List: Townsend Nominees

We’re getting close to the Townsend Prize for Fiction: April 26th. Nominees were announced in January:

The 2012 finalists are:

• Daniel Black for Perfect Peace, St Martin’s Press

• Lynn Cullen for Reign Of Madness, G.P. Putnam’s Sons

• Ann Hite for Ghost on Black Mountain, Gallery Books

• Joshilyn Jackson for Backseat Saints, Grand Central Publishing

• Collin Kelley for Remain In Light, Vanilla Heart Publishing

• Thomas Mullen for The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Random House

• Andrew Plattner for A Marriage of Convenience, BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City

• Josh Russell for My Bright Midnight, Louisiana State University Press

• Joseph Skibell for A Curable Romantic, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

• Amanda Kyle Williams for The Stranger You Seek, Bantam Books

Are you a Georgia writer with a book coming out (or that has been released) in 2012? Leave a note in the comments and we’ll add you to our “List: 2012 Books from Georgia Writers.” Thanks for reading.