Book Award News
CORA’S KITCHEN has been named a winner in the 25th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Foreword Reviews is a book review journal focusing on independently published books. Its INDIES Book of the Year Awards recognize the best books published in 2022 from independent and university presses, as well as self-published authors. For this year’s competition, over 2,600 entries were submitted in 55 categories, with Foreword’s editors choosing the finalists. Those titles were then mailed to individual librarians and booksellers charged with picking the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorable Mention winners.
Book Award News
CORA’S KITCHEN was the 2022 Story Circle’s Sarton Women’s Book Award winner for Historical Fiction.
The Sarton Award is named in honor May Saton, who is remembered for her outstanding contributions to women’s literature as a memoirist, novelist, and poet. Sarton’s memoirs, novels, and nonfiction books are distinguished by the compelling ways they honor the lives of women and girls.
Cora’s Kitchen is a finalist for the 2022 Foreword Reviews INDIE Award for Multicultural Fiction book of the year and is shortlisted for the 2022 Story Circle Network Sarton Award for Historical Fiction.
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KIMBERLY GARRETT BROWN is Publisher and Executive Editor of Minerva Rising Press, a literary press dedicated to publishing women writers. Her best-selling debut novel, Cora’s Kitchen, won the 2022 Story Circle Network Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction and the 2022 Bronze Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for multicultural fiction. Her work has appeared in Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Collection of Essays, Poems and Personal Narratives, The Feminine Collective, Compass Literary Magazine, Today’s Chicago Woman, Chicago Tribune, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA at Goddard College. She currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida.