JAMES WADE
SU JAMES
Photo credit: Madelinne Grey
James Wade vive e scrive nel Texas Hill Country con sua moglie e sua figlia. È l'autore di River, canta e All Things Left Wild , vincitore del prestigioso MPIBA Reading the West Award for Debut Fiction e destinatario dello Spur Award per il miglior romanzo storico dagli scrittori occidentali d'America.
Rappresentato da Mark Gottlieb con Trident Media Group .
Premi e riconoscimenti:
Vincitore del premio Reading the West 2021 per il miglior romanzo d'esordio (ALL THINGS LEFT WILD)
Vincitore dello Spur Award 2021 per la migliore narrativa storica (ALL THINGS LEFT WILD)
Un vincitore del 2016 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest (Historical Fiction)
Un finalista del 2016 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest (Thriller)
Un finalista del concorso di racconti 2016 Tethered By Letters
Menzione d'onore al Texas Observer Short Story Contest 2016
Menzione d'onore al Texas Observer Short Story Contest 2015
Il lavoro di James può essere trovato nelle seguenti Pubblicazioni e Antologie:
L'oleandro amaro | Recensione Skylark (Little Lantern Press) | Alto... ish (Pure Slush Books) | Rivista Intrinseca | Dime Show Recensione | Bartleby Snope | Jersey Devil Press | Rivista Typehouse | Dopo il diario di pausa | Recensione di JJ Outre | Rivista Potluck | Recensione della sedia gialla | Attraverso le lacune | Recensione Eunoia
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)