Benjamin Franklin Award Winners New Voice: Fiction

Awards List

2022

The Ghosts of Thorwald Place (Gold Winner)
Helen Power

Oct-2021
/ Police Procedural

Daughter of the Salt King (Silver Winner)
A.S. Thornton

Feb-2021
/ Contemporary Romance

Paper Airplanes (Silver Winner)
Tabitha Forney

Sep-2021
/ Thriller

2021

Far Away Bird (Gold Winner)
Douglas A. Burton

Feb-2020
/ Historical

Poisoned Jungle (Silver Winner)
James Ballard

Aug-2020
/ Thriller

Iceman Awakens (Silver Winner)
Sharon Krasny

Nov-2020
/ Historical

2019

Heir of Ra (Gold Winner)
Maciek Sasinowski

/ Action Adventure

The Orchard Lover (Silver Winner)
Christianna McCausland

2019
/ General Fiction

Better Than This (Silver Winner)
Belle Brett

Sep-2018
/ Psychological Suspense

The Witness Tree (Silver Winner)
Amy Pendino

Sep-2018
/ Mystery

2018

Dark Associations (Gold Winner)
Marie Sutro

Jan-2017
/ Thriller

Eden (Silver Winner)
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

May-2017
/ General Fiction

The Fix (Silver Winner)
Sharon Leder

May-2017
/ General Fiction

Gradle Bird (Silver Winner)
J.C. Sasser

Jun-2017
/ Thriller

2017

Follow the River Home (Gold Medal Winner)
Corran Harrington

Apr-2016
/ Literary

2015

The Second Letter (Gold Medal Winner)
Robert Lane

Jan-2014
/ Mystery

Two Performance Artists Kidnap Their Boss and Do Things with Him (Silver Medal Winner)
Scotch Wichmann

Apr-2014
/ Action Adventure

The Oblate S Confession (Silver Medal Winner)
William Peak

Dec-2014
/ Historical

2014

Yesterday's Echo (Silver Medal Winner)
Matt Coyle

May-2013
/ Thriller

2013

Echoes of Pemberley (Silver Medal Winner)
Cynthia Ingram Hensley

Dec-2011
/ Romance

Code of the Forest (Silver Medal Winner)
Jon Buchan

May-2012
/ General Fiction

2008

First, There Is a River (Finalist)
Kathy Steffen

Aug-2007
/ Historical Romance

2006

Joheved (Winner)
Maggie Anton

Jun-2005
/ Historical Romance

2005

The Race: A Novel of Grit, Tactics, and the Tour de France (Winner)
Dave Shields

Jun-2004
/ General Fiction

2004

Waiting for White Horses (Winner)
Nathan Jorgenson

Jan-2004
/ Literary

Winter in Kandahar (Finalist)
Steven E. Wilson

Oct-2003
/ General Fiction

2003

The Whoosh of Gadoosh (Winner)
Pat Skene

Jun-2002
/ Fantasy

Other Gods: The Averillan Chronicles (Finalist)
Barbara Reichmuth Geisler

Aug-2001
/ Historical

Award Categories

Boty-Budget Under 10k

Children's Book W/Audio

Children's Picture Book (0-3 Years)

Children's Picture Book (4-7 Years)

Cover Design (Small)

Cover Design-1-2 Color

Cover Design-3 + Color

Cover Design-3+child-Y/A

Cover Design-3+color Lg

Cover Design-3+color SM

Cover Design-Child & Y/A

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

Benjamin Franklin Award - New Voice: Fiction (Awarded by Independent Book Publishers Association)

Awards List

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