2024 Clara Johnson Awards Nominations

Jane's Stories Press Foundation announces that nominations are open for the 2024 Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature. This award will be bestowed to a book published in 2023 which bears the attributes of the award’s namesake, and its winner will be awarded $1000. The 2024 Clara Johnson Award Ceremony will be held in October … Continue reading 2024 Clara Johnson Awards Nominations

2023 Clara Johnson Award Winner: Taylor Harris

Taylor Harris is winner of the 2023 Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature for her compelling memoir, This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown. Harris’s stunning memoir is a story about motherhood, the American medical establishment, the American education system, special education, race, and gender in America. Throughout the … Continue reading 2023 Clara Johnson Award Winner: Taylor Harris

2022 Clara Johnson Award Ceremony

https://videopress.com/v/Wd94DVAz?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Click to watch JSPF's President Susan Winstead and Vice President Teri Lavelle talk with author Diane Wilson about her amazing, award-winning book, The Seed Keeper. The book is available at brick-and-mortar and online bookstores, and directly from the publisher at milkweed.org.

2022 Clara Johnson Award Winner: Diane Wilson

Jane’s Stories Press Foundation is very excited to announce Diane Wilson as the winner ofthe 2022 Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature for her seminal novel: The Seed Keeper.Wilson’s novel is groundbreaking in its ability to weave a braid about one Native American woman’s journey to understand herself, and her family’s legacy through the preservation … Continue reading 2022 Clara Johnson Award Winner: Diane Wilson

Celebrate Past Clara Johnson Award Winners

The Clara Johnson Award for Women's Literature has been awarded annually since 2018. Here are the previous winners. Sue William Silverman is the author of How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences and the 2021 winner. See Sue's interview on the Jane's Stories Press Foundation YouTube channel. Dina Nayeri is the author of The Ungrateful … Continue reading Celebrate Past Clara Johnson Award Winners