Poetry Finalists

What the River Knows by Grace Yang
The Shape of Your Indent by Hannah Watson
The Ketamine Lessons: Lesson the 83rd by Janine Inez
Just Black Enough by Jasmine Troutt
Like a Poem by JB Frady
Cuesta Pisar la Palta by Magalí Clazón
Void by Michael Miller
Poppy Field by Sharla Dawn
Sonnet 36 by Uncle Dom

Adult Fiction Finalists

Half-Life Horizon by Bruce Rettig
Sorry Cakes by Catherine Forster
Bitch Coyote by Jen Eve Thorn
Babe in the Hearth by Kate Spires
The Man Tree by Kayla Ogden
Shadowed by Death by Mary Adler
Overcast by MFC Feeley
The Black Year by Mimi Drop
Laurel and the Man of Many Hands by Oscar King IV

Adult Nonfiction Finalists

Changing Woman Speaks: From Lost to Found in the Navajo Beauty Way by Brenda Kay Beck
Nasty Eggs by Chris Zamani
Midnight Mantras by Chris Zamani
Lost and Found, Prologue of Seven Stitches in Neverland: A Daughter, Her Homeless Mother, and the Peter Pan Costumes that Mended the Past by Donna Stevens Kehl
Menopause Showdown by Laura O. Bergman
Lesbian, Who Are You? by Nikki K. Lopez
Embrace Your Roots and Let Them Fuel Your Strength by Richa Chadha
Joy by Susan Eriksson
HIDDEN... Under My Rice by Rita Turner

Children's and Young Adult Finalists

Andrea Jones and the White Salon by Patrik Lundh
Jules and Ivy by Chloe Kerr-Stein
Monarch by Emily King
Home Is Where the Cauldron Is by Blair Visscher
Ixle Island by Kyra Ashwood
Fairshade by Oscar King IV
Lying in Plainview by Rebecca Perez Lang & Jennie Burke
Emilio and the Fourth of July BOOM! by Romilda Byrd
Loss by Selam