[Crwt-undergrad-info] MFA Alum — Edgar Gomez 2023 American Book Awards

[Allison Hedge Coke]

Congratulations to Edgar Gomez!

(Also other Writers Week authors, Bojan Louis’ in his second ABA, first was
in poetry, this is fiction and Maxine Hong Kingston!

Yay, EDGAR!

The 2023 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday,
October 1, 2023, from 2:00–4:30 p.m., Koret Auditorium, San Francisco
Public Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA. 94102
<https://www.google.com/maps/search/100+Larkin+St.,+San+Francisco,+CA.+94102?entry=gmail&source=g>.
This event is free and open to the public.

The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for
outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s
diverse literary community.  The purpose of the awards is to recognize
literary excellence without limitations or restrictions.  There are no
categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range
from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and
first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply
reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views
American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term
“multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or
“special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American
literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but
rather are a writers’ award given by other writers.

The 2023 American Book Award Winners

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
When We Were Birds: A Novel (Doubleday)
Edgar Gomez
High Risk Homosexual: A Memoir (Soft Skull)
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (W. W. Norton
& Company)
Everett Hoagland
The Ways: Poems of Affirmation, Remembrance, Reflection and Wonder (North
Star Nova Press)
Anne F. Hyde
Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the
American West
(W.W. Norton & Company)
Jamil Jan Kochai
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories (Viking)
Aidan Levy
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins (Hachette Books)
Bojan Louis
Sinking Bell: Stories (Graywolf Press)
Leila Mottley
Nightcrawling: A Novel (Knopf)
Darryl Pinckney
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street,
Manhattan
 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Sherry Shenoda
Mummy Eaters (University of Nebraska Press)
Mosab Abu Toha
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza (City Lights Books)
Javier Zamora
Solito: A Memoir (Hogarth)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Maxine Hong Kingston
Anti-Censorship Award
Neta C. Crawford
The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S.
Military Emissions
(MIT Press)
Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism
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