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PRESENTING EXTRAORDINARY LITERARY TALENTS SINCE 1990

Discover Great New Writers was founded in 1990

A program that recognize and highlights books of exceptional literary quality from authors at the start of their careers. A small group of Barnes & Noble bookseller volunteers convenes year-round to review submissions to the program and handpick titles for promotion, currently featured at 700+ Barnes & Noble and 100 prominent Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, and online @B&N.com/discover.


Annually, Barnes & Noble recognize two exceptional writers with the Discover Great New Writers Award (one each for Fiction and Non-fiction). In addition to a $10,000 prize, Barnes & Noble promotes the winning titles extensively in Barnes & Noble stores and online. Previous recipients of the Discover Award include Monica Ali, Eric Blehm, Tracy Chevalier, Joshua Ferris, Ben Fountain, Chang-rae Lee, Elizabeth McCracken, David Sheff, and Hampton Sides, among others.
            The 2012 Discover Great New Writers Award Winner ~ Non-fiction:
             Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail; An Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.

 
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir:
 the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed.

From the Publisher;  “A rich, riveting true story . . . During her grueling three-month journey, Strayed circled around black bears and rattlesnakes, fought extreme dehydration by drinking oily gray pond water, and hiked in boots made entirely of duct tape.

 Cheryl Strayed is the author of Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar and the novel Torch. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, The Rumpus, Self, The Missouri Review, The Sun, and The Best American Essays. She lives in Portland, Oregon.


 The Winner for Fiction: The Orchardist. A Novel by Amanda Coplin;
 Transcribing America as it once was before railways and roads connected its corners, Amanda Coplin weaves a tapestry of solitary souls who come together in the wake of unspeakable cruelty and misfortune. She writes with breathtaking precision and empathy, and in The Orchardist she crafts an astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in.
                                   "Well Read" S1; Ep. 24 -- Amanda Coplin, "The Orchardist"


                                        "THE ORCHARDIST is an outstanding debut."
  Amanda Coplin has depicted her northwestern landscape with such fidelity that readers will know its every sight, smell, and sound. Within this world are compelling characters and their equally compelling stories.--Ron Rash
                       The New York Times Book Review;
Many contemporary novelists have revisited the question of what constitutes a family, but few have responded in a voice as resolute and fiercely poetic., —Jan Stuart

Amanda Coplin was born in Wenatchee, Washington. She received her BA from the University of Oregon and MFA from the University of Minnesota. A recipient of residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Omi International Arts Center at Ledig House in Ghent, New York, she lives in Portland, Oregon.


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