In Fiction Category– Maggie O’Farrell – for the ‘Hamnet’
In Nonfiction Category– Tom Zoellner – for the ‘Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire’
In Poetry Category– Francine j. harris – for the ‘Here Is the Sweet Hand’
In Autobiography Category– Cathy Park Hong- for the ‘Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning’
In Biography Category– Amy Stanley- for the ‘Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World’
In Criticism Category– Nicole Fleetwood- for the ‘Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration’
John Leonard Prize (for best first book): Debut author Raven Leilani, for the Novel ‘Luster’
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: The Feminist Press, at the City University of New York
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Jo Livingstone, Writer at the New Republic