NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS
CELEBRATING SELF & INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING EXCELLENCE
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18th Annual Jurors Choice Award
The Indie Excellence® Jurors Choice Award honors titles embodying the spirit of the competition as chosen by a celebrated author. The award consists of unrestricted of funds (though we suggest it be used for future marketing, distribution and PR efforts).
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2024 Juror's Prize: Three Awards at $500.00 each
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The 18th Annual Juror's Choice Prize will be awarded by Ben Loory.
Ben Loory's first book, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin, 2011), was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program, and his second book, Tales of Falling and Flying (Penguin, 2017), was named a Favorite Book of the Year by the staff of the Paris Review, and one of the 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Esquire Magazine. Loory's fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, Fairy Tale Review, Bomb Magazine, and Electric Literature, and been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts. He lives and teaches short story writing in Los Angeles.
Find him at benloory.com