We are thrilled to announce the 2024 Electric Book Award Winner and Finalists! From more than 400 manuscripts of all types, lengths, styles, and genres submitted to Alternating Current Press for the book prize, we’ve narrowed the first round of reading down to this shortlist of finalists and selected a winner. Congrats to all of these authors, whose manuscripts will be offered publication by Alternating Current Press. The winner and all finalists will have the opportunity to join our 2026 through 2027 publishing seasons. Congrats to the winner and finalists!

Winner!

• Cleavage by Wendy Mannis Scher

Fiction Finalist

• Love Is Where You Find It by F. David Bolton

Poetry Finalists

• Orphan’s Antonym by Jennifer Brown
• The Life Cycle of Cruelty by Kai-Lilly Karpman

Thanks to these authors for placing their incredible work in our hands. Congratulations to the winner and finalist selections, and we can’t wait to share your books with our enthusiastic readers.

For the visually impaired or those using TTS reading aids: this is the end of the announcement.

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