and 15 finalists for the 2019 International Book Awards
  • 4 winners and 12 finalists for the 2018 Foreword Reviews Indie Fab Awards
  • 6 authors named to the 2019 American Fiction Awards Shortlist
  • 4 winners and 3 finalists for the 2019 Journey Book Awards
  • 2019 Finalist for the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Nancy Pearl Award: The River by Starlight Ellen Notbohm
  • Bronze Medal for Readers’ Favorite Book Awards Non-Fiction (Social Issues): Hummingbird in Underworld by Deborah Tobola
  • Gold medal winner in the Nonfiction Book Awards: When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew by Hendrika Devries
  • 3 gold medals, 1 silver medal, 1 bronze medal, 3 honorable mentions, and 4 finalists for Readers’ Favorite Book Awards
  • 3 gold medals, 3 silver medals, and 1 bronze medal in the Living Now Book Awards
  • Honorable Mention in the International Readers Favorite Awards for Historical Mystery: A Veil Removed by Michelle Cox
  • 1 gold medal, 1 silver medal, and 1 bronze medal in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards (Shrug by Lisa Braver Moss, I Love You Like That by Heather Cuminsky, and Return of the Evening Star by Diane Rios)
  • 3 Best Indie Books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Books of 2019 (We Got This edited by Marika Lindholm, Cheryl Dumesnil, Domenica Ruta, and Katherine Shonk, Bowing to Elephants by Mag Dimond, and The Red Ribbon by Nancy Freund Bills)
  • 4 finalists in the IAN Book of the Year Awards for 2019
  • Winner of National Indie Excellence Awards for Literary Fiction: A Marriage in Four Seasons by Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki
  • 2 winners for New York City Big Book Award: Tilda’s Promise by Jean Moore and Off the Rails by Susan Burrowes
  • 2 category wins and 1 category finalist for Beverly Hills Book Awards: The Nine by Jeanne Blasberg
  • 4 winners and 22 finalists in Best Book Awards for 2019
  • 5 Semi-Finalists in the Chanticleer JOURNEY Book Awards for Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir
  • 1 Semi-Finalist in the Chanticleer SOMERSET Awards for Literary, Contemporary, and Satire Fiction: The Same River by Lisa Reddick
  • 13 Finalists for the 2019 Foreword Indies Awards

“With over 800 accolades since launching the presses, She Writes Press in 2012 and SparkPress in 2014, we continue to be the gold standard in hybrid publishing and it’s an honor to see our books get this type of continuous recognition from so many well-respected organizations amplifying indie voices,” said Brooke Warner, publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress.