JAMES WADE
OVER JAMES
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James Wade woont en schrijft in Texas Hill Country met zijn vrouw en dochter. Hij is de auteur van Rivier, Zing Uit en All Things Left Wild , winnaar van de prestigieuze MPIBA Reading the West Award voor debuutfictie, en ontvanger van de Spur Award voor beste historische roman van de westerse schrijvers van Amerika.
Vertegenwoordigd door Mark Gottlieb bij Trident Media Group .
Prijzen en onderscheidingen:
Winnaar van de Reading the West Award 2021 voor beste debuutroman (ALL THINGS LEFT WILD)
Winnaar van de 2021 Spur Award voor beste historische fictie (ALL THINGS LEFT WILD)
Een winnaar van de 2016 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest (historische fictie)
Een finalist van de 2016 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest (Thriller)
Een finalist van de Tethered By Letters Short Story Contest 2016
Eervolle vermelding in de Texas Observer Short Story Contest 2016
Eervolle vermelding in de Texas Observer Short Story Contest 2015
Werk van James is te vinden in de volgende publicaties en bloemlezingen:
De bittere oleander | Skylark Review (Little Lantern Press) | Tall...ish (Pure Slush Books) | Intrinsiek tijdschrift | Dime Show Review | Bartleby Snopes | Jersey Devil Press | Typehuis Tijdschrift | Na het Pauze Journaal | JJ Outre Beoordeling | Potluck Magazine | Gele stoel recensie | Door de gaten | Eunoia-recensie
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)