Announcing the 2011 Discover Great New Writers Award Shortlist (Fiction and Non-fiction)

Dear Readers,

David Guterson received the very first Discover Great New Writers Award for Snow Falling on Cedars in 1994. Other winners include Chang-rae Lee for Native Speaker, Elizabeth McCraken for The Giant's House, Hampton Sides for Ghost Soldiers, and David Sheff for Beautiful Boy.

Safe to say that the authors on the 2011 shortlist are in great company.


The 2011 Discover Great New Writers Award shortlist:
Fiction:


Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Untouchable by Scott O'Connor (Tyrus Books, a division of F+W Media)
Volt by Alan Heathcock (Graywolf Press)

Non-fiction:

Day of Honey by Annia Ciezaldo (Free Press)
Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy (Henry Holt & Co.)
[sic] by Joshua Cody (W.W. Norton)


Full piece including comments on each shortlisted title.