Barnes & Noble, Inc. has announced the six finalists for its 2011 Discover Great New Writers Awards. The winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble. Second-place finalists receive $5,000, and third-place finalists, $2,500. The finalists are:
Fiction:
* Alan Heathcock, Volt (Graywolf Press)
* Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind (Atlantic Monthly Press)
* Scott O'Connor, Untouchable (Tyrus Books, a division of F+W Media, Inc.)
Nonfiction:
* Annia Ciezadlo, Day of Honey (Free Press)
* Joshua Cody, [sic] (W.W. Norton)
* Michael Levy, Kosher Chinese (Henry Holt & Co.)
The winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at a private awards ceremony. The Discover Awards honor the best works featured the previous calendar year in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program
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