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Congratulations to Leah Hager Cohen, whose novel To & Fro is the winner of the Julia Ward Howe Book Award from the Boston Authors Club and longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and to Melissa Pritchard, author of Flight of the Wild Swan and the finalist for the Georgia Author of the Year Award.

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Paul Harding had trouble finding a home for his debut novel, Tinkers. He signed with Bellevue Literary Press, a small publisher. . . . Then it won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize . . . These stories hearten struggling writers and everyone else who struggles too . . . These stories, finally, tell us that a healthy book industry is a diverse one . . . The more gatekeepers, the better.

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Michèle Forbes

It had never dawned on me to send my debut novel, Ghost Moth, to the US, but in 2011, as part of Dublin Writers’ Festival, I attended a workshop with the American author Paul Harding. Harding is the author whose quiet, contemplative debut novel, Tinkers, nobody wanted. He’s also the author who went on to win, with that same quiet novel, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction after it had been published by Bellevue Literary Press, in New York. So, after 38 rejections from agents in the UK and Ireland, I metaphorically brushed the coal dust off my manuscript, popped it in a fresh brown envelope and set it sailing off across the Atlantic. A few weeks later Bellevue offered to publish it. Being agentless—not that I’d planned it that way—meant that I had to navigate my own way through the publishing process, but being with a small and prestigious press you’ll always get talking to the person you want to. (from the Irish Times)

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Bessora and Barroux’s Alpha: Abidjan to Paris is a beautifully told and illustrated graphic novel humanizing the urgent migrant crisis.