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2022 Memoir Book Prize Winners

Memoir Prize for Books

Memoir Magazine has announced the 2022 Winners of the Memoir Book Prize:

First Place
The View From Breast Pocket Mountain by Karen Hill Anton

Second Place
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts

Third Place
Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain by Cindy Weinstein and Bruce L. Miller

They also eliminated the ‘honorable mention’ category this year and instead created 23 specific categories with which to recognize entrants. Four of those selected are currently unpublished manuscripts, providing authors with an avenue for (hopefully) finding a publishing home for their works.

Visit the Memoir Magazine website for the full list of honorees and their books.

Memoir Magazine Announces Winners for Inaugural Memoir Prize for Books

Memoir Prize for BooksMemoir Magazine annually holds the Memoir Prize which awards Memoir and Creative Nonfiction book-length works of exceptional merit in three categories: traditionally published, self-published, and unpublished. The awards include a cash prize, a feature in Memoir Magazine, and a year’s worth of free advertising. This is the only prize of its kind solely focusing on memoir. The 2021 prize deadline will be announced in January.

The grand prize winner of the inaugural Memoir Prize for Books is Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen by Gint Aras.

The finalists and category winners were:

  • Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg
  • Wild Blueberries: Nuns, Rabbits & Discovery in Rural Michigan by Peter Damm
  • Dreams and Nightmares: I Fled Alone to the United States When I Was Fourteen by Liliana Velasquez

You can view the full list of honorable mentions at Memoir Magazine‘s website.