Gival Press Novel AwardMy novel, A Different Kind of Fire, was a finalist for the 2016 Gival Press Novel Award, judged by author John Domini. Mr. Domini has won awards in all genres, publishing fiction in Paris Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies, and non-fiction in GQ, The New York Times, and elsewhere. His 2007 novel, Earthquake I.D., was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

The 2016 Gival Press Novel Award Winner:

Dream of Another America by Tyler McMahon

The finalists were:

A Different Kind of Fire by Suanne Schafer

A Kind of Paradise by Bev Jafek

Wild Girl by Rita Ciresi

Water by Nagueyatti Warren