JAMES WADE
OM JAMES
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James Wade bor og skriver i Texas Hill Country med sin kone og datter. Han er forfatter til Flod, syng ud og All Things Left Wild , en vinder af den prestigefyldte MPIBA Reading the West Award for debutfiktion, og en modtager af Spur Award for bedste historiske roman fra Western Writers of America.
Repræsenteret af Mark Gottlieb hos Trident Media Group .
Priser og æresbevisninger:
Vinder af 2021 Reading the West Award for bedste debutroman (ALL THINGS LEFT WILD)
Vinder af Spur Award 2021 for bedste historiske fiktion (ALL THINGS LEFT WILD)
En vinder af 2016 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest (Historical Fiction)
En finalist i 2016 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest (Thriller)
En finalist i 2016 Tethered By Letters Short Story Contest
Hæderlig omtale i 2016 Texas Observer Short Story Contest
Hæderlig omtale i 2015 Texas Observer Short Story Contest
Værk af James kan findes i følgende publikationer og antologier:
Den bitre oleander | Skylark Review (Little Lantern Press) | Tall...ish (Pure Slush Books) | Intrinsick Magazine | Dime Show anmeldelse | Bartleby Snopes | Jersey Devil Press | Typehouse Magazine | Efter pausejournalen | JJ Outre anmeldelse | Potluck Magazine | Gul stol gennemgang | Gennem hullerne | Eunoia anmeldelse
NOVELS AND AWARDS
Novels
Narrow the Road – Blackstone Publishing (2025)
• Starred Review – Publishers Weekly (2025)
• Western Heritage Award – Western Heritage Museum (2026)
• Editor’s Choice – Historical Novel Society (2025)
• Summer Reading Selection – Garden & Gun Magazine (2025)
• Best Texas Travel Novels – Austin American Statesman (2025)
• Summer Reading List – Texas Highways Magazine (2025)
Hollow Out the Dark – Blackstone Publishing (2024)
• Lariat List – Texas Library Association (2026)
• Favorite Indies List – Barnes and Noble (2024)
Beasts of the Earth – Blackstone Publishing (2022)
• Spur Award – Contemporary Novel – Western Writers of America (2023)
• Best Southern Books – Southern Review of Books (2022)
• Best Books Fall/Winter – Deep South Magazine (2022)
River, Sing Out – Blackstone Publishing (2021)
• Best Books of the Summer – Deep South Magazine (2020)
• Favorite Indies List – Barnes and Noble (2021)
All Things Left Wild – Blackstone Publishing (2020)
• Spur Award – Historical Fiction – Western Writers of America (2021)
• Reading the West Award – Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (2021)
• 1,001 Novels: A Library of American – Los Angeles Times
• Mayor’s Book Club Selection – Austin Public Libraries (2020)
• Compelling Historical Fiction List – PopSugar (2021)
• Most Influential Westerns of the 21st Century – True West Magazine (2021)
Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships
• Inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters (Spring 2026)
• Dobie Paisano Fellowship – The University of Texas at Austin (Spring 2026)
• Distinguished Visiting Writer Fellowship and Workshop Director – Stephen F. Austin State University (2025)
• Fiction Workshop Director and Guest Lecturer – Larry McMurtry Literary Center (2026)
• Rose Trip Scholar – Texas State University (2024)
• CD Marshall Scholar – Texas State University (2026)
• 4 x Finalist for Best Writer in Austin – Austin Chronicle’s “Best Of” (2022-2025)
• Best Historical Fiction Manuscript – Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Contest (2016)