We welcome the finalists of Eyelands Book Awards 2021.
For the fourth consecutive year, we are delighted to announce the finalists and – as always – sorry that many well-written books could not be included in the shortlist. The number of finalists is defined according to the submissions in the specific category so, as we do every year, there are more finalists in the novels category while the children’s books and the unpublished poetry categories have less finalists. Congratulations to all, many thanks for sharing all the fine books and for your support for yet another year. We truly hope that there will be a live awards ceremony next spring in Athens. In the meantime, last year’s Grand Prize for unpublished books -Lessons from the Greeks by Gail Sidonie Sobat- has already been published by Strange Days Books in a bilingual edition. Also, we will soon release two more books translated in Greek; Exile Music by Jennifer Steil (Grand Prize for published books) and Lizardmaid by Robin Luce Martin (Three Rock Prize).
Final results on December 30, 2021. Judges for the final stage: Gail Sidonie Sobat (grand prize winner 2020) P.H.C. Marchesi (grand prize winner 2019), Andriana Minou and Gregory Papadoyiannis.
EYELANDS BOOK AWARDS 2021 – THE FINALISTS
(Title of book, name of author and place of residence)
Category: NOVELS PUBLISHED
The Stroke Artist /Bevan Choate, MD
USA
The Smoke is me, Burning / C A Blintzios
Greece
Honour’s Rest / Judith Crow
Scotland
Childfree /Claire Sewell
New Zealand
The Landlord of Hummingbird House / Jane Harvey
UK; Channel Islands
Don’t think a single thought / Diana Cambridge
UK
Mia / Kayla Eason
USA
NOVELS UNPUBLISHED
The Museum of Our Realities / Raluca Comanelea
USA
An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth /João Cerqueira
Portugal
Finisterre / Caroline Brothers
UK
In Transit / By Ollie Randall
USA
Bridge over the Neretva / Django Wylie
Switzerland
The Accidental Time Traveller / Sylvia Bluck
UK
From Now On / D.R. Hill
UK
POETRY PUBLISHED
Tears In My Bread /Maria Papageorgiou-Foroudi
Australia
Nigger for life / Neal Hall
USA
Perishable World / Author: Alicia Hokanson
USA
Hummingbird From Heaven/ Keti Bozukova
Bulgaria
Scripted seeds and other poems /T M Raghuram
India
POETRY UNPUBLISHED
Transitory /Subhaga Crystal Bacon
USA
Ensemble -(Refugee Voices, Images and Artists Installations)/ Joan Michelson,
UK
Germany
Resistance /Colin Campbell Robinson
Scotland
SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED
Let Us Look Elsewhere / Mona Dash
UK
It’s Funny Until Someone Loses an Eye (Then It’s Really Funny)
/ Kurt Luchs / USA
Fugitives – different voices, different stories / E.C.Gardiner
UK
Broken In: A Novel in Stories / Jadi Campbell
Germany
Love Stories for Hectic People / Catherine McNamara
Italy
Quaternity: Four Novellas from the Carpathians / Maria Rybakova
Kazakhstan
SHORT STORIES UNPUBLISHED
A General History of the Feminine Brain / Raluca Comanelea
USA
Rakiya / Ellis Shuman
Israel
Cursed Beauty / Valentina Tsoneva
USA
Slices of Cake: A Collection of Short Stories / Christina Hoag
USA
HISTORICAL FICTION PUBLISHED
Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops /Allison Hong Merrill
USA
Drudegries for Feat, Identifying and Leveraging Opportunities in a Foreign Country / Beatrice Hofmann / UK
Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer’s Journey through Greece/ Mark Haskell Smith
USA
The Strathmore Stories /R.A.Lucas
Canada
Malabar Musings / T M Raghuram
India
HISTORICAL FICTION UNPUBLISHED
Hiroshima Bomb Money / Terry Watada
Canada
Yesteryear / Stephen G. Eoannou
USA
The Swimmer /David Tenenbaum
USA
China China / Tong Ge /Canada
A Girl Called Redemption / Sophie Neville
UK
CHILDREN PUBLISHED
The Buried City – A Tale of Two Time Zones / Judith Brulo
UK
Sailing away to Nod / Brenda M. Spalding /USA
Thread and Thrum /Jane Bower /UK
CHILDREN UNPUBLISHED
Evolution / Zelda Conway /UK
The Mudlark Mysteries
The Grinning Throat/ Kate Wiseman /UK
The Great Mountain / J.T. Berk /USA
A Tooth Too Far / James Wright /UK
Griff, Luke and Ariadne in: The kingdom of Trung Trung Karmo /Judith Brulo / UK
1941 /Abigail Keoghan
Ireland
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