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THE NOMINEES FOR THE FICTION CATEGORY ARE:
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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata
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Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump
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The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
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Stateway’s Garden by Jasmon Drain
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Pew by Catherine Lacey
THE NOMINEES FOR THE NONFICTION CATEGORY ARE:
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
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Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
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Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum by Joe Meno
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Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer
THE NOMINEES FOR THE POETRY CATEGORY ARE:
- Central Air by Mike Puican
- So Forth by Rosanna Warren
- Too Much Midnight by Krista Franklin
- American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans by Chris Green
- Two Menus by Rachel DeWoskin
THE NOMINEES FOR STORY OR ESSAY ARE:
- “When reporting on movement actions, revolutionary joy must be given the same space as the struggle” by Matt Harvey in The Triibe
- “For Decades, Chicago’s Black Cowboys Have Kept An Overlooked History Alive. Now, Thanks To Lil Nas X, People Are Paying Attention” by Maxwell Evans in Block Club Chicago
- “Ode to a Chicago Public School” by Nina Li Coomes in Chicago Reader
- “What Happened July 17?” by Jim Daley, Martha Bayne, and Jason Schumer, Web interactive by Bea Malsky in South Side Weekly
- “The Coyote’s Dance” by Austin Gilkeson in Tin House