The Story Circle Network has announced the winners of its 2022 Sarton and Gilda Women's Book Awards, which are open to women authors whose work is published in English in the U.S. and Canada. Winners receive a cash prize of $100, a commemorative award, gold seals, and a virtual seal for their websites, as well as advertising in SCN’s e-letters and website and a year's membership in SCN. This year's winners are:
Sarton Award
Memoir: Chasing Zebras by Margaret Nowaczyk
Contemporary fiction: Blurred Fates by Anastasia Zadeik
Historical fiction: Cora’s Kitchen by Kimberley Brown
Nonfiction: Manifesting Justice by Valena Beety
Gilda Prize
Yes Again by Sallie H. Weissinger
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Finalists have been named for the 2023 Plutarch Award, given by the Biographers International Organization for the best biography of 2022. The winner will be announced during the 13th annual BIO Conference on May 20 in New York City. The finalists:
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage (Viking)
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century by Jennifer Homans (Random House)
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham (Random House)
George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley (HarperCollins)
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)