CLARKSVILLE, Tenn (ClarksvilleNow) – Austin Peay State University’s Zone 3 literary Press has announced the winner of their 2019 Creative Nonfiction Book Award.
This year’s winner is Sarah Kasbeer for her collection of essays, “A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man.” Kasbeer will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2020.
Alice Bolin, the author of “Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession,” served as the final judge in the biennial contest. This year’s runner-up is Lesley Jenike for her piece, “High Fox and All After.”
Kasbeer is an essayist and fiction writer based in New York City. Her work appears in Creative Nonfiction, Dissent, Elle, Guernica, Longreads, New York Magazine, The Normal School, The Rumpus, Vice and many other places. Her writing has received notable mention by the Best American Essays and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man” is her first book. Learn more at www.sarahkasbeer.com.
Zone 3 Press is a nonprofit literary press dedicated to publishing and promoting the work of emerging writers.
The press sponsors book contests in poetry and nonfiction: the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry and the Zone 3 Creative Nonfiction Book Award.
Winners receive $1,000 and book publication, as well as an invitation to give a reading at APSU with the contest judge.
To learn more about the Zone 3 Press, visit them online.