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Sarah Kasbeer wins 2019 Zone 3 Creative Nonfiction Book Award

Sarah Kasbeer’s collection of essays “A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man” recently was named winner of the 2019 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Kasbeer will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2020.

(Posted Sept. 17, 2019)

Sarah Kasbeer’s collection of essays “A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man” recently was named winner of the 2019 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Kasbeer will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2020. 

Alice Bolin, author of “Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession,” served as the final judge in the biennial contest. This year’s runner-up is Lesley Jenike for her “High Fox and All After.”

Kasbeer is an essayist and fiction writer based in New York City. Her work appears in Creative Nonfiction, Dissent, Elle, Guernica, Longreads, New York Magazine, The Normal School, The Rumpus, Vice and many other places. Her writing has received notable mention by the Best American Essays and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

“A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man” is her first book. Learn more at www.sarahkasbeer.com.

Finalists included:

Zone 3 Press

Zone 3 Press is a nonprofit literary press dedicated to publishing and promoting the work of emerging writers.

The press sponsors book contests in poetry and nonfiction: the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry and the Zone 3 Creative Nonfiction Book Award.

Winners receive $1,000 and book publication, as well as an invitation to give a reading at APSU with the contest judge.

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