Townsend Prize for Fiction

The 2018 Townsend Prize

• The Guineveres by Sarah Domet
• Over the Plain Houses by Julia Franks
• The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson
• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
• The Lemon Jell-O Syndrome by Man Martin
• Lightning Men by Thomas Mullen
• The Half Wives by Stacia Pelletier
• Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb
• Shadow of the Lions by Christopher Swann
• The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang

  Previous winners

• Celestine Sibley, Children, My Children
• Alice Walker, The Color Purple
• Philip Lee Williams, The Heart of a Distant Forest
• Mary Hood, And Venus Is Blue
• Sara Flanigan, Alice
• Charlie Smith, The Lives of the Dead
• Ferrol Sams, When All the World Was Young
• Pam Durban, The Laughing Place
• JoAllen Bradham, Some Personal Papers
• Judson Mitcham, The Sweet Everlasting
• James Kilgo, Daughter of My People
• Ha Jin, The Bridegroom
• Terry Kay, The Valley of Light
• Judson Mitcham, Sabbath Creek
• Renee Dodd, A Cabinet of Wonders
• Kathryn Stockett, The Help
• Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers
• Mary Hood, "A Clear View of the Southern Sky"