We are so very pleased to announce the finalists for 2022 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA)!
Join us for Florida WritersCon 2022 and the Royal Palm Literary Awards Banquet and enjoy a weekend of reconnecting with writer friends and making new ones, networking with authors and publishing industry professionals, learning from experts, an open mic, and more.
Learn who takes home a Royal Palm Literary Award!
Melissa Abrehamsen
I’ve Got a Secret
Reinfred Dziedzorm Addo
The Dedicadas
Doug Alderson
Florida’s Rivers: A Celebration of the Sunshine State’s Dynamic Waterways
Gerri Almand
Slab City: A Revolution Within?
Rita Angelini
As Normal Changes
Paul Anthony
Sorrow: The Legacy of Cio-Cio-San
The Shooting Gallery
Austin J. Bell
A Hermit’s Handywork
From Lantern Slides to Snapchat: The Key Marco Collection Rediscovered
Lauren Beltz
Toeing the Line
Jennifer Bjork
The Whistling Galilean: Shai’s Journey
Thornton W. Blease
The Rise of Ninja Cat
Wingfinger of Dragon Valley
Rita M. Boehm
My Therapist Eats Hay
Becky Bohan
The Santorini Setup
J.C. Bruce
Florida Man
Get Strange
Jill Morgan Clark
Where Do Balloons Land?
Nancy J. Cohen
Styled for Murder
Eileen Vorbach Collins
Hold On Till the Sun Goes Down: Essays of Love and Loss
Robin Collison
Maruchi’s Tangerine Dreams
Scott Corey
Whistling for Hippos
Bette Lee Crosby
The Fault Between Us
When I Last Saw You
Shutta Crum
Blink! Blink!
How Poetry Reframes the Moment
Lesser Jewels
Patricia Crumpler
Captive Attraction
Dianna Dann
Pari and the Ghost Whisperer
L. H. Davis
The Dead Can Be Stubborn
George R. Dekle, Sr.
The Cattle Rustler
The East River Ripper: The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare
William Delia
Remember Who You Are
Susan Dobson
The Sea Glass Road
T. Michael Doyle
Valentine Days
Jessie Erwin
Boots
Joni M. Fisher
East of Evil
Dan Fuchs
Dr. Muller’s Next Move
Sergio the Ninja
Clay Gish
Prairie Rose
Allen Gorney
Crafting and Revising Dialogue
Rick Greenberg
Silent Valor
J. L. Hagen
Runtley Goes Rogue
Mark G. Hammerschick
Let My People Go
The One
Joan J. Harris
Poof the Magic Dragon
Arielle Haughee
Sixth Sunday
Rebecca Heflin
A Season to Remember
Sarah Hendess
Second Chances in Hollywood
Kim A. Holland
City Elemental
Judy Harmon Holmes
Responsible Kids: Six Steps to Creating Them in an Irresponsible World
Doc Honour
Fishing Hands
Gail Hulnick
Sleeping Dogs Lie
Elle E. Ire
Dead Woman’s Pond
Jacque Jacobs
High on a Mountain
Claire M. Johnson
Fog City
Sharon Keller Johnson
Suggs in Space
Shirley Jones
Daddy’s Best Helper
The Circus
The Last Free Ride 1969
J.C. Kato
Three Horses For the Mikado: When Ulysses Grant Sailed to Japan
Ian Kirkpatrick
Boom, Boom, Boom
Alice Klaxton
A Seafaring Reverie
Kathryn I. Knight
Finding Family Treasure
Susan Koehler
Nobody Kills Uncle Buster and Gets Away With It
Linda Kraus
Cuban Postcards
Riding the Rails
Peggy Sias Lantz
Adventure Tales from Florida’s Past
Walter E. Ledwith
The Queen of the Everglades
Loren Leith
The Go Girl
Winifred Gains
Stephen Leitschuh
Twenty-One Days And A Wake Up
Samantha Leslie
Gone but in Memory
Lynne Marie
American Pie
Meredith Rutter Marple
I Live You Forever
T. Milton Mayer
Quantum
Dave McKeon
Ignorance Isn’t Bliss
Phyllis McKinley
Heavenly Hockey!
MDMcKai
It Takes a Rocket Scientist
George August Meier
A Sordid Evening at the Old Victorian
The Sweet Smell of Plantains
Isabel Mestey-Colon
Icarus
Mandy Miller
States of Grace
Dalton Mire
Bed, Bath and Definitely Beyond
The Geisha In The Attic
Amy Mouharir
Cous Cous the Moroccan Cat Finds His Calm
Daphne Nikolopoulos
My Daughter’s Mother
Jack O’Brien
Joe Beard
The Chateau
Bonnie T. Ogle
Miranda and the Golden Frogs
Donna Parrey
Sixties: A Journey Through and To
Craig Pennington
The Heart of the Run
Al Pessin
Body Man
Shock Wave
Writing Blogs
Barbara Rein
Shelf Life
The Wrenbows
Allan Kalman Roit
Introduction to Life
Peter G. Roode, M.D.
Have Scalpel—Will Travel
William S. Russell
Shallow Water Predator
Kaye D. Schmitz
The Road Remembered
Jeff Seeley
Mission Omission: Exposing Invisible Lies and the Ace pp Evil’s Sleeve
Linda R. Sexton
The Branches We Cherish
Ben Sharpton
The Awakening of Jim Bishop: This Changes Things
A. R. Silverberry
Cerberus: Tales of Magic and Malice
K. L. Small
A Dress to Remember
Lorraine Solheim
A Distant Light
Joan S. Sosin
What I Wanted
M. S. Spencer
Hidden Gem: The Secret of St. Augustine
David Spiegel
Equations
The Old Man
Athena Spiska
Carpe Diem
Dana J. Summers
Dirty Hazel and the Cat Woman
T. J. Swift
Little Brother
Elaine Viets
We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About
Mary T. Wagner
Hunter’s Moon
Turning a Kitty Corner
Nina Ward
Mourning of the Breasts
Paul Wartenberg
Hark! A Ranking of Nirvana Albums
Irrational
Julie Weary
Hereafter
WinLoseorDraw
Publishing World
Jane R. Wood
Finding Family Treasure
