Trinity grad finalist for book award contest: online voting underway
Author Erika Howsare, a 1995 graduate of Trinity High School, is one of 10 finalists for the Library of Virginia’s annual People’s Choice Awards, for which the public is invited to vote online until July 15.
The finalists represent the most-requested fiction and nonfiction titles by Virginia authors, or about the commonwealth, published in 2024.
Individuals can vote online at https://lvafoundation.org/peopleschoiceawards.
Winners will be announced at the 28th Annual Virginia Literary Awards Celebration, the commonwealth’s biggest night honoring its authors and their stories, on Sept. 20.
The five nonfiction finalists for the People’s Choice Award are:
Howsare, “The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship With Our Wild Neighbors”;
Alan Pell Crawford, “This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America’s Revolutionary War in the South”;
Evan Friss, “The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore”;
Heath Hardage Lee, “The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady”;Earl Swift, “Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery.”
Five fiction books also were selected.
In addition to the award and distinguished recognition, winners in each category receive a monetary prize of $2,500.