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2023 Fox Cities Reads Events
Scary Story Writing Contest Finalists
Winners will be announced soon! Prizes will be awarded to the top story in each age bracket.
- Children
- Silas Rain Fenn
- Matty Nitschke
- Camilla Hubert
- Teen
- Elena L. Eubank
- Isabella Eggers
- Josephine Starck
- Adult
- Angela Yu
- Richie Zaborowske
- Jill Harman
- Shirley J. Heinz
Past Fox Cities Reads Authors
2022
Tommy Orange, There There
Dawn Quigley, Apple in the Middle
Alex Gino, George
2020
Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer
2019
Dr. Matthew Desmond, Evicted
2018
Ruta Sepetys, Salt To The Sea
2017
Sharon Draper, Stella By Starlight
2016
David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
2015
Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train
2014
R. J. Palacio, Wonder
2013
Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder and The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder
2012
Bill Strickland, Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
2011
Luis Alberto Urrea, Into the Beautiful North and The Devil’s Highway
2010
Lesley Kagen, Whistling in the Dark
2009
Michael Perry, Off Main Street, Population: 485, and Truck
2008
Alice Hoffman, Blackbird House and Green Angel
2007
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed