Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher. 

AWARDS

  • Marianne Worthington’s Larger Bodies Than Mine was the WINNER OF THE 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association.  Past winners include James Still, George Ella Lyon, Charles Frazier, Robert Morgan and Lee Smith.  
  • Tania Runyan's poetry collection Delicious Air was the WINNER OF THE 2007 Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature Belles Lettres . Previous winners include: Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being ( Farrar, Straus), Arthur Kirsch, Auden and Christianity (Yale University Press); Michael Joseph Colacurcio, The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales ( Harvard University Press); Susannah Brietz Monta, Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England, (Cambridge University Press); Harriet Guest,  A Form of Sound Words: The Religious Poetry of Christopher Smart, ( Oxford University Press), among others.  This nomination can only come from the publisher, and is awarded for a book that has "contributed most to the dialogue between literature and the Christian faith. " (Please note that Finishing Line Press is open to submissions from peoples of all faiths, and has published poets from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds.)
  • Anne Wilson's poetry collection SOLEA! was theWINNER of the San Diego Book Award for "a book of poetry."
  • Brenda Kay Ledford's poetry collection Shew Bird Mountain was the WINNER OF THE 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD. The Paul Green Multimedia Award is given by the North Carolina Society of Historians.
  • Kaye Bache-Snyder's poetry collection PINNACLES AND PLAINS was the WINNER of first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse.
  • Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s chapbook Tracings was the WINNER of the Silver Award for Excellence by the Military Writers Society of America.
  • Frederick Smock's poetry collection Sonnets, was a finalist in poetry in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry. The award for poetry was given to Jeff Worley for Happy Hour at the Two Keys Tavern (Mid-List Press).  Jeff is also the author of the chapbook Leave Time (Finishing Line Press).   (Portions of Leave Time are included in the above  full- length collection.) Jeff received a cash prize of $1,000.
  • Linda Annas Ferguson’s chapbook Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk won an honorable mention in the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Book Award of the Poetry Council of NC.