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The winner of the 2010 Townsend Prize for Fiction was announced on April 22, 2010 at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, GA.
The Townsend Prize for Fiction, named for famed Atlanta Magazine founder and editor Jim Townsend, is Georgia’s oldest and most prestigious literary award, presented biennially to the Georgia writer who is judged by an independent panel to have produced the most outstanding work of fiction during the past two calendar years. Recipients have included Alice Walker, Ferroll Sams, Ha Jin, and Terry Kay. GPC and The Chattahoochee Review have been the custodians of the award since 1997.
The finalists for this year’s award are as follows:
James Braziel, Snakeskin Road (Bantam Books)
Phillip DePoy, The King James Conspiracy (St. Martin’s Press)
Tom Edwards, Blue Jesus (Academy Chicago)
Amanda Gable, The Confederate General Rides North (Scribner)
Joshilyn Jackson, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming (Grand Central)
Sang Pak, Wait Until Twilight (Harper)
Kathryn Stockett, The Help (Putnam)
Bailey White, Nothing with Strings (Scribner)
Susan Rebecca White, Bound South (Touchstone)
Philip Lee Williams, The Campfire Boys (Mercer)
You can read more about the Townsend Prize for Fiction here.