Announcing the Results of the 2023 Joshua Tree Novel Prize

This year we had an unexpectedly large number of entries and many of the entries we received were intriguing and well written. We have accepted one winner for the prize and publication, and we will publish three additional entries from the manuscripts submitted.

The winner of the 2023 Joshua Tree Novel Prize contest is

WIND-IN-TREES by Arthur Doweyko.

The three other novels we will publish are:
SOCKWORLD by Cary Grossman
TSH by Jen Knox
AIN’T NEVER NO SNOW IN ATLANTIS by Bobby Burnett Lee

Congratulations to the winner and the runners-up.
And thank you to everyone who entered–you made the judges’ job a tough one!

Entries to the Joshua Tree Novel Prize contest included a roughly 400-word critique/analysis. We have completed slightly more than half of these. We are attempting to do the most thorough job possible, but we are short-handed right now, going through a transition of management. That said,  we hope to have all these critiques finished by the end of the year.  Although, realistically, it will probably be closer to the end of January before all of them have been analyzed and sent out.

If you have not received your critique please bear with us. We will get it done and we will get it to you.

Thanks again for participating in the inaugural Joshua Tree Novel Prize contest.

We may revisit this contest in 2024, It will be up to the new Executive Director of Kallisto Gaia Press as I am retiring.

Thank you for supporting independent literary organizations.
Have a lovely holiday season.
Tony Burnett (no relation to Bobby Lee)
Contest Coordinator