Chirby Awards 2020

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THE NOMINEES FOR THE FICTION CATEGORY ARE:

• The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata

• Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump

• The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah

• Stateway’s Garden by Jasmon Drain

• Pew by Catherine Lacey

THE NOMINEES FOR THE NONFICTION CATEGORY ARE:

• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

• Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

• Having and Being Had by Eula Biss

• Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum by Joe Meno

• 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