Literary Awards
TOM’S HISTORICAL FICTION
Moonbeam Award (Silver)
Celebrating youthful curiosity, discovery and learning through books and reading.
Pre-Teen Fiction – Historical
Gold
Operation Overlord: A Tommy Collins Adventure by Francis Moss (Self-Published)
Silver
The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Geometry Girls by Tom Durwood (Empire Studies Press)
Bronze
Molly Shipton Secret Actress by Sheri Graubert (Clear Fork Publishing)
Presented by Jenkins Group and Independent Publisher Online, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are designed to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading.
Purple Dragonfly Book Award Winners
The Purple Dragonfly Book Awards recognize accomplished, up-and-coming, and younger published authors in the field of children’s literature.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
1st Place: The Stallion and His Peculiar Boy by M.J. Evans
2nd Place: The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Math Girls by Tom Durwood, illustrated by Mai Nguyen
The Incipere Awards, sponsored by Entrada Publishing, recognize exceptional writing across multiple genres with particular focus on works that have been published by small, independent, and academic presses.
First Place – Anna J Walner – Saltwater and Driftwood
Second Place – Tom Durwood – The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Math Girls
Third Place – Frances Schoonmaker – Sid Johnson and the Phantom Salve Stealer
Two judges from a select panel of 27 read each book and independently score each entry. Only entries with the highest scores are awarded the coveted Firebird.
The Firebird Book Award judging panel includes a diverse group who represent a cross-section of ages, cultural heritage, races, religions, gender, and experience.
The Literary Titan Book Awards are awarded to books that have astounded and amazed us with unique writing styles, vivid worlds, complex characters and original ideas. These books deserve extraordinary praise, and we are proud to acknowledge the hard work, dedication and writing talent of these brilliant authors.
SPR BOOK AWARDS FINALIST
An unexpected love note to mathematics, this collection of stories is an allegorical plea for young girls to pursue and discover the wonders of numbers. The marketing potential for empowering young girls could make this a sleeper hit.
Congratulations on your work advancing to the FINALIST position of the SHORTS Book Awards for Fiction Series, a division of the 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs)!
“Ruby Pi and the Geometry Girls” by Tom Durwood receives 5 stars and the “Highly Recommended” award of excellence from The Historical Fiction Company.