A Rush of Honors
This spring held some incredible accolades for two of our Book Project mentors. Last month, when the Pulitzer Prizes were announced, we donned party hats for Vauhini Vara, who was a finalist in fiction for her debut novel, The Immortal King Rao. Weeks earlier, Erika Krouse traveled to New York to receive the Edgar Award in Crime Writing for Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Personal Investigation. Cheers, you two!
Back home, both writers kept the celebration going by winning top honors for their categories (fiction and creative nonfiction) at the Colorado Book Awards, along with anthology category winner Cynthia Swanson, editor of Denver Noir, which features Lighthouse instructors and members David Wanbli Heska Weiden, Erika Wurth, R. Alan Brooks, Twanna LaTrice Hill, Amy Drayer, and Mario Acevedo. Member Katherine Indermaur won the poetry category for I/I, and member Christina Holbrook won the romance category for All the Flowers in the Mountain. Christina shared, “One of the important resources that got me to the finish line with my novel was the class I took with Rachel Weaver.”
